Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and decided to bowl first. Seeing the condition of the pitch after the rain, Ajinkya Rahane also said that if he had won the toss, he would have also decided to chase. Both the teams have decided to make one change each in their playing eleven.

RCB has included Venkatesh Iyer in the final-11 while keeping Romario Shepherd out of the playing eleven. On the other hand, Varun Chakraborty will not play in this match for Kolkata, who is injured. In his place, Saurabh Dubey has got a place in the playing eleven.

RCB’s playing eleven: Jacob Bethel, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Venkatesh Iyer, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salaam Dar, Jacob Duffy, Josh Hazlewood.

KKR’s playing eleven: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wicketkeeper), Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi.

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match started late

In this match being played in Raipur, the toss was delayed due to rain. Usually the toss takes place at 7 pm, but the toss of this match took place at 8:30 pm. The match started with a delay of one hour and 15 minutes.

Let us tell you that it is very important for both the teams to win this match. On one side is Kolkata Knight Riders, who will not accept anything less than victory because losing today’s match will deal a major blow to their playoff hopes. At the same time, Bengaluru would not want to be stuck in a dilemma of ifs and buts for the playoffs after losing.

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