Bangalore bowl, Gayle to play

Chris Gayle made his first appearance in IPL V after recovering from a groin injury that kept him out of action since the Bangladesh Premier League in January. He was named in the Royal Challengers Bangalore starting XI to play Kolkata Knight Riders. That meant there was no room for Australia's Andrew McDonald, despite a confident 30 at the top of the line-up in their first match against Delhi Daredevils, an encounter Royal Challengers won.

Gayle had to wait to make an impression after captain Daniel Vettori chose to put Kolkata in to bat. Gautam Gambhir's side lost their first two matches after poor batting performances and were forced to make changes in the hope it would turn their fortunes around.

New Zealand opening batsmen Brendon McCullum and West Indies offspinner Sunil Narine were left out to make room for Bangladesh's Shakib al Hasan and Netherlands' Ryan ten Doeschate. The wicketkeeping gloves were handed to local keeper Manvinder Bisla, who came in for Debabrata Das, and L Balaji replaced Iqbal Abdulla in the XI.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Cheteshwar Pujara , 3 Virat Kohli, 4 AB de Villiers (wk), 5 Saurabh Tiwary, 6 Mayank Agarwal, 7 Daniel Vettori (capt), 8 Vinay Kumar, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Jacques Kallis, 2 Gautam Gambhir (capt), 3 Manoj Tiwary, 4 Shakib al Hasan 5 Yusuf Pathan, 6 Ryan ten Doeschate, 7 Manvinder Bisla (wk), 8 Laxmi Shukla, 9 Rajat Bhatia, 10 Brett Lee, 11 L Balaji