RCB kick off IPL V campaign against confident Delhi

u00a0 Their confidence boosted by a dominating win in the lungopener Delhi Daredevils face a tough test when they take on last year39s runnersup Royal Challengers Bangalore in their second IPL match here tomorrow u00a0 For the Daniel Vettoriled Bangalore it would be their first outing of the season and with an explosive lineup of batsmen West Indian swashbuckler Chris Gayle being their biggest star the almostthere team of 2011 would look to go the whole hog this time u00a0 Bangalore would hope that Vettori can carry forward the legacy of Anil Kumble and bring the same zest that he brought to his national team while at the helm of perennial underdogs but proven giantkillers New Zealand u00a0 Royal Challengers Bangalore Photo PTI u00a0 Besides Gayle Bangalore would also expect fireworks from the Indian national team39s inform batsman Virat Kohli The Delhiite whose sensational run with the bat in the tour of Australia and the Asia Cup made as many headlines as India39s wretched run in both the outings will look to continue the fine form u00a0 Daredevils on the other hand have got the perfect start to their campaign after Irfan Pathan scored a brisk unbeaten 42 to guide them to a comfortable eightwicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in a raincurtailed 12oversaside lungopener last night u00a0 Their bowling was the key as Morne Morkel scalped three wickets 3 for 18 runs while Umesh Yadav and Roelof van der Merwe bagged two apiece to restrict the Knight Riders to 97 for nine Chasing the small total Aaron Finch 30 from 27 balls and skipper Virender Sehwag 20 off 13 gave the Daredevils a solid start putting on 49 for the opening wicket u00a0 The Daredevils however will be without the services of big names like Mahela Jayawardene Kevin Pietersen and David Warner in as they are busy playing for their respective countries u00a0 Besides Kiwi Ross Taylor is also unavailable after he broke his hand during the third Test against South Africa recently With key players missing for the first half of the event Sehwag will have to take the extra load in along with Naman Ojha and Venugopal Rao u00a0 A lot of hopes are also pinned on their new signing West Indies39 Andre Russell who would like to make an impact with the bat at the big stage The spin lineup however looks a bit raw with leftarm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem leading the attack and which will also have Roelf van der Merwe u00a0 Teams from Royal Challengers Bangalore Daniel Vettori c Mayank Agarwal KP Appanna Sreenath Aravind Arun Karthik Raju Bhatkal AB de Villiers Tillakaratne Dilshan Muralidharen Gautam Chris Gayle Mohammad Kaif Abrar Kazi Zaheer Khan Virat Kohli Charl Langeveldt Andrew McDonald Abhimanyu Mithun Muttiah Muralitharan Karun Nair Dirk Nannes Ryan Ninan Harshal Patel Asad Pathan Luke Pomersbach Cheteshwar Pujara Rilee Rossouw Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad Saurabh Tiwary Vinay Kumar Vijay Zol u00a0 Delhi Daredevils Virender Sehwag c Ajit Agarkar Irfan Pathan Umesh Yadav Puneet Bisht Robin Bist Naman Ojha wk Shahbaz Nadeem Venugopal Rao Vikas Mishra Yogesh Nagar Zafir Patel Sunny Gupta Tejashwi Yadav Aavishkar Salvi Kuldeep Raval Manpreet Juneja Pawan Negi Prashant Naik Aaron Finch Andre Russell Doug Bracewell Glenn Maxwell Gulam Bodi Morne Morkel Roelf van der Merweu00a0