NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru stand-in captain Jitesh Sharma received the toss and opted to bowl first in opposition to Lucknow Tremendous Giants in Match 70 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 on the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. RCB made two adjustments to their taking part in XI, with common skipper Rajat Patidar nonetheless beginning on the bench and certain for use as an Influence Substitute. Regardless of recovering from harm, Josh Hazlewood was overlooked, whereas Liam Livingstone changed Tim David and Nuwan Thushara got here in for Lungi Ngidi.“We’ll subject first. Appears to be like like a superb wicket, we’ll fancy to chase. Rajat Patidar is our influence participant. Trying to win and make it into the top-2. Tim David misses out, Liam is available in, so does Thushara, he replaces Ngidi who left the crew,” Jitesh Sharma mentioned.
Lucknow Tremendous Giants captain Rishabh Pant mentioned the crew would follow their aggressive type of play. LSG additionally made two adjustments to their XI, with Matthew Breetzke and Digvesh Rathi coming in.
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Was it a superb choice for RCB to bowl first?
“We do not thoughts batting or bowling first, we did present the glimpse of the potential in our final recreation, however each match is a studying curve, until the final ball is bowled, we’ll give our one hundred pc. Few adjustments – Breetzke is in and Digvesh Rathi is again in,” Pant mentioned.DRAMA AT THE TOSSThere was a second of drama throughout the toss.Jitesh Sharma introduced that Rajat Patidar would are available because the Influence Participant throughout the second innings. Nevertheless, the official crew sheet had Patidar listed among the many beginning XI. This confusion occurred as a result of Jitesh mistakenly handed over RCB’s batting-first crew sheet to the match referee.As RCB have been fielding first, they rapidly corrected the error by submitting the suitable crew sheet after receiving approval from the LSG crew administration.The whole mix-up was picked up and narrated by the commentators on reside tv.RCB’s crew sheets:
Taking part in XIs:Lucknow Tremendous Giants: Rishabh Pant (wk, capt), Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Breetzke, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Rathi, Avesh Khan, William O’RourkeInfluence Substitutes: Yuvraj Chaudhary, Arshin Kulkarni, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Mayank Agarwal, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya,Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Nuwan Thushara, Suyash SharmaInfluence Substitutes: Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh, Rajat Patidar, Rasikh Salam, Manoj Bhandage
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