Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf de Plessis won the toss and elected to bat first against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Thursday. Royal Challengers Bangalore are losing six consecutive matches and their hopes of reaching the playoffs are almost over. The team led by Pat Cummins is in third place. In the last match between the teams in the ongoing tournament, SRH defeated RCB by 25 runs, which is the highest score in the history of IPL, which is 287 runs for 3 wickets. RCB captain Faf du Plessis said at the toss, "We're going to do that. BA first. We feel our fans go with us everywhere we go. These boys are playing some amazing cricket, hopefully we can build on them." "It's great to be back here," SRH captain Pat Cummins said at the toss. This is my first year here. Judging by the number of people wearing orange, it looks like it's a nice place. We want to bat like that. We have to adjust quickly as a bowling side. Unadkat came in place of Washington Sundar. Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (captain), Raja Patidar, Cameron Green, Will Jacques, Dinesh Karthik (w), Mahipal Lomror, Kar Sharma, Lockie Ferguson. . Mohammed Siraj, Yash Daya Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Nitish Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan.