RoyalChallengers Bangalore (RCB) won the toss and chose to bat against KolkataKnight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the M.A. ChidambaramStadium here on Sunday.
RCBcaptain Virat Kohli said that he expects the pitch to get slower as the matchprogresses.
Maxwellfifty helps Bangalore recover from early blows. At present RCB stands at 95/2against KKR.
"Thesurface looks better than the one we played on last time. We need enough runson the board. We're playing just three overseas players - (Dan) Christianmisses out and Rajat Patidar is back. He's a top player of spin. For us, it'sjust one game at a time and not want to be too bogged down about losses, whichwe have done in the past," said Kohli.
KKRcaptain Eoin Morgan said that they would have done the same. "We wouldhave probably looked to do the same thing. We've kept the same team - we haveplenty of options with bat and ball. We want to end the Chennai leg of thingson a high," said Morgan.
RCBsquad: : Virat Kohli (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell,AB de Villiers (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Rajat Patidar, Kyle Jamieson,Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.
KKRsquad: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Andre Russell, Eoin Morgan(captain), Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Shakib Al Hasan, Pat Cummins, PrasidhKrishna, Harbhajan Singh, Varun Chakravarthy.