Rajasthan Royals opt to bowl; Pawan Negi, Kulwant Khejroliya in for Royal Challengers Bangalore

Toss Rajasthan Royals chose to bowl v Royal Challengers Bangalore

Rajasthan Royals captain Steven Smith chose to field after winning the toss against Royal Challengers Bangalore. His opposite number Virat Kohli, who rued his luck at losing the tenth toss in the tournament, said that he would have preferred to chase given the dew factor.

Royals dropped Ashton Turner and included Mahipal Lomror, the 19-year-old allrounder, who is making his IPL debut.

Royal Challengers brought in Pawan Negi and Kulwant Khejroliya, by dropping Shivam Dube and Washington Sundar.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Parthiv Patel (wk), 2 Virat Kohli (capt), 3 AB de Villiers, 4 Heinrich Klaasen, 5 Gurkeerat Singh, 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 Kulwant Khejroliya, 8 Pawan Negi, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Navdeep Saini

Rajasthan Royals: 1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Liam Livingstone, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Sanju Samson (wk), 5 Mahipal Lomror, 6 Riyan Parag, 7 Stuart Binny, 8 Shreyas Gopal, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Varun Aaron, 11 Oshane Thomas

Source: ESPN Crickinfo

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