IPL 2026 | RCB opts to field in rain-delayed clash against KKR

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru's skipper  Rajat Patidar flips the coin arsenic  Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper  Ajinkya Rahane takes the telephone  during the flip  earlier  an IPL lucifer  connected  May 13, 2026.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's skipper Rajat Patidar flips the coin arsenic Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper Ajinkya Rahane takes the telephone during the flip earlier an IPL lucifer connected May 13, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar won the flip and opted to tract against Kolkata Knight Riders successful their Indian Premier League lucifer successful Raipur connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026).

The flip was delayed due to the fact that of a bedewed outfield pursuing rain, but contempt the interruption, nary overs were mislaid nether the revised lucifer conditions.

The flip yet took spot astatine 8.30 p.m. section time, with the lucifer scheduled to statesman astatine 8.45 p.m. aft a hold of astatine slightest 1 hr and 15 minutes.

RCB replaced Romario Shepherd with Venkatesh Iyer portion KKR besides made 1 change, bringing successful Saurabh Dubey successful spot of spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who is retired of the crippled owed to a niggle.

Teams:

RCB: Jacob Bethell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Krunal Pandya, Tim David, Venkatesh Iyer, Rasikh Salam, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Jacob Duffy.

KKR: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Kartik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora.

Published - May 13, 2026 08:50 p.m. IST

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