Mahesh Thekshana There will be no facility for Rajasthan Royals in his clash against Royal Challengers Bangalore at M Chinnavami Stadium on Thursday, 24 April.
All three disadvantages of RCB have come home in this season, and yet, they are fourth on the table with five wins. On the other hand, RR falls in this game behind four consecutive disadvantages. He is capable of winning two of the eight matches played so far and his merit is about to hang with a thread.
Toss update
Standby captain Ryan Parag won the toss and opted for the first field. He estimated the pitch to be better for batting with the progress of the game. Speaking on shot-selection and application, Rajat Patidar said that while discussing how Chinnaswamy has not played like this season.
Farooqi comes to Theekshana
Theekshana was a part of XI in all the games so far. However, he has been an expensive, accepting 9.56 per over. Fazalhaq Farooqi has played only two games for RR so far, both have proved expensive. However, the team management is understood that faith has been kept in the left hand seamor to come good against RCB.
What did the captains say?
Ryan Parag (Rajasthan Royals)
We will bowl first. The wicket looks a bit sticky and should be better later. It is now back to our morality, if we can give our 100 percent, then the results will take care of ourselves. Sanju (Samson) brother is recovering and hopefully he will return soon. A change for us. Theekshana is outside and is in Farooqi.
Rajat Patidar (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
We preferred to bowl earlier, the surface has been difficult and unexpected this season and we will try to customize as soon as possible. We have to be good in shot-selection. We are going with the same team.
Play xis
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Phil Salat, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (C), Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazelwood, Yash Dayal
Impact option: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salaam, Manoj Bhandej, Jacob Bethle, Swapnil Singh
Rajasthan Royals
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubam Dubey, Nitish Rana, Ryan Parag (C), Dhruv Jurael (WK), Shimron Hetmier, Vanindu Hasranga, Jofra Archer, Fazalhak Farooqui, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma
Impact option: Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikya, Kunal Singh Rathore
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