Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Bangalore have won the toss and have elected to bowl first on a good hard wicket with some spongy bounce. Anil Kumble gave a sapling to visiting captain Dinesh Karthik as a symbol of his team’s support to the green campaign of IPL.
Speaking to Mike Haysman, Kumble says that he wanted to chase a total since it is easier to bat when you have a target in mind.
Kumble feels it’s a dry pitch but it won’t really matter in a forty over, day game. The batmen would enjoy batting here as the weather is quite pleasant.
Sunil Gavaskar chatted with Delhi captain Dinesh Karthik who was quite happy to lose the toss since he would have chosen to bat anyway. He feels since Sehwag is in rollicking form, a total in excess of 160 is what he was looking at.
Playing XI
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
Anil Kumble (captain), Manish Pandey, Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Virat Kohli, Mark Boucher (wk), Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Dale Steyn, Eoin Morgan, Rahul Dravid
Delhi Daredevils:
Dinesh Karthik (captain & wk),Virender Sehwag, David Warner, Mithun Manhas, AB de Villiers, Pradeep Sangwan, Dirk Nannes, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, KA Jadhav, Andrew McDonald
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