Raipur, May 10 -- Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won the toss and elected to field against Mumbai Indians in their IPL clash here on Sunday.
RCB skipper Rajat Patidar said the decision was influenced by the hard surface and favourable chasing conditions.
"We will bowl first. Pretty obvious, surface is good and hard. We will try and restrict them and go for the chase," Patidar said at the toss.
He added that the team was unfazed by recent setbacks and preferred to focus on its own game. "Yes, we had a couple of losses but we want to focus on ourselves rather than the opposition," he said, confirming that RCB would field an unchanged playing XI.
Mumbai Indians captain Suryakumar Yadav said he too would have preferred batting first, cit...