IPL 2026 – RCB bowl; still no Hardik for MI

IPL 2026 – RCB bowl; still no Hardik for MI


Toss Royal Challengers Bengaluru selected to bowl vs Mumbai Indians

Rajat Patidarthe Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) captain, selected to bowl within the franchise’s first sport in Raipur, their second house for the season, in opposition to Mumbai Indians (MY). The match will likely be performed on a black-soil pitch with cracks on its floor; Patidar famous that it regarded “good” and “pretty hard”.

RCB named an unchanged squad from their defeat to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on Thursday, with Tim David within the beginning XI and Devdutt Padikkal dropping onto the Impact Player bench.

MI have been unchanged too, with Suryakumar Yadav main them within the continued absence of Hardik Pandya, who had missed their final sport in opposition to LSG with again spasms. With MI batting first right here, Rohit Sharma begins within the XI, with legspinner Raghu Sharma beginning on the bench.

MI are in ninth place and a defeat will put them out of competition for the playoffs. RCB are in fourth, and a win will put them high of the desk; they arrive into this sport on the again of defeats of their final two matches.

Mumbai Indians: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 3 Naman Dhir, 4 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Will Jacks, 7 Raj Bawa, 8 Corbin Bosch, 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 AM Ghazanfar, 11 Jasprit Bumrah Impact bench: Raghu Sharma, Mayank Rawat, Robin Minz, Shardul Thakur, Trent Boult

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Jacob Bethell, 3 Rajat Patidar (capt), 4 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 5 Tim David, 6 Romario Shepherd, 7 Krunal Pandya, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Josh Hazlewood, 10 Suyash Sharma, 11 Rasikh Salam Impact bench: Devdutt Padikkal, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Swapnil Singh, Venkatesh Iyer

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