IPL 2026 | RCB win toss, bowl first against LSG

Royal Challengers Bengaluru captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and eected to bowl first against the bottom-placed Lucknow Super Giants at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Thursday.

Patidar said that the visitors had made no changes to the playing 11 as Jacob Bethell will continue to open with Phil Salt now missing his fourth match.

"We will bowl first. It's not as loud as Chinnaswamy, but it's still loud. The surface looks good and we'll look to restrict them to a, low score. The break was good; everyone is doing well and we had some hard practice. We are playing with the same team," Patidar said.

Meanwhile, LSG captain Rishabh Pant said they had a few changes owing to injuries. Josh Inglis who played his first match in the previous encounter misses out, while pacer Mohsin Khan also has been ruled out. Arshin Kulkarni and Shahbaz Ahmed have been drafted in.

"Few change sin our team. Some injuries - Inglis and Mohsin Khan miss out. The only thing is to move with clarity. We know we're a top team, but the main thing is clarity. We have a few changes in the batting order. Having a stable environment is needed, but we need to make changes at times. Looks like a 180-190 wicket, a better wicket than most of the other games," Pant said.

RCB playing 11: Jacob Bethell, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar, Josh Hazlewood

RCB Impact Sub options:

LSG playing 11: Mitchell Marsh, Arshin Kulkarni, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Akshat Raghuwanshi, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Mohammed Shami, Prince Yadav

LSG Impact Sub options: Mayank Yadav, Mukul Choudhary, Abdul Samad, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan