The Royal Challengers Bengaluru will look to turn around their home form as they face a struggling Rajasthan Royals in the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Thursday. The outfit that has been blasting opposition all around the country has had a rotten luck at home, losing all three matches here. They are coming off a big win over Punjab Kings and will likely persist with the same 11.
Rajasthan, meanwhile, will be without their captain Sanju Samson who will be out of this match as well after missing out in their last match against . That means that Riyan Parag will have to don the skipper’s mantle again and looking at the surface at Chinnaswamy, which has been uncharacteristically favouring bowlers this season, they might opt to bring in Kwena Maphaka in place of Maheesh Theekshana.
: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Riyan Parag (c), Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurel (wk), , Wandindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana/Kwena Maphaka, , Tushar Deshpande
Impact sub: Shubham Dubey
: Phil Salt, , , Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Romario Shepherd, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, , Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood
Impact sub: Suyash Sharma
: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Liam Livingstone, Nuwan Thushara, Lungi Ngidi, Mohit Rathee, Swastik Chikara, Abhinandan Singh.
: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag(c), Dhruv Jurel(w), Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kunal Singh Rathore, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Maphaka, Ashok Sharma.
