RCB all-rounder Shahbaz Ahmed thinks that he can perfom tonight and hopes that his bowling can be required to impact tonight’s game.
I haven’t played a lot yet this year but going forward I will have moments, I hope I get to perform today. Team’s balance has become better because of the impact player, and I’m waiting for moments where my bowling could be required, similarly with my batting. We won our first game convincingly at home, and it feels good to be back here after travelling to Kolkata. The full focus now is to ace the next six home matches, and maintain a solid team balance. On this surface, the bounce is ideal for my style of batting – it makes it easy for me to score runs and in the previous game we also noticed the ball was gripping.
LSG won the toss and opted to field first while RCB skipper Faf was confused with his decision, considering the pitch turned out to be different from what both the franchises expected. According to the skippers, the pitch seems a bit dry and it was “50-50” for skipper Faf to give thought to what to opt for.
Faf du Plessis: Does look a little bit dry. We were 50-50 as to what to do. We did chase last time around. We were thinking of changing it around this time. We are looking foward to this contest. Four pronged seam attack.
KL Rahul: We will bowl first, Going by the history of the ground. Quite simple and straightforward. It is still home. I have grown up here and played all my cricket. We got close against CSK trying to chase down 220. The crowd will be getting loud and getting behind their team. Few changes. Wood comes back in. Yash is out. Few other changes as well.
