Bangalore, Apr 15: Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the 18th match between Bangalore and Rajasthan. Dravid will be playing against his old team and this promises to be an exciting contest. Bangalore desperately need a win under their belt as they have lost back to back matches and the defeat against Chennai would have hurt them badly. On the other hand, Rajasthan have lost both their away matches and will be looking to put up a better performance.

Rajasthan Royals have won the toss and elected to bat

Dravid: It's an away home match for me. It's a great venue and I have great memories at this ground. We had couple of tough losses and we have done well at our home ground. We will bat, the pitch looks a bit dry and hopefully we'll put some runs on the board. Unfortunately Cooper is not playing and Pankaj Singh comes in place of Chavan.

Vettori: When we lose close games it will affect us morally, but we are playing at our home ground and we are upbeat. The wicket looks dry and hopefully it will stay good. Gayle is playing tonight. Aravind and Kaif get their first game this season.

Well, the Bangalore boy Dravid has said that the pitch is a bit dry. It has a lot of cracks and it should assist the spinners later.

Teams:

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers(w), Saurabh Tiwary, Mohammad Kaif, Daniel Vettori(c), Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Sreenath Aravind, Muttiah Muralitharan

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Rahul Dravid(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Menaria, Shreevats Goswami(w), Owais Shah, Brad Hodge, Johan Botha, Brad Hogg, Pankaj Singh, Amit Singh, Siddharth Trivedi