MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bowl first for Chennai Super Kings. Rarely do Chennai Super Kings visit Royal Challengers Bengaluru with such low stakes. Just last May at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium,

The two teams have met each other 34 times in the history of the IPL and Chennai Super Kings have the upper hand in this rivalry. However, the last time the two teams met each other, earlier in IPL 2025 in Chennai,

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) outgunned Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Chinnaswamy yet again, defending 213 on a flat pitch in a wildly see-sawing classic. It came down to Yash Dayal vs MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja once again.