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The 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) starts today. The first match of the tournament will be played between defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in Kolkata.
The last season of the league was played between Kolkata and Hyderabad. In this, Kolkata defeated Hyderabad by 8 wickets and won the IPL title for the third time. At the same time, Bengaluru is looking for the first title.
Match details, first match KKR vs RCB date: 22 March Stadium: Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
Kolkata ahead in head to head Kolkata Head to Head is heavy on Bengaluru. 35 IPL matches have been played between the two. Kolkata in 21 and Bangalore in 14 won. Both teams won 12 times at Eden Gardens, 8 times KKR and RCB won only 4 times.
World Class all -rounders in Kolkata Kolkata’s command has been handed over to experienced Ajinkya Rahane after Shreyas Iyer was out. All -rounders are named after Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh and Venkatesh Iyer. The team also has great bowlers like Varun Chakraborty, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora and Harshit Rana.
Match winners like Hazelwood-Bhubaneswar near Bengaluru Bengaluru has often struggled with its bowlers in the IPL, but the team has included match winners like Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar for this season. However, there is a shortage of spinners winning the match in the team, Krunal Pandya is the most experienced spinner in the team. The franchise has made silver Patidar captain for IPL 2025.
Pitch report The pitch of Eden Gardens Stadium is batting friendly. So far 93 IPL matches have been played in this stadium. Here the teams who batting first have won 38 matches and the chase teams have won 55 matches. The highest team score of this stadium is 262/2, which was made by Punjab Kings against Kolkata last year.
The ground was covered with covers due to rain on the night of 21 March at the Eden Gardens.
Weather condition The weather of Kolkata will not be correct on 22 March. There is a possibility of rain in some parts in the morning. It will be cloudy throughout the day, 74% of rain is feared. The temperature here is expected to be between 21 and 28 degrees on this day.
Possible playing-11 of both teams Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Sunil Naren, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi/Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarti.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patidar (Captain), Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Liam Livingston, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, and Suyash Sharma.
Where can you watch the match The match will be on the live streaming geiographs app and website. At the same time, Broadcast will also be done on Star Sports Network and Network 18 channels on TV.