IPL 2019: 54th Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Toss Report; Well, a lot at the stake for Sunrisers Hyderabad in tonight clash at Bangalore. They need to win the match in order to find themselves in the playoff spot, thanks for their superior Net-Run-Rate.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have nothing to lose in the game against SRH. However, they got a few reasons to win the game. One would be to give a good finish for their fans and the other is to take an act of revenge against Hyderabad for the loss in the initial stages of the tournament.
As far as the balance is concerned, Royal Challengers Bangalore got the top quality batting in their ranks while the absence of David Warner and Jonny Bairstow is hurting like none other for the team. All in all, it would be an interesting clash with a playoff berth at stake.
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Toss Report
The skipper of RCB Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to field first at M Chinnaswamy Stadium against the Kane Williamson-led side.
Here is what captains said:
Kane Williamson: We would have been bowling as well. Both of us haven’t won too many tosses, but now we need to bat well and put the runs on the board. Need to make small adjustments and hopefully we will put in a strong performances. One change for us, Yusuf Pathan replaces Abhishek Sharma.
Virat Kohli: We will bowl first. It feels amazing, no brainer about chasing, back to what we do best. We will play our hearts out for the fans, they are probably the most amazing lot in the IPL, we want to win it for them. CdG replaces Stoinis who has gone home, Sundar replaces Negi and Hetmyer gets a game, instead of Klaasen.
Playing XI:
RCB: Parthiv Patel(w), Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Colin de Grandhomme, Washington Sundar, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Yuzvendra Chahal
SRH: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Martin Guptill, Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson(c), Vijay Shankar, Yusuf Pathan, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, K Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi