The Payback week is beginning with brawl of KKR and RCB.
Kolkata Knight Riders has been one of the most aggressive teams in the IPL 2024. They have been very consistent in their batting and bowling and sometimes surprise the fans also. Sunil Narine century is one of the most surprising thing to watched in the last match against Rajasthan. The heat is on, both side as Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) prepare to host Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at the Eden Gardens.
KKR came with a confident mood, sitting comfortably in the top order of the points table. Their batting has been a force to be reckoned with, with Sunil Narine’s century still fresh in everyone’s minds. Youngsters like Raghuvanshi and experienced like Andre Russell remains a constant threat. Bowling, however, has shown some inconsistency, with Mitchell Starc needing to tighten his grip in the death overs.
| Match Venue | Match Timings |
| Eden Garden | 3:30 P.M. IST |
For RCB, it’s a different story. They are sitting at the bottom after a streak of losses. Their bowling attack has been weakest amongst all. Their batting is heavily reliant on Virat Kohli and veteran Dinesh Karthik. The recent head-to-head record heavily favours KKR, who thrashed RCB by 7 wickets in their last encounter.
Let’s look at the Playing 11 of KKR and RCB for today’s match:
| Playing 11 of Kolkata Knight Riders | Playing 11 of Royal Challengers Bengaluru |
| Phil Salt (WK) | Virat Kohli |
| Sunil Narine | Faf du Plessis (C) |
| Angkrish Raghuvanshi | Dinesh Karthik (WK) |
| Shreyas Iyer (C) | Alzaari Joseph |
| Venkatesh Iyer | Yash Dayal |
| Ramandeep Singh | Rajat Patidar |
| Rinku Singh | Mayank Dagar |
| Andre Russell | Anuj Rawat |
| Anukul Roy | Mohammad Siraj |
| Mitchell Starc | Vyashk Vijay Kumar |
| Vaibhav Arora | Cameron Green |
Team Analysis of Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders has been very aggressive from the beginning of the IPL. Brnadon McCullum begin the IPL with his 150 runs, giving one of the best opening to one of the most loved leagues of all time. From then KKR has seen and made one of the best players that were and are a part of Indian Cricket Team. Rinku Singh in the last 2023 season and this season Angkrish Raghuvanshi performed with a blast.
The batting lineup of Kolkata is one of the strongest from top to middle order the team is ready to face any bowler. The bowling lineup of the KKR is very comprehensive with spinners, pacers to medium fast bowlers. This makes the built of overall team a comprehensive to play in any pitch and in any condition. This is the foremost reason of their consistent winning in this IPL.
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad for IPL 2024
Batters
Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Manish Pandey, and Angkrish Raghuvanshi.
Bowlers
Suyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Mitchell Starc, and Chetan Sharma.
All-Rounders
Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, and Venkatesh Iyer.
Team Analysis of Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Royal Challengers Bengaluru is also pretty strong build especially on the side od batting lineup. With Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar, Dinesh Karthik, Will Jacks and many more. The team is one of the best in batting but in the bowling lineup the team in struggling in the whole IPL 2024. Glenn Maxwell in this season did not give nay promising performance which build a little bit of pressure in the middle order. As per the latest news of IPL, He might be replaced by Cameron Green in today’s match.
Even having the best pieces of the game if anyone of the piece did not work then the it is evident that the load is going to be on everyone. Mohammad Siraj did not play last match with SRH and the team has to face the wrath of Travis Head and Klassen and they made the highest target in the IPL history. So, it is clearly evident that their bowling department needs a lot of improvement.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad for IPL 2024
Batters
Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash S Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, and Saurav Chuahan.
Bowlers
Akash Deep, Alzarri Joseph, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, and Rajan Kumar.
All-Rounders
Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Cameron Green, Swapnil Singh, Mayank Dagar, and Manoj Bhandage.
Pitch & Weather Report
Eden Gardens is the home ground of Kolkata Knight Riders. The pitch of Eden Gardens is mostly batting friendly. Having a flat surface and the bounce allow the batsman to hit big strokes. It is good pitch not just for batting but as well as for bowling especially for spinners. But only under the sunlight helps the pitch dry up and the seam is perfectly connecting with the pitch.
The weather of Eden Gardens ranges between 32 degree in the day to 29 degree Celsius in the night. Having a close proximity to sea lead to increase in humidity from 68% at 7 P.M. to 88% at 11 P.M.
Where can you watch the live match
You can live stream today’s KKR vs RCB exclusively on JioCinema. For our Television audience they can watch it on Star Sports Network. You can also watch live score on our cricoworld website and also on official website of IPL.
Match Umpires
The on-field umpires of today’s match are Akshay Totre and Vinod Seshan. The third umpire is Michael Gough
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Frequently Asked Questions
KKR won the IPL two times. (2012, 2014)
KKR is just a part of Shah Rukh Khan’s cricket ownership. Apart from KKR, SRK own 3 other teams under Knight Riders Group
