Just within the next three hours, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings will lock horns at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai for the first game of the Indian Premier League 12. As the anticipation amongst the fans and the cricketers soars, both teams have released the commercial for the IPL 2019. Both ads feature captains of the respective teams. On one hand, where the RCB advertisement encourages the team to Play Bold, Dhoni and men urge fans to Whistle Podu. MS Dhoni Smashes the Ball on the Rooftop Ahead of IPL 2019 Opening Game Between CSK vs RCB (Watch Video).

Apart from Virat Kohli, the RCB commercial also has faces like Umesh Yadav, Parthiv Patel, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal. The commercial features the players of RCB sweating it out in the nets and each of them looked extremely determined to win. The commercial was released earlier today with the caption, “Our Challengers' favourite chant over the years has been 'RCB' screamed as loudly as possible. So we decided to take that and turn it into an anthem! Let's sing it loudly and proudly! Khel ke dikha, RCB!Yaare barali, RCB!#PlayBold.”Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Scorecard.

On the other hand, CSK’s commercial feature MS Dhoni, Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo, Murali Vijay and a few fans from of the franchise. The commercial was shared on social media with the caption, “The most important #YelloveDay routine - Whistle Paraaaak! #CSKvsRCB#WhistlePodu 🦁💛,”

 

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The teams have met each other on 23 occasions out of which MS Dhoni’s men have won 15 games and RCB has won seven. One of them produced no result. Needless to say Virat Kohli and men would be looking to change the records in the match today.

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