Daijiworld Media Network

Chennai, Apr 12 : Scorching heat awaits the two teams in Chennai. Ladies and Gentlemen - we are in for a humdinger as the two South Indian giants lock horns yet again. A warm welcome to one and all. Can Dhoni's brigade resist the Gayle storm? How will Vettori and Muralitharan tackle Chennai's hard hitting batsmen? Don't go anywhere, we'll be back with the toss and the team line-ups.

A B de Villiers: We know that Chennai team is very good at home, it will be tough for us and we'll have to play well. It will be good if we win the toss today. This looks like the old Chennai wicket, it looks like a bat first wicket but we should see what our captain would do. I have to get back into good form today and hopefully strike some good blows today.

Royal Challengers Bangalore have won the toss and elected to bat

Vettori: I enjoy bowling in Bangalore but I've heard that this will assist the spinners even more. It looks a dry wicket and might break up even more as the game progresses. With Gayle, Kohli and AB at the top of the order, we have class and we need to deliver today. We're going to have a bat today. Hopefully the wicket will slow down later. We are playing one of the premier teams today and we need to bat well from the start. Bhatkal is in for Harshal Patel.

Dhoni: We have got players who can play big strokes. We have to be careful while taking singles and hopefully with a few more games behind our backs, we should be able to do well. We know how good we are, we need to deliver. We are going in with an unchanged side.

Teams:

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Cheteshwar Pujara, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers(w), Saurabh Tiwary, Mayank Agarwal, Daniel Vettori(c), Raju Bhatkal, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Muttiah Muralitharan

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Murali Vijay, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w/c), Albie Morkel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Doug Bollinger