Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won the toss and chose to bat against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here on Sunday.
RCB captain Virat Kohli said that he expects the pitch to get slower as the match progresses.
Maxwell fifty helps Bangalore recover from early blows. At present RCB stands at 95/2 against KKR.
"The surface looks better than the one we played on last time. We need enough runs on the board. We're playing just three overseas players - (Dan) Christian misses out and Rajat Patidar is back. He's a top player of spin. For us, it's just one game at a time and not want to be too bogged down about losses, which we have done in the past," said Kohli.
KKR captain Eoin Morgan said that they would have done the same. "We would have probably looked to do the same thing. We've kept the same team - we have plenty of options with bat and ball. We want to end the Chennai leg of things on a high," said Morgan.
RCB squad: : Virat Kohli (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Rajat Patidar, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.
KKR squad: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Andre Russell, Eoin Morgan (captain), Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Shakib Al Hasan, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Harbhajan Singh, Varun Chakravarthy.