IPL 2025 KKR vs RCB Weather Report: Ajinkya Rahane-led Kolkata Knight Riders will square off against Rajat Patidar-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the opener match of the IPL 2025 season on March 22 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
With a freshly picked squad during the mega auction and new leadership, both sides will be aiming for a win to give a solid start in the campaign.
KKR vs RCB Weather Report
The Meterogical department has forecasted thunderstorms, lighting and rainfall in certain parts of Kolkata on March 22. The forecast remains mixed with probability of rain drops and the rain threat diminishes further initially, with a 10 percent chance of precipitation a while before the toss.
According to AccWeather.com, there are 70% chances of rain the night progresses, which hints play could be interrupted in the second half of the game.
The friday’s practice session were cut short due to intermittent drizzle. The temperature will be between 29 degrees Celsius and 22 degrees Celsius while the humidity will be differ between 61-80.
| Date | Time | Temperature | Weather | Humidity | Dew Point | Cloud Cover |
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22-03-2025
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10:00 AM | 24°C | Cloudy | 77% | 19°C | 100% |
| 11:00 AM | 24°C | Cloudy | 72% | 19°C | 100% | |
| 12:00 PM | 25°C | Cloudy | 68% | 19°C | 100% | |
| 1:00 PM | 26°C | Mostly Cloudy | 65% | 19°C | 75% | |
| 2:00 PM | 26°C | Intermittent Clouds | 63% | 19°C | 51% | |
| 3:00 PM | 27°C | Mostly Sunny | 61% | 18°C | 27% | |
| 4:00 PM | 26°C | Partly Sunny | 62% | 18°C | 44% | |
| 5:00 PM | 26°C | Intermittent Clouds | 64% | 19°C | 62% | |
| 6:00 PM | 25°C | Showers | 76% | 20°C | 79% | |
| 7:00 PM | 24°C | Mostly Cloudy | 80% | 20°C | 86% | |
| 8:00 PM | 23°C | Cloudy | 80% | 20°C | 92% | |
| 9:00 PM | 23°C | Cloudy | 76% | 19°C | 99% | |
| 10:00 PM | 23°C | Cloudy | 78% | 19°C | 99% | |
| 11:00 PM | 22°C | Cloudy | 81% | 18°C | 99% |
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 Head-to-Head
The Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru has clashed 34 matches where KKR has 20 wins while RCB has 14 wins. Out of 34 matches 12 were played in Eden Gardens where KKR has upper hand with 8 wins while RCB has four wins.
The host franchise has decent record at Eden Gardens with 52 wins out of 88 matches.
KKR vs RCB head-to-head record at Eden Gardens
- Matches played: 12
- KKR won: 8
- RCB won: 4
KKR record at Eden Gardens
- Matches played: 88
- Won: 52
- Lost: 36
- Highest score: 261/6 vs Punjab Kings (2024)
- Lowest score: 108 (18.1) vs Mumbai Indians (2018)
KKR vs RCB Probable 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
