Overton returns as win-less CSK bowl vs unchanged RCB

Toss Chennai Tremendous Kings choose to bowl vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru

After dropping two successive tosses – and two successive video games – Chennai Tremendous Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad had the coin touchdown in his favour in opposition to defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Gaikwad opted to bowl on a contemporary Bengaluru pitch and stated that MS Dhoni, who’s nursing a calf damage, is recovering nicely. CSK had been additionally with out Dewald Brevis, who’s working his manner again from a aspect damage.

After enjoying simply two abroad gamers of their earlier sport in opposition to Punjab Kings in Chennai, CSK introduced England allrounder Jamie Overton again into their XI and elevated the abroad depend to a few. There was nonetheless no room for West Indies left-arm spin-bowling allrounder Akeal Hosein. Native left-arm spin-bowling allrounder Prashant Veer retained his spot within the XI although he did not bowl a ball in opposition to PBKS.

Nevertheless, there was no place for his or her different INR 14.2 crore purchase, Kartik Sharma, of their bowl-first XI. He was on the Impression Sub bench together with Australia allrounder Matt Brief. Considered one of these two gamers may slot into CSK’s batting line-up once they chase.

As for RCB, they struck to the identical mixture that beat SRH on the opening day of IPL 2026 at this venue. Wristspinner Suyash Sharma may change one of many batters when RCB bowl later this night.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 1 Phil Salt, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Devdutt Padikkal, 4 Rajat Patidar (capt), 5 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 6 Tim David, 7 Romario Shepherd, 8 Krunal Pandya, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Abhinandan Singh, 11 Jacob Duffy
Impression subs bench: Suyash Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Rasikh Salam Dar, Kanishk Chouhan, Venkatesh Iyer

Chennai Tremendous Kings: 1 Sanju Samson (wk), 2 Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), 3 Ayush Mhatre, 4 Sarfaraz Khan, 5 Shivam Dube, 6 Prashant Veer, 7 Jamie Overton, 8 Matt Henry, 9 Noor Ahmad, 10 Anshul Kamboj, 11 Khaleel Ahmed
Impression Subs bench: Matt Brief, Akeal Hosein, Kartik Sharma, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Gurjapneet Singh