KKR vs RCB Probable Playing 11: The inaugrual match of the IPL 2025 season played between KKR and RCB will be played on March 22 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
With renewed squad and leadership, both sides will be looking for a win to get a solid start in the 2025 campaign. Kolkata was the winners of 2024 season clinching their third IPL title. Meanwhile RCB got eliminated in knock out stages in the last season.
It will be interesting to see what kind of line up will be entering the field in the iconic Eden Gardens.
Both sides has clashed 34 times in IPL history, with KKR holding the upper hand with 20 victories, while RCB has won 14. In the previous season, KKR emerged victorious in both encounters against RCB including a narrow-one run victory at Eden Gardens.
Also Check: IPL 2025 Points Table, Team Standing, NRR and Points
KKR vs RCB Pitch Conditions
The main pitch of Eden Gardens is made made of black cotton soil, which gives good bounce to the ball, which helps the batsmen to score runs. However, the pitch initially helps the fast bowlers, but as the ball gets old, the spinner starts getting help and he also takes good wickets.
In the last 10 matches, then on this pitch, the pacer has got 57% and the spinner has got 43% wickets at Eden Gardens Stadium.
The average score on this ground is 180 runs and so far 93 IPL matches have been played at Eden out of which the first batting team has won 38 while the team batting second innings has won 55 matches.
KKR vs RCB Probable Playing 11
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (wk), Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma/Rasikh Dar Salam
