Schedule
Match : Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Series : Indian Premier League, 2021
Date : 18-04-2021, 3:30 PM IST
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Last Hour Update :
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat first.
No change in team 1.
Team 2 uploaded.
Head to Head Performance Over All:
RCB KOL
Matches 26 26
Won 12 14
Lost 14 12
NR 0 0
Highest Total 213 222
Lowest Total 49 84
Last 5 Head to Head Clashes :
- RCB won by 8 wickets.
- RCB won by 82 runs.
- RCB won by 10 runs.
- KKR won by 5 wickets.
- KKR won by 6 wickets.
Match Analysis :
This is going to be the 1st double header of the 14th Edition of IPL between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders. Royal Challengers Bangalore as of now were the only team who is unbeaten this edition till now. They have won 2 out of 2 matched played so far.
Inclusion of Glenn Maxwell in the team did wonders for Royal Challengers Bangalore as well as for his personal record also. He finally got a fifty after 5 innings. Till now Glenn Maxwell played tremendous innings with his bat only, Royal Challengers Bangalore were expecting him to show impress bowling also.
For RCB Harshal Patel has been lethal with hid Yorkers and clever with his change of pace and leading the bowling attack from the front. Only concern is Yuzvendra Chahal hasn’t been among the wickets, while proving to be costly. RCB will be expecting him to perform well and get some wickets for his team. Mohammed Siraj has been the most economical bowler for the Royal Challengers Bangalore till now. He had economy less than 6 which is quite impressive for a T20 match, although he has only picked up 2 wickets only. His best figure was against the Kolkata Knight Riders i.e. 3 for 8 runs.
RCB skipper Virat Kohli has scored 66 runs in two games at a strike rate of 113.8 which is not very usual with Virat. He got start in both the innings but failed to convert in big ones. However, against the Kolkata Knight Riders he has decent numbers. In 23 innings, Virat has scored 725 runs at an average of 40.28 and strike rate of 130.16. He has 4 half centuries and a century as well.
Kolkata Knight Riders were low on confidence because of the defeat in the last match against Mumbai Indians. Despite dominating proceedings for large parts of the game, their middle order concerns creeped up yet again to hand them a loss.
The Eoin Morgan-led side will once again bank on Nitish Rana, who has two fifties in two innings so far, to get them off to a flier. KKR’s number three batsman Rahul Tripathi looked in good nick during their first game, striking 53 off just 29, and will be another key figure as far the batting is concerned. But the area of concern is the middle order who is still not performing at his best. They are looking at the likes of Eoin Morgan and Dinesh Kartik to do well in the middle. Although Dinesh Karthik had a handy cameo of 22 runs in the 1st match.
As far as bowling is concerned both Prasidh Krishna and Pat Cummins have three wickets to their name, but the Australian speedster has been the most economical of the KKR bowlers. Andre Russell had a tremendous outing with the bowl in the last match. He took 5 for 15 runs in just 2 over spell. In spin department only Shakib Al Hasan did well with the ball.
Top Picks for Fantasy 11 :
Nitish Rana, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Maxwell, Ab de Villiers, Shakib Al Hasan, Andre Russell, Harshal Patel, Pat Cummins, Mohammed Siraj
Top pick for Captain/ Vice Captain :
Captain - Nitish Rana, Virat Kohli, Ab de Villiers
Vice Captain - Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Glenn Maxwell
Venue :
10th match of IPL will be held at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. At this Chepauk ground we have witnessed low scoring matches because of slow track. It always helped the spinners the most. 165 - 185 will be very competitive score at this venue.
Temperature will be around between 32°C and 27°C.
IPL record at this Venue:
Total Matches Played : 12
Lowest Total : 70/10
Highest Total : 179/4
Avg Score : 145
Squad :
Royal Challengers Bangalore : Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Harshal Patel, Daniel Sams, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kane Richardson, Pavan Deshpande, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Dan Christian, Suyesh Prabhudessai, K.S. Bharat, Finn Allen
Kolkata Knight Riders : Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Pawan Negi, Tim Seifert, Shakib al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer
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