Zoom News : Apr 06, 2023, 07:08 PM
RCB vs KKR: In the Indian Premier League (IPL), the league stage match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will start shortly. Bengaluru won the toss and chose fielding at the Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata. Both the teams have made one change each in their playing-11. This is the home ground of KKR. Kolkata team will play here for the first time after 2019. Last year the knockout matches were played here, but before that KKR was out of the league. On the other hand, KKR and RCB were face-to-face in the league stage last year, in which RCB won.Playing-11 of both the teams...Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana (Captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Wicket-keeper), Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, Suyash Arora.Impact Players: Anukul Roy, Mandeep Singh, Jagdishan, David Wiese.Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (Captain), Virat Kohli, Michael Bracewell, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, David Willey, Mohammed Siraj, Karn Sharma and Akash Deep.
Impact Players: Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Suyash Prabhudesai.
Pitch reportThe Eden Gardens pitch is famous for batting. High scoring T20 matches have happened here. But as the game progresses, it starts helping the bowlers too, especially the spinners. A total of 77 IPL matches have been played at Eden Gardens. Out of which the chasing team won 45 times, while the team batting first won 31 times and one match was no result. The average first innings score here is 160 runs. The high score here is 232, made by the home team Kolkata against Mumbai in 2019. The lowest score here is 49, which was made by Bengaluru against Kolkata in 2017.Weather conditionThe weather in Kolkata is expected to be warm on the day of the match. Thursday's temperature in Kolkata will be between 37 to 24 degree Celsius. it will not rain.
Impact Players: Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Suyash Prabhudesai.
Pitch reportThe Eden Gardens pitch is famous for batting. High scoring T20 matches have happened here. But as the game progresses, it starts helping the bowlers too, especially the spinners. A total of 77 IPL matches have been played at Eden Gardens. Out of which the chasing team won 45 times, while the team batting first won 31 times and one match was no result. The average first innings score here is 160 runs. The high score here is 232, made by the home team Kolkata against Mumbai in 2019. The lowest score here is 49, which was made by Bengaluru against Kolkata in 2017.Weather conditionThe weather in Kolkata is expected to be warm on the day of the match. Thursday's temperature in Kolkata will be between 37 to 24 degree Celsius. it will not rain.