“Happy to be back first. I was pretty unsure about the wicket as well. It looks like it’s dry, but then we’ve seen the past scores and results here, chasing has been better, though it also tends to slow down a bit later on. So I was a little confused, but happy to bowl first because of that,” said Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag.

“We’ve had some ups and downs in the last few games. I think we haven’t defended totals very well. But today gives us another opportunity to do that and hopefully get it right. So we’ve gone with an extra seamer today and hopefully we can defend the total better. Jaddu is out because of workload management and all of that, and Ravi Singh comes in for us,” he added.