Aayush: This was a perfect situation for GT to have at least one of Phillips or Rutherford into the starting XI as KG was missing for sure. Accept it or not, they have made a terrible side as it shows that they will be playing just three overseas players in the XII.

Shashank: RCB has always been a team filled with star players and immense potential. With a balanced squad and experienced leadership, the team continues to chase its dream of winning the IPL trophy. Fans remain hopeful that their favorite players will bring home the championship in the near future.

So Gujarat Titans are fielding just two overseas players, with the option to bring another as the impact sub. Not going with the option of playing both Phillips and Rutherford in their XI despite having the opportunity to do so. It's a big show of faith in the likes of Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia in the middle order.

Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:

Gujarat Titans Impact Subs: Sherfane Rutherford, Glenn Phillips, Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Washington Sundar

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

Teams:

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

Gujarat Titans (Playing XI): Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma

Patidar: Would've bowled first as well because it's a new surface. It's pretty hard and won't change much. The way boys are chipping in gives a lot of confidence as a captain. We love this crowd. The way they love us and the support we've always received is incredible. Same team.

Gill: We'll bowl first.

Gujarat Titans have won the toss and have opted to field

Liam Livingstone: (Team is) Very confident. Great start to the tournament, two games on the road, we said about making a strong start as it helps in the later stages, hopefully we can carry it on here. It is our first chance to play in front of our home fans, everybody is really excited, we have been waiting for this day for a long while now, hopefully we can go out and put on a show. I enjoy both (batting and bowling). I feel like I can contribute with both these days, bowling might be a little difficult at this ground than what it is away from home, excited for the challenge and hopefully I can contribute with both tonight. There hasn't been much dew when we have trained. We don't know what the pitch is going to happen, try and assess the conditions with whatever we do first, hopefully we have got the skill sets to beat these guys tonight. We have set plans for the opposition teams but you can't predict what the pitch is going to do, I think real skill is being able to assess the conditions as quickly as possible, it helps having people like Hoff (Hazlewood) with the new ball and Virat with the bat, those guys have a lot of cricket behind them and they are pretty good at assessing conditions, just passing on the message, knowing what we need whether we are batting or bowling. It is certainly nice to have them on our team than playing against them, we have some really good experience in our squad, we have got some young talented boys, but you can't buy experience, our seam attack is experienced, which is what you need in the tournament. We look around that dressing room and you need that trust, when I look around there's certainly no holes in our team. We are really confident and like I said, really excited for tonight.

Sherfane Rutherford - First of all, I want to thank everyone for the opportunity to be playing in the IPL, it's always great to be playing in this tournament, as a team we're in a good space, we'll take 1 (win) from 2 on any day. Unfortunately for me, it hasn't been a good start, I think I could have done better, but it's a lot of learning and a lot of positives, I think I can keep learning as the days go by. It definitely did a lot for us (on the win in the last match), after the first half, we felt we were 10-15 runs short, but the bowlers adapted well on a slow surface, it's all about improving in small areas and doing better tonight. Definitely, I feel the same way 9on his performance). I still think I could have won the first match for my team. This is always a good wicket with a small ground (on the Chinnaswamy stadium), it's important to assess and make the adjustments. He's (on Virat Kohli) one of the greatest players, as a team, we have plans, it might not always work, but we'll have to follow the plans and hopefully he'll make a mistake.

Gujarat Titans arrive for this clash after a mixed start in Ahmedabad with one loss and one win to their name.

There are a lot of good signs for RCB given the way they have started this season. Phil Salt, Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar - they all seem to be in good nick while Josh Hazlewood has been on fire with the new ball.

Pitch report: It's pitch number 6 which wasn't used last year. 68m and 61m square boundaries, the straight boundary is 73m. 68m and 74m pockets on either side of the straight boundary. The wicket looks pretty dry, but there could be good bounce. It's well covered with grass and the pitch looks firm. It does look like a very good track, the ball should come on nicely. Toss doesn't really matter with 197 being the average first innings total, local knowledge says that dew could be a factor later on, opine Murli Kartik and Matthew Hayden, in their pitch report.

Gujarat Titans arrive for this clash after a mixed start in Ahmedabad with one loss and one win to their name. Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler have done the heavy lifting for them so far with the bat, while the bowling attack does have a sting to it with a lot of quality options in both pace and spin department. Will they be able to tame the power-packed RCB lineup today?

Pitch report: It's pitch number 6 which wasn't used last year. 68m and 61m square boundaries, the straight boundary is 73m. 68m and 74m pockets on either side of the straight boundary. The wicket looks pretty dry, but there could be good bounce. It's well covered with grass and the pitch looks firm. It does look like a very good track, the ball should come on nicely. Toss doesn't really matter with 197 being the average first innings total, local knowledge says that dew could be a factor later on, opine Murli Kartik and Matthew Hayden, in their pitch report.

There are a lot of good signs for RCB given the way they have started this season. Phil Salt, Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar - they all seem to be in good nick while Josh Hazlewood has been on fire with the new ball. Coming back after a break, his speeds are up and he has owned that back of a length as ever. Today will be a great challenge for him against a GT lineup that is quite top-heavy.