Royal Challengers Bangalore Captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat first against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 31st Match of the IPL 2021. The match is being played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi.

Virat Kohli will be playing his 200th match for the RCB. Wanindu Hasaranga & KS Bharat have been handed their debut caps for RCB, while Venkatesh Iyer gets his debut cap for KKR. Playing XI of both teams are:

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) - Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers(w), Wanindu Hasaranga, Sachin Baby, Kyle Jamieson, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal