Two teams with contrasting results will be up against each other tomorrow. Dubbed as a Southern Derby of the IPL, Chennai Super Kings will be taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore at the MCA Stadium, Pune. The major attraction will, of course, be the sight of Kohli against MS Dhoni but the clash of the two teams against each other will be an intriguing match.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Despite a win against Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore are still not out of the woods. So far they have played eight matches and have five losses. To stay in the race, RCB has to win each of their match remaining.

In the last match against Mumbai, Manan Vohra gave a brilliant start to the innings and then RCB was just flat. They had a terrible collapse and it was hard hitting from Grandhomme that gave them the chance. Their bowling was spot on and won them the match.

With AB De Villiers still recovering from the fever, he had to miss another match. McCullum continued. Sundar came in for M.Ashwin. If ABD becomes fit, RCB will have a conundrum in front of them. McCullum or De Kock will have to sit out.

Brendon McCullum/AB De Villiers, Tim Southee, Virat Kohli (c), Umesh Yadav, Mandeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Colin de Grandhomme, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock/Parthiv Patel (wk), Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar

Chennai Super Kings

The yellow team is no more at the top of the table with two consecutive losses. Chennai team has as always been solid so far and has given a lot to cheer for its loyal fans. In the last match against Kolkata, they struggled to put an above-par total.

In the last match, CSK went unchanged. They may experiment with three spots now. The spots open are Karn Sharma (one over in the last match), KM Asif and Dwayne Bravo.  Choices are David Willey, Shardul Thakur, Dhruv Shorey.

Playing XI –

Harbhajan Singh, Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo/David Willey, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Karn Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Lungi Ngidi, KM Asif/Shardul Thakur