Rajat Patidar gave the Royal Challengers Bengaluru followers an enormous shock as he didn’t flip up for the toss forward the IPL 2025 sport in opposition to SunRisers Hyderabad on Friday. Instead, Jitesh Sharma got here for the toss. Patidar is taking part in as an affect participant. Jitesh Sharma is main the Bengaluru aspect within the very important conflict, with Rajat Patidar coming in as an affect sub after having suffered a finger damage. Other than that, veteran batter Mayank Aggarwal is available in on the aspect, changing Devdutt Padikkal.
“It’s my first time captaining RCB. I captained PBKS against SRH last year. We are thinking to bowl first, want to take most of the surface from the moisture. We are looking forward to finish the league on top of the table and enter the playoffs. The management has taken care of the players. We have a good atmosphere and culture. We want to win every game and win the cup. Rajat Patidar is the impact player. Mayank comes in for Padikkal.” Jitesh stated.
SRH made three modifications with Travis Head, Abhinav Manohar and Jaydev Unadkat coming again to the taking part in XI.
RCB may very nicely transfer into the highest spot with a win on Friday, as Gujarat Titans have been handed a 33-run loss by Lucknow Super Giants on Thursday.
It was determined that RCB is not going to play their closing house fixture of the IPL on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium and can formally relocate this fixture to Lucknow after a yellow alert issued by the Indian Meteorological Department predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in Bengaluru till Thursday.
Teams: Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (c), Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Mayank Agarawal, Jitesh Sharma(wk/c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Lungi Ngidi, Suyash Sharma.
With IANS inputs
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