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The 58th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The match will begin at 7:30 pm at the Home Ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
Both teams will be face to face for the second time in the season. The first match of this season was played between the two teams. In that match, Bengaluru defeated Kolkata by 7 wickets.
Points in the second number in the table, RCB would like to further strengthen their position in knockout. The team has 16 points with 8 wins in 11 matches. Although Gujarat has won the same match at number one, but the net run rate is a bit better than Bengaluru. At the same time, for Kolkata, who has lost 6 out of 12 matches, this match is of do or die in terms of playoffs. If the team loses, it will officially become the fourth team to be out of the playoff race.
Match details, 58th match RCB vs kkr date- 17 May Stadium- M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
Kolkata ahead in head to head
In the IPL, 36 matches have been played between Bengaluru and Kolkata so far. Out of which KKR has won 21 matches, while RCB has won 15 matches. 13 matches have been played between the two teams at M Chinnaswamy Stadium so far. In this, Bengaluru has won only 4 matches and Kolkata has won 9 matches.
Kohli can become the top scorer today
Virat Kohli has scored the most runs from RCB. He will also become the top run scorer of the tournament as soon as he scored 6 runs. Josh Hazlewood is the top bowler of the team with 18 wickets. He could not play the previous match due to injury. If Hazlewood plays today, you can become the top wicket of the tournament with 3 wickets. Hazelwood may be out of the tournament due to injury. However, it has not been officially confirmed.
Rahane Kolkata’s top batter
Captain Ajinkya Rahane has been the team’s most successful batter for KKR, scoring 375 runs in 12 matches. During this, Rahane has also installed 3 fifty. Most of the wickets for the team have been taken by mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty. He has taken 17 wickets from the economy of 7. After him, Vaibhav Arora took 16 wickets and Harshit Rana has taken 15 wickets.
IPL was postponed for 8 days due to tension from Pakistan The IPL had to be suspended on 9 May due to tension with Pakistan. BCCI stopped the tournament and said that the country is currently in a state of war. In such a situation, it is not right to organize a cricket tournament. The match between Punjab and Delhi in Dharamshala on May 8 had to be stopped in the midst of attacks from Pakistan. The match will now be played in Jaipur on 24 May.
Pitch report In this match, the pitch of M Chinnaswamy Stadium will be favorable to the batsmen, but due to rain, a challenge can also be made for him here. The boundary is small, so it will be easy to apply big shots. Spinners will get more help than fast bowlers here. A total of 100 IPL matches were played in this stadium. The first batting team won 43 matches and the first bowling team also won 53 matches. 4 matches should also be inconclusive. The ground’s highest team score is 287/3, which was made by Sunrisers Hyderabad against Royal Challengers Bangalore last year.
Weather report Bangalore is expected to have strong rains on Saturday. The possibility of rain on 17 May is up to 84%. Today, there will be clouds throughout the day and there will be a lot of heat. The temperature is expected to be 22 to 31 ° C.
Possible playing-12 Royal Challengers Bangalore (captain) of both teams, Rajat Patadir (Captain), Jacob Bethel, Virat Kohli, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Romio Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Lungi Enggidi, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma, Mayank Agarwal.