The Indian Premier League juggernaut will move to the Garden City of Bangalore on Monday (April 10) as home team Royal Challengers Bangalore lock horns against an in-form Lucknow Super Giants side.
RCB's winning start came to a halt as they were beaten by Kolkata Knight Riders in the last match. Lucknow Super Giants came back to winning terms in their last match as they saw off a depleted Sunrisers outfit.
RCB Team News vs LSG: RCB have roped in Wayne Parnell and Vijaykumar Vyshak as replacements for Reece Topley and Rajat Patidar. They had a batting disaster in the last match, and would be keen to make amends at home.
Faf du Plessis and the RCB think tank will be keen to make a couple of changes. Akash Deep may go out and Siddharth Kaul or Sonu Yadav can be slotted into the team. Shahbaz Ahmed also needs to step up as Mahipal Lomror and Manoj Bhandage are waiting in the wings.
LSG Team News vs RCB: Lucknow Super Giants came back rallying against SRH in the last match. Their squad is fully fit and KL Rahul and Gautam Gambhir won't mind going with the same team against RCB. But they will also be tempted to play Quinton de Kock, and in that case, Marcus Stoinis may have to be demoted to the bench.
LSG lost their last match on the road this season against CSK, and will be hoping for a turnaround around 400 km west of Chennai on Monday. The likes of Krishnappa Giwtham and Avesh Khan may be on the Impact Players bench as LSG look to win three out of their first four matches.
RCB Playing 11 vs LSG: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (C), Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik, Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Harshal Patel, Sonu Yadav, Mohammed Siraj
LSG Playing 11 vs RCB: KL Rahul (C), Kyle Mayers, Quinton de Kock, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Romario Shepherd, Amit Mishra, Yash Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Ravi Bishnoi
RCB Impact Players - Suyash Prabhudessai, Anuj Rawat, Siddharth Kaul, Akash Deep, Mahipal Lomror
LSG Impact Players - Ayush Badoni, Swapnil Singh, Daniel Sams, Avesh Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham