Royal Challenger Bangalore Captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to field first against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 52nd match of the IPL 2021. The match is being played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi.

Head 2 head count between RCB & SRH stands really close at 8-10 in favour of SRH. However, SRH is at the last spot in the points table while RCB is fighting for a spot in the top two. The last time these two teams met in the first leg, RCB won by 6 runs. Playing XI of both teams are:

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) - Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal(w), Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Daniel Christian, Shahbaz Ahmed, Srikar Bharat, George Garton, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) - Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Kane Williamson(c), Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Umran Malik