Delhi: The IPL 2025 starts from March 22, the first match of which will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the Kolkata Eden Garden. On one hand, the defending champion Kolkata will descend very strongly. On the other hand, RCB will aim to realize the dream of its first title in this season. Before this important match, IA know what is the pitch report and the potential plane of both teams.
Defending Champion Kolkata Knight Riders of Strength
The team of Kolkata Knight Riders, the champion team of IPL 2024, is full of experienced and young batsmen. In the top order, foreign batsmen like Gurbaz and Quinton de Kock are included in the team. The same aggressive players like Rinku Singh and Andre Russell are enough to play the role of match finisher. The same as the same Sunil Naren and Varun Chakraborty have two world -class spinners, due to which this team looks strong.
Weak Will have Royal Challengers Bangalore Of Experience
RCB has a very experienced player without winning the IPL title, where this time this team will land with the new captain as a silver Patidar. The batting of the team is excellent. From top order to middle order, all are good batsmen. This season RCB bowling looks a bit bad. There is no good spinner in the team. Krunal Pandya and Swapnil Singh are a good option but both are off-spinners which do not prove to be so effective in T20.
Pitch report of Eden Gardens, Kolkata
The pitch of the Eden Gardens is considered to be suited to batting which has good bounce and speed. The surface is usually flat and the boom is correct, which makes it very favorable to play stroke. Here, there is a lot of runs in T20 format, where it has been easy for the team that batting later to achieve the target. In such a situation, the teams like to bat later in view of the flat pitch.
Match details
| Match | Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Site | Garden of Eden |
| Date and time | 22 March 2025 7:30 |
| Live broadcast and streaming details | Star Sports Network, Jio Hotstar |
IPL head to head between Kolkata and Bengaluru
| Head-to-head record | Description |
| Match played | 34 |
| Kolkata won by Knight Riders | 20 |
| Royal Challengers won by Bangalore | 14 |
| Tie (tied) | 0 |
| No result (no result) | 0 |
| Match played for the first time | 18 April 2008 |
| Most of the most recent match | 21 April 2024 |
Possible playing-11 of both teams
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Kolkata Knight Riders |
|---|---|
| Virat Kohli | Quinton de Cock (wicket keeper) |
| Phil Salt | Sunil Naren |
| Devdutt Padikkal | Ajinkya Rahane (Captain) |
| Silver (Captain) | Venkatesh Iyer |
| Liam Livingstone | Rinku Singh |
| Jitesh Sharma (wicket keeper) | Andre Russell |
| Tim David/Jacob Bethel | Ramandeep Singh |
| Krunal Pandya | Harshit Rana |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Spencer Johnson |
| Josh Hazlewood | Vaibhav Arora |
| Yash Dayal | Varun chakravarti |
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