IPL 2026 – RCB bowl; still no Hardik for MI
Toss Royal Challengers Bengaluru selected to bowl vs Mumbai Indians
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 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
