On Wednesday, Kohili is leading the RCB squad on the field and it is his 100th match as captain in IPL. After MS Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir, he is the third Indian cricketer to captain in 100 or more matches.
Dhoni won the toss and choose to field.
Till now in the series of Indian Premier League 2018, CSK have bagged four wins out of five matches. Which includes a four-win over SRH in their most recent outing. Whereas RCB wins two matched out of five in IPL. The team RCB has languished in the bottom half of the table when compared to CSK.
Teams:
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Mandeep Singh, Corey Anderson, Colin de Grandhomme, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Sam Billings, MS Dhoni(w/c), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir
Team Head to Head:
Overall: Matches – 20, Royal Challengers Bangalore won – 7, Chennai Super Kings won – 12, No Result – 1
At the M Chinnaswamy stadium: Matches – 7, Royal Challengers Bangalore won – 3, Chennai Super Kings won – 3, No Result – 1