Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag has won the toss and elected to bowl first against Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2025. “We will bowl first. We might see some dew later. The wicket gets settled in the second innings, so we want to take advantage of it. Vaibhav’s century celebrations were not big. We’re gonna take one game at a time. We will give players freedom despite some hiccups. Wanindu Hasaranga has niggle, so he is not playing. Sandy bhai (Sandeep Sharma) is carrying a fracture in his finger, so he also misses out. Akash Madhwal and Kumar Kartikeya come in,” Riyan Parag said.

Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya would have bowled first as well. “We would have bowled first as well. It would get better in the second innings, but we don’t mind batting first. It is about playing good cricket. The conversation has been about how we can be better. It continues for us, and nothing changes. We want to be fearless without thinking about the result. We have to analyze the wicket and then decide on the total we want to put on the board,” Hardik Pandya said.

Rajasthan Royals: 1 Vaibhav Suryavanshi, 2 yashasvi Jaiswal, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Riyan Parag (CAPT), 5 Dhruv Jurel (WK), 6 Shimron Hetmyer, 7 Jofra Archer, 8 Maheesh theekshana, 9 Kumar Karteke, 10 AkashEya Madhwal, 11 Fazalhaq Farooqi