On a high after extracting revenge against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to continue their winning streak.
RCB have made one change, KL Rahul comes in for Murali Kartik.
Kolkata Knight Riders made three changes to their line-up. Pradeep Sangwan replaces Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ryan McLaren is in for Brett Lee and Laxmipathy Balaji takes Shami Ahmed's place in the team.
Led by the energetic Virat Kohli, RCB trounced Hyderabad by 19 runs on Monday and the RCB skipper will be hoping that his men will not go haywire after making a good start, which was their story until the last IPL.
On the other hand, after losing to Rajasthan Royals in their previous encounter, KKR will look for a reversal of when they play their third match against the southern powerhouse.
RCB will be hoping to get a rollicking start from Gayle, who failed to make an impact in the last two games. AB de Villiers will hope to fire after scoring 15 vital runs in a 49-run partnership with his skipper against Hyderabad.
KKR, in contrast, have failed to capitalise on their good start having lost their last match to Rajasthan by 19 runs chasing a rather easy target of 145.
Eoin Morgan will be desperate to carry his form into the next match against RCB, after scripting a fighting innings against RR in the last match. The Englishman was the only successful batsman for KKR, scoring 51 off 38 balls.
Teams:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli (captain), Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Moses Henriques, Arun Karthik (wicket-keeper), Vinay Kumar, KL Rahul, Jaydev Unadkat, RP Singh, Muttiah Muralitharan
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Manvinder Bisla (wicket-keeper), Jacques Kallis, Manoj Tiwary, Eoin Morgan, Yusuf Pathan, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Ryan McLaren, L Balaji, Sunil Narine.
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