Pre-match COW
| Rising Pune Supergiants 51% |  | Royal Challengers Bangalore 49% |
Team Strengths Comparison :
*All the numbers are on a scale of 10, 0 being the weakest and 10 being the strongest.
Key Players :
Rising Pune Supergiants : MS Dhoni, Faf du Plessis, Kevin Pietersen
Royal Challengers Bangalore : Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson
Head to Head :
This is their first match against each other.