RR vs RCB Toss Updates, IPL 2026: Rajasthan Royals win toss, Riyan Parag asks Bengaluru to bat in Guwahati

IPL 2026 Today Match, Rajasthan Royals (RR) vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Toss Updates: After a rain-interrupted delay in the toss, Rajasthan Royals won the spin of the coin and asked defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru to bat first. But as luck would have it, there was a further interruption by the rain just as the captains were speaking after the toss, which led to another hold up in the IPL 2026 game at Guwahati on Friday night.

Despite the double rain interruptions, there will be no loss of overs in the RR vs RCB game.

Rajasthan are looking to continue their winning streak when they take on Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their third home game in Guwahati on Friday.

After a thrilling win in an 11-over shootout against the Mumbai Indians on a rainy night, RR will be keen to break defending champions RCB’s winning run.

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RR vs RCB IPL 2026 Match Toss – Guwahati

Toss: Rajasthan win toss after rain delay

Here’s how the Toss played its part last year for the Rajasthan Royals at home

RR at home in IPL 2025

RR held a terrible toss record at home last in 2025, winning the coin flip only twice in seven games. In those two matches where they won the toss at home, they won once and lost once as well. After losing the toss at home a combined five times in Guwahati and Jaipur, the side could only win one game while losing the other four. The franchise won a total of four games in IPL 2025 and finished ninth with just 8 points.

Tosses Won at home: 2/7

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Matches Won after Toss win at home: 1/2; Batting 1st: Nil; Batting 2nd: 1/2

RCB in away matches in IPL 2025

En route to their maiden title win in the IPL 2025 season, RCB emerged as arguably the strongest travelling unit, winning nine out of their 10 matches away from home. They ended up winning the coin flip in seven games, of which they recorded six victories. In the three matches that they dropped the toss, RCB still ended up on the winning side in all of those games.

Tosses won away from home: 7/10

Matches Won after Toss win away: 6/7; Batting 1st: -; Batting 2nd: 6/7

Matches Won after Toss loss away: 3/3; Batting 1st: 3/3; Batting 2nd:

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RR vs RCB IPL 2026 Match Squads

Rajasthan Royals Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Ravi Bishnoi, Shubham Dubey, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Brijesh Sharma, Ravi Singh, Adam Milne, Dasun Shanaka, Kuldeep Sen, Sushant Mishra, Kwena Maphaka, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Vignesh Puthur, Aman Rao Perala

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Duffy, Suyash Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Rasikh Salam Dar, Kanishk Chouhan, Venkatesh Iyer, Josh Hazlewood, Mangesh Yadav, Swapnil Singh, Jordan Cox, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Satvik Deswal.