Ashwin to Phil Salt, FOUR, between extra cover and long-off

Ashwin to Phil Salt, SIX, that's a gift first up from Ashwin. Attempts the carrom ball but drags it short, the line is around leg-stump and it is a free-hit for Salt,

Ravichandran Ashwin, right-arm off break, comes into the attack

Khaleel Ahmed to Phil Salt, 1 run, to deep square leg

Khaleel Ahmed to Phil Salt, FOUR, this is off the middle. Khaleel angles it across and offers readymade width for Salt to free his arms, he goes hard and slices it over backward point, one bounce and over the ropes

Khaleel Ahmed to Phil Salt, FOUR, streaky! Both Khaleel and Salt have a smile on their face. Not where Salt intended the ball to go but he's off the mark with a boundary. Fullish delivery at the stumps,

Khaleel Ahmed to Phil Salt, no run

Khaleel Ahmed to Phil Salt, no run, shimmies down and is met by a 140.7ks short of length delivery, misses the pull and is struck on the thigh pad

Khaleel Ahmed to Phil Salt, no run, play and miss first ball. Khaleel goes all the way to Salt and has a word. Looked friendly. Back of a length and angled across,

Phil Salt and Kohli are at the crease. Phil Salt is on strike. Khaleel Ahmed will open the attack

The players are making their way out to the middle. There was such a buzz when Gaikwad won the toss that we were not able to hear what he was saying.

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Liam Livingstone: Really excited and it's probably one of the biggest games in the IPL. Exciting to get out there and play, should be a great game. I have really enjoyed my time with RCB. The coaches have been brilliant. I have worked with Andy (Flower) before with the England Lions and DK has been brilliant. I just promised Andy and DK that I'll leave this tournament a better player than what I was at the start of it and hopefully results will take care of themselves. I am certainly looking forward to bowling here more than at the Chinnaswamy. I love being able to impact the game with the ball and hopefully I get an opportunity to do that tonight. Hopefully there's a bit of grip in the pitch. Hopefully I can contribute to the team winning a game of cricket tonight. I have really enjoyed my time here, we've only been here two weeks but it's a great environment, we've got a lot of skill with the camp and everyone seems to be enjoying each other's company. It's a really relaxed environment. Hopefully we can keep on winning games of cricket, that obviously helps.

Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:

Chennai Super Kings Impact Subs: Shivam Dube, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Vijay Shankar, Jamie Overton, Shaik Rasheed

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Impact Subs: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Manoj Bhandage

Teams:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Matheesha Pathirana, Khaleel Ahmed

Rajat Patidar: We had decided to bowl first.