Match Details
- Date: Apr il 21, 2024
- Time: 3:30 PM IST
- Venue: Ed en Gardens, Kolkata
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Preview
Kolkata Knight Riders will play against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the 36th match of the IPL 2024 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Despite losing to Rajasthan Royals in a last-ball thriller, Kolkata Knight Riders are well placed in the top half of the IPL standings at the halfway mark of the tournament. For Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who are struggling badly to put up a performance in the IPL 2024, all of their top players need to step up against a formidable opponent this weekend.
Pitch Report
The pitches at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata have proven to be very good for batters, and generally, they tend to improve as the night rolls along. With that, the average first innings score of 165 at this venue in the IPL, could be far from enough for either KKR or RCB to defend in their upcoming match.
Team Analysis
Kolkata Knight Riders
The Kolkata Knight Riders batting lineup is firing on all cylinders in the IPL 2024, with Sunil Narine leading from the front with the bat at the top of the order, scoring the first T20 century of his career against Rajasthan Royals. The West Indies all-rounder has also been the best bowler for KKR in the competition, and he has gotten tremendous support from his spin bowling counterpart Varun Chakravarthy in particular.
IPL 2024 Squad of Kolkata Knight Riders
Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Allah Ghazanfar, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain. Players injured/withdrawn: Jason Roy, Gus Atkinson, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Royal Challengers Bengaluru had yet another game to forget at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, suffering a defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad after conceding 287/3, the highest total in the history of the IPL. Although some of the batters from RCB, including the likes of Virat Kohli, captain Faf du Plessis, and Dinesh Karthik, have found themselves amongst the runs, their bowling lineup has been a massive letdown in the tournament thus far.
IPL 2024 Squad of Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Faf du Plessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan.
Match Prediction
Conclusion
Kolkata Knight Riders are playing some scintillating cricket in the IPL 2024, and their upcoming contest against Royal Challengers Bengaluru shouldn’t prove to be a tough one for them to win because of the contrasting forms of both teams.
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