KKR VS RCB Match preview
Virat Kohli is set to play his 200th ipl game and also the fifth player to achieve the landmark.
Rcb has announced four replacements and Wanindu Hasaranga the leg spinner from Sri Lanka could be making his debut against KKr.
RCb has had a really good season with 5 wins out of the 7 games they played and are at 3rd position in the points Table.
The Main bowler for Rcb has been Harshal patel who has picked 17 wickets out of the 7 matches he played this season and he would like to continue his wicket taking form.
The last time these two teams met RCb has won the match by 38 runs with Glenn Maxwell and Ab de Villiers scoring 76 and 78 runs respectively and Kyle jameison picked up 3 wickets.
KkR has lost their main player Pat Cummins as he withdrew from the ipl and Lockie Ferguson is set to play ahead of Tim southee.
Kkr campaign this season has been poor with 2 wins out of the 7 games they played.
The batting performances has been a worry for KKR especially the Top order performing inconsistently has led them down and they will be hoping to Make a comeback in this phase of the ipl where every game is a Crucial one in order to reach the play-offs.
KKR vs RCB Match Details
Venue – Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
Date – 20th september 2021
Time – 7:30 PM IST
KKR vs RCB Pitch Report
The pitches in Abu Dhabi are generally batting friendly and pacers find some assistance from these pitches than spinners.A high scoring match can be expected and teams prefer to chase on this ground.
Average first innings score – 162 22 matches in ipl(2020) played at Abu Dhabi.
KKR vs RCB
Head to head record
These two teams have played 27 matches among which KKR has won 14 and RCB has won 13.
Last 5 Matches H2H record
RCb – W,W,W,W,L
KKR – L,L,L,L,W
KKR vs RCB predicted Playing 11
Kolkata: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Lockie Ferguson, Venkatesh iyer, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy
Bangalore: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, KS Bharath Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), S, W Hasaranga ,Kyle Jamieson, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
KKR vs RCB Player Stats
Royal challengers Bangalore
Kohli has scored 730 runs from 27 games at a strike rate of 129.66 against KKR. He also has a century against Kkr which he scored at Kolkata.
Glenn Maxwell has scored 223 Runs in the 7 matches he played this season with a high score of 78 and he has been in good form and is the player to watch out.
Ab de Villiers has scored 207 Runs this season striking at 150.46 and he his recent performances in the practice match has been good.
Chahal has scalped 16 wickets against Kkr with a best of 3/16.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Dinesh Karthik has scored 421 runs against Rcb with a strike rate of 116.29 and could be a match winner.
Sunil Narine has scalped 16 wickets against Rcb with a best bowling figures of 4/20 and he also has the record of fastest 50 for kkr which was scored against RCb.
Nitish Rana has scored 288 Runs against Rcb striking at 126.87.
Andre Russell the big west indian All rounder is a threat to any opponent on his day. Rusell has a very good record against RCb and he has played a few match winning knocks one of such knock was that where he scored 48 runs of just 13 balls.
KKR vs RCB Top fantasy Picks
Virat Kohli (10.5 credits)
Glenn Maxwell (9 credits)
Ab de Villiers ( 10 credits)
Sunil Narine( 9 Credits)
Nitish Rana( 9 Credits)
Andre Russell ( 10.5 credits)
KKR vs RCB ( Differential picks)
Rahul Tripathi (8.5 credits)
Kyle jameison (8.5 credits)
Dinesh Karthik (8.5 credits)
KkR vs RCB Top captaincy and vice captaincy choices
Glenn Maxwell
Ab de Villiers
Sunil Narine
Andre Russell
Virat kohli
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