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IPL 2025 1st match kkr vs rcb: The first match of IPL 2025 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. This match will be held at Eden Gardens on Saturday evening. KKR, a team captained by Ajinkya Rahane, is quite strong. At the same time, RCB will also be seen in new colors. The team’s captain is doing Rajat Patidar. If you look at the head to head records, KKR’s hand is heavy. Talking about RCB, he has many strong players, who can change the attitude of the match.
The weather will be a big challenge during the first match of the season. Kolkata received a lot of rain on Friday. It has also rained on Saturday morning. If it rains during the match, it can be badly affected. Opening ceremonies are also to be held before the match.
Kohli’s bat will run Ball or Varun will go wickets –
Both RCB and KKR have great players. So the match will be in collision. Virat has a good record in Eden Gardens. He has also scored a century in IPL here. The mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty will be on the home ground. They have also performed amazing. Varun has played 31 matches in IPL so far. During this, 36 wickets have been taken.
Head to head how is the record so far –
A total of 34 matches have been played between KKR and RCB so far. During this time Kolkata has won 20 matches. While Bangalore has won 14 matches. If we talk about the players who won the player of the match the most times among the two matches between the two, Chris Gayle is at the top. At the same time, Sunil Naren is also at number one with him. Both these players have won this title 4-4 times.
Many players can break records against RCB –
Sunil Naren has a chance to break the record of sixes. He has hit 97 sixes in the IPL. Naren will complete a century of sixes as soon as he hit 3 sixes. Naren can also complete 200 wickets for KKR. He has to take 2 more wickets for this. Andre Russell is close to completing 2500 runs. They need only 16 runs.
Potential 12 players for KKR and RCB matches –
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Naren, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Phil Salat, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazelwood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma/Rasikh Dar Salam
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