IPL 2023: Royal Challengers win toss, decide to bowl against Mumbai Indians

New Delhi: Royal challengers Bangalore (RCB) won the toss at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium invited Mumbai Indians (MI) to bat first on Sunday, April 2.

🚨 Toss Update from Bengaluru 🚨@RCBTweets win the toss and elect to field first against @mipaltan.

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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 2, 2023

Skippers speak

Faf du Plessis: We are going to bowl first. There’s a bit of weather around. There has been a bit of dew in the practice games too. Myself, Bracewell, Maxwell, and Topley. We have been so excited to get started to tonight. This is one of the great stadiums to play cricket in. That’s a long way again. The first goal is to make the playoffs. We have to make sure we get off to a good start, 14 games to go in the tournament, and then we can talk about that.

Rohit Sharma: With this new rule teams are backing themselves to chase. At the end of the day you have to play good cricket to win. We know we have to bat first here. The pitch looks good, we just have to come out with positive intent. (Four overseas players) Tim David, Cameron Green, Jofra Archer and Jason Behrendorff. Last season was a disappointment for us but again, we know exactly where we went wrong so we’ll try and correct those mistakes. We’ve got some new faces as well so hopefully those guys play freely and express themselves. (On playing his 200th T20 game as captain) Exciting, I’m really honored and grateful as well. It’s been a long journey and it’s something I will cherish. Look forward to playing many more games and hopefully we can achieve what we want to achieve.