IPL 2025, KKR vs RCB: Check out Top-3 Moments of Kolkata vs Bangalore clash

The opening match of IPL 2025 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore on 22 March today. In this match played at the Eden Gardens ground, RCB in a one -sided manner, registered an easy win by 7 wickets at KKR’s home ground.

Talking about the match, KKR batted first and put a target of 175 runs to win in front of RCB. But after this, RCB, batting brilliantly, easily achieved this target by losing 3 wickets in 16.2 overs. Well, let us tell you about the three big and top moments of this match:

1. Krunal Pandya’s spell

RCB started well in the match, in the first over, Hazlewood dismissed Quinton Discux (4). But thereafter, Rahane and Narayan shared more than 100 runs, but its experienced spinners Krunal Pandya first made Rahane (56) and then Venkatesh Iyer (6) and Rinku Singh (12) bold out, made a brilliant comeback to RCB’s match. In front of Pandya’s spin, KKR’s middle order was shaken.

2. RCB’s powerplay batting

The second match was the main moment RCB’s powerplay batting. The opening pair of Phil Salat (56) and Virat Kohli (59*) made a strong partnership of 95 runs for the first wicket, while the powerplay scored a total of 80 runs. From here the match turned to RCB.

3. Bold out to Russell by Suyash

The third KKR vs. RCB match was bold out of Andre Russell (4) by Suyash Sharma. Suyash played a key role in giving RCB an edge in the match on the fourth ball of the 16th over.

If Russell was not out, and had played a full 20 overs, KKR would have scored more than 200 runs to win in front of RCB in the match, chasing RCB’s batting while chasing.