Chennai, Mar 28 (UNI) Five time champions and home favourites Chennai Super Kings
(CSK) won the toss and decided to bowl first against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
in their second IPL cricket match at the M A Chidambaram Stadium here on Friday night.
Both teams have started their campaign winning their opening matches and have made
one change each from their previous XI.
CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad won his second successive toss and as expected chose
to bowl first.
CSK has made one change from the XI that defeated Mumbai Indians on March 23 in
their first match, bringing in pacer Matheesha Pathirana in place of Nathan Ellis.
RCB Skipper Rajat Patidar too made one change, bringing in the experienced Bhuvaneshwar
Kumar for Rasikh Salam.
Teams :
RCB : Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (capt), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh
Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
Impact Players : Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh.
CSK : Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), Deepak Hooda, Sam Curran,
Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wk), R Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Matheesha Pathirana, Khaleel Ahmed.
Impact Players : Shivam Dube, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Vijay Shankar, Jamie Overton, Shaik Rasheed.
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