The stage is about for the first recreation of IPL 2025 to be performed between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). The Ajinkya Rahane-led aspect wunwell be internet hosting this encounter on March 22 on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
KKR are the defending champions and although they are going to be having a brand new chief in Ajinkya Rahane nonetheless have the identical core that received them the title final 12 months. The Knight Riders solely misplaced three video games final season and can wish to begin their title defence in fashion going into the match.
Talking of latest leaders, the RCB workforce introduced Rajat Patidar as their new skipper for the season and can as soon as once more hold their hopes of successful the trophy alive. RCB may need had an incredible comeback final season the place they managed to edge by means of to the playoffs successful six in a row however their probabilities of successful the title had been thwarted within the eliminator towards Rajasthan Royals (RR).
Pitch Report
The Eden Gardens would possibly give some help to the bowlers with some additional bounce, nevertheless it has principally been a batting-friendly wicket the place a lot of the matches have been received by the workforce bowling first. The due issue does play an enormous position on this venue the place the bowlers have trouble gripping the ball and the floor does probably not change a lot.
Climate report
The climate report for Kolkata doesn’t look promising. As per Saturday’s forecast, there are 75% likelihood of rain, which can spoil the temper of the followers. All would pray that the climate stays good, and the match might begin with none hitch. Each the gamers and the followers could be eager that the sport proceeds as scheduled, and never that the match begins with a cancelled recreation.
Squads
KKR: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer (vc), Moeen Ali, Vaibhav Arora, Quinton de Kock, Harshit Rana, Spencer Johnson, Mayank Markande, Sunil Narine, Anrich Nortje, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Chetan Sakariya, Rinku Singh, Luvnith Sisodia, Varun Chakravarthy.
RCB: Rajat Patidar (c), Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Bethell, Manoj Bhandage, Swastik Chikara, Tim David, Josh Hazlewood, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Liam Livingstone, Mohit Rathee, Lungi Ngidi, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Salam, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Nuwan Thushara, Yash Dayal.
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