IPL 2018 DD vs KXIP: Delhi wins toss; Punjab to bat

New Delhi: In a much anticipated Indian Premier League (IPL 2018) match, Delhi Daredevils (DD) won the toss and elected to bowl first against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground here on Monday.

In a jolt to Punjab, Chris Gayle has been rested owing to a minor injury making way for Aaron Finch to get another chance. This time Finch will open the inning with Lokesh Rahul instead of strengthening the middle-order.

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For Delhi, Chris Morris and Jason Roy have been ruled out due to injury concerns while Dan Christian and Liam Plunkett have been included in the playing XI.

Here are the two squads:

Kings XI Punjab (KXIP): Lokesh Rahul (wk), Aaron Finch, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Yuvraj Singh, David Miller, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Andrew Tye, Barinder Sran, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Delhi Daredevils (DD): Gautam Gambhir (c), Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Daniel Christian, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Liam Plunkett, Shahbaz Nadeem, Harshal Patel, Trent Boult