The duo will undergo a six-day quarantine period before joining the rest of the RCB squad in the bio-secure bubble.
For MI, the other players who would be leaving for Dubai with their respective families are Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav.
Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shardul Thakur, Moeen Ali and Sam Curran are part of the CSK squad which has already started training ahead of the IPL resuming September 19.
Smith believes the Rishabh Pant-led team has the potential to do even better in the second half of the IPL to be played in UAE from September 19 to October 15.
The Royals, who are placed fifth in the IPL points table, will begin the second leg of IPL by taking on Punjab Kings on September 21.
The former Australian captain has been the head coach of Delhi since 2018, taking over from Rahul Dravid.
The rescheduled IPL will have RT-PCR testing every third day, instead of every fifth day during the last edition in the UAE.
Amit Mishra was among the infected people in the IPL-bio bubble, forcing the BCCI to suspend the event in May.
The two-time former champions did not have a great run in the first phase of IPL 2021 as they could manage just wins from seven matches.
Rajasthan Royals' batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal recently played for Mumbai against Oman; allowing him the chance to have a one-on-one session with his idol, the great Sachin Tendulkar.
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