Sharjah, April 24 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field against Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here on Thursday.
Bangalore made two changes with Muttiah Muralitharan coming in place of Nic Maddinson and Yogesh Takawale for Sachin Rana.
Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir also made two changes by bringing in pacer Umesh Yadav for Piyush Chawla and Chris Lynn for Shakib Al Hasan.
Squads:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel (wicketkeeper), Virat Kohli (captain), Yuvraj Singh, AB de Villiers, Albie Morkel, Ashok Dinda, Yogesh Takawale, Mitchell Starc, Yuzvendra Chahal, Varun Aaron, Muttiah Muralitharan.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (skipper), Jacques Kallis, Manish Pandey, Robin Uthappa (wicketkeeper), Yusuf Pathan, Chris Lynn, Suryakumar Yadav, R Vinay Kumar, Sunil Narine, Morne Morkel, Umesh Yadav.
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