Mullanpur, May 29 (PTI): Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar won the toss and opted to bowl against Punjab Kings in Qualifier 1 of the IPL here on Thursday.

RCB made one change, bringing in Josh Hazlewood in place of Nuwan Thushara.

For PBKS, Azmatullah Omarzai replaced Marco Jansen.

Teams:

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Josh Inglis (w), Shreyas Iyer (c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kyle Jamieson

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (w), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma.

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Jamtara (Jharkhand) (PTI): A man was shot dead by three unidentified bike-borne armed miscreants in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district on Sunday, police said.

The incident took place at Dharampur village within Narainpur police station limits when the victim, identified as Furkan Ansari, a resident of the same village, had gone out for his morning tea at a stall around 8.15 am, they said.

Narainpur OC Murad Hasan said, "The victim's body was handed over to his family members after post-mortem examination at Sadar Hospital."

Police have launched an investigation into the matter, the OC said.