Toss Gujarat Titans opt to bowl vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill chose to bowl against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Ahmedabad. Both teams were unchanged.
With RCB opener Phil Salt still recovering from injury, Jacob Bethell will continue to open in his place along with Virat Kohli. Seamer Rasikh Dar is the likeliest player to come in from the Impact Subs bench for RCB when they bowl later in the evening.
Prasidh Krishna or Ashok Sharma didn’t feature in GT’s bowl-first XI, with left-arm seamer Arshad Khan retaining his place in the team. Neither bowler was part of the Impact Subs list. Rahul Tewatia is likely to step in as GT’s Impact Player when they chase.
The pitch had a covering of live grass, and Gill reckoned that it could aid swing in the powerplay. Patidar, though, felt that surface may not assist bowlers “too much”.
A win for RCB today will take them to the top of the points table.
Gujarat Titans: 1 Shubman Gill(capt), 2 B Sai Sudharsan, 3 Jos Buttler(wk), 4 Jason Holder, 5 M Shahrukh Khan, 6 Washington Sundar, 7 Arshad Khan, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Manav Suthar
Impact Subs: Rahul Tewatia, Glenn Phillips, Anuj Rawat, Nishant Sindhu, Kulwant Khejroliya
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Jacob Bethell, 3 Devdutt Padikkal, 4 Rajat Patidar(capt), 5 Jitesh Sharma(wk), 6 Tim David, 7 Romario Shepherd, 8 Krunal Pandya, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Suyash Sharma, 11 Josh Hazlewood
Impact Subs: Rasikh Dar, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Venkatesh Iyer
