Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag won the toss and elected to bowl first against the Punjab Kings in their Indian Premier League (IPL) showdown at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium at New Chandigarh on Tuesday, April 28.
Each team has made two changes in their playing XI, for RR Dasun Shanaka comes in for Shimron Hetmeyer, Ravi Bishnoi also misses out, and Yash Punja (legspinner) replaces him.
Meanwhile, Suryansh Shedge comes in for Shashank, and the second change is Lockie Ferguson comes in for Xavier Bartlett.
What did the captains say at the toss?
RR skipper Riyan Parag said:
"We'll be bowling first. Looks like a pretty good wicket, but there was a little cloud cover and little shower as well, so a little bit of moisture in the start, so we're trying to extract that, get a few early wickets, and yeah, hopefully chase it down. Two changes. Hetmyer sits out, Dasun Shanaka comes in. And there's one more change. Bishnoi goes out and Yash Punja comes in. It's very hard to practice that (winning critical moments), firstly, but I feel everyone's played a lot of cricket, and you've just got to keep your nerve. I feel the pressure situation really tests your character. And once those situations come, whoever holds their nerve gets through."
While PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer said:
"We'll be bowling first. Looks like a pretty good wicket, but there was a little cloud cover and little shower as well, so a little bit of moisture in the start, so we're trying to extract that, get a few early wickets, and yeah, hopefully chase it down. Two changes. Hetmyer sits out, Dasun Shanaka comes in. And there's one more change. Bishnoi goes out and Yash Punja comes in. It's very hard to practice that (winning critical moments), firstly, but I feel everyone's played a lot of cricket, and you've just got to keep your nerve. I feel the pressure situation really tests your character. And once those situations come, whoever holds their nerve gets through."
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Dasun Shanaka, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma, Yash Raj Punja
RR impact subs: Ravi Bishnoi, Ravi Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Shimron Hetmyer
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Prabhsimran Singh(w), Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer(c), Cooper Connolly, Suryansh Shedge, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal
PBKS impact subs: Vishnu Vinod, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Xavier Bartlett, Harpreet Brar, Musheer Khan