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After losing three straight games, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru have made some crucial changes to their playing XI for the game against the Mumbai Indians. Since defeating the Punjab Kings, Bengaluru has failed to find a win and is languishing at the ninth spot on the points table. Across these defeats, RCB fell short in the batting department with Virat Kohli scoring the bulk of runs for the side.
So ahead of the MI game, the RCB backroom staff were forced to take a call on dropping one of Cameron Green, the player they traded ahead of the season or Glenn Maxwell, one of the retained players. Hence all eyes were on Faf du Plessis as he announced that Will Jacks was picked in the playing XI and that the Englishman would bat at number three. Later it was revealed that Jacks replaced Cameron Green.
Will Jacks debuts and he'll come in at 3: Faf du Plessis
Speaking at the toss, Du Plessis said, "We've tried to change things, so we've given chances to some of our players, some new players and it's up to them to take the opportunity. It's important to give players a decent run, but we've found ourselves in a stage where we haven't done well, so it's time to make changes.
"One thing that's important is to be consistent and that's where we've been disappointing. But we know we can turn this around. We would have fielded as well, chasing at this ground is the better option, but the pitch looks good. We've got three changes - Jacks debuts and he'll come in at 3, Mahipal and Vyshak are back.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing XI:
Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Reece Topley, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep
Subs: Suyash Prabhudessai, Saurav Chauhan, Swapnil Singh, Rajan Kumar, Karn Sharma