IPL 2024: Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the toss against Punjab Kings; choose to bowl first

The 6th match of the IPL 2024 season will be played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday, March 25, 2024. However, Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and opted to bowl first.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) started with a defeat against the defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the IPL 2024 campaign opener. On the other hand, Punjab Kings started with a comfortable win over Delhi Capitals. While RCB will try to get back in the winning zone, PBKS would like to continue their momentum as well. And, this is going to be an exciting match for both teams.

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Faf du Plessis: We are going to have a bowl. It looks a pretty good wicket but also because of the way our team is set up. You can say that RCB hasn’t won a trophy, but the ladies (RCBW) broke the sealing and hopefully that motivates us. The boys are excited for the season. In any game of cricket you can’t lose cluster of wickets, we did manage to recover towards the end but that is something we have to improve on. Same team and one or two options on changing the substitutions.

Shikhar Dhawan: We would have bowled first. But looking forward to batting first now. We did a lot of right things in the first game and that’s why we ended up on the winning side. We have to keep improving each game. Same team.

Playing XIs:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat(w), Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Subs: Suyash Prabhudessai, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Swapnil Singh

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan(c), Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma(w), Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar

Punjab Kings Subs: Arshdeep Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa