The Indian cricket team last lost at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata in 2012. Team India has lost only one test here in the last 25 years. This can give relief to Shubman Gill and the team but there is a record against them also, Temba Bavuma has never lost any test as captain. How will the weather be in Kolkata on the first day of the first Test starting on Friday? Read the weather report.

Temba Bavuma has played 10 tests as captain, out of which South Africa team has won 9 times and one test ended in a draw. This will be Shubman Gill’s 8th Test as captain, he has won both the last matches played in India whereas in England he won 2 out of 5 and lost 2, one was a draw.

Shubman Gill believes that it will not be easy to defeat South Africa, because they are the current champions of WTC and are coming after ending the last Test series in Asia in a draw.

How is Team India’s test record in Kolkata?

The history of Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata is very old, the first Test was played here in 1934. Here India has played a total of 42 tests, out of which it has won 13 and lost 9. 20 tests have been drawn.

Since 2000, India has played 12 Tests at Eden Gardens, winning 8 and losing only 1 (to England in 2012). 3 tests were drawn.

How will the pitch of Eden Gardens Stadium be?

Shubman Gill said about the pitch in the press conference on Thursday that it looks like a typical Indian pitch. Let us tell you that spinners have dominated here in history, the bowler who has taken the most wickets here is Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble is at second place. Turn can be seen here, spinners can create problems.

Weather report for the first day of India vs South Africa Kolkata Test

The weather report is good for the match, there is no possibility of rain in Kolkata on Friday. According to Accuweather, there is no chance of rain tomorrow. The temperature is expected to be 26 to 28 degrees during the day. This means that each session will start and end at its own time.

The toss of India vs South Africa first test will take place at 9 am. The match will start at 9:30 am on all five days. The match will be telecast live on Star Sports Network and live streaming will be on JioHotstar app and website.

Leading #TeamIndia in his first Test outing at the iconic Eden Gardens

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— BCCI (@BCCI) November 13, 2025

India and South Africa squad

India: Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel (wicket keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket keeper), Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj.

South Africa: Dewald Brewis, Temba Bavuma (captain), Tony De Jorji, Tristan Stubbs, Zuboor Hamza, Aiden Markram, Corbin Bosch, Marco Janssen, Senuran Muthusamy, Willem Mulder, Kyle Vergne (wk), Ryan Rickelton (wk), Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Simon Harmer.

Eden gardens pitch report: The 44th match of IPL 2025 is going to be held between Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday, 26 April. After winning this match, the Punjab Kings would like to strengthen their grip in the playoff race. At the same time, Kolkata Knight Riders are looking for a comeback this season after two defeats. This match between PBKS and KKR will be played at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. This match will start at 7:30 pm today.

How far ahead in points table?

Both Kolkata and Punjab teams have played eight matches so far. Shreyas Iyer has won five out of 8 matches, while the team has suffered defeat in three matches. On the contrary, KKR has won only three out of 8 matches and this team has lost five matches so far.

How is the season of Eden Gardens?

The season of Eden Gardens is quite hot, which can bother both teams. The pitch of this stadium in Kolkata is considered better for batting mostly. This pitch remains on the flat surface and it continues to bounce. The remaining final report of the pitch will be revealed before the match. It has to be seen which team plays on this ground today.

Who ahead in the head to head?

Whenever the team of Punjab and Kolkata has come out in the IPL, both teams have seen a thorn in a thorn. But in the results of the match, Kolkata has won. Both teams have played 13 IPL matches so far, in which Kolkata has won 9 matches, while Punjab was overwhelmed in only four matches.

Punjab Kings potential playing XI

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narayan, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Moin Ali/Rovman Powell, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarti, Harshit Rana.

Impact Player- Vaibhav Arora

Kolkata Knight Riders’ potential playing XI

Prabhasimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Josh English (wicketkeeper), Nehal Vadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Johnson, Xavier Bartlet, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Impact Player- Harpreet Brar

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Kkr vs srh pitch report: The Indian Premier League 2025 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad today. Both teams had fought in the final (2024) last time, in which KKR won the title by defeating SRH. Today, to avenge the same defeat, Pat Cummins and Team will field. This match at Eden Gardens is important for KKR because he lost the first match of the season in this stadium. Know how is the pitch of the match to be held today? Who will get more help in batsmen or bowlers here and what should the captain who win the toss here decide?

Both teams are not in good position in the points table right now. Kolkata Knight Riders, captained by Ajinkya Rahane, lost the first match at Eden Gardens. After that, Rajasthan defeated Royals but lost badly to Mumbai Indians in the third match. Right now the team is at number 10 in the points table. Hyderabad won the first match but after that both of them lost the match. The team is ranked 8th in the table.

IPL record of Eden Gardens

94 matches of IPL have been played at the Eden Gardens Stadium. Out of these, 38 times the first batting and 56 times the bowling team has won. The team has won 50 times, whose captain won the toss and the captain has won 44 times the losing team.

In the IPL, the biggest personal score on this ground in Kolkata is that of silver Patidar, who scored 112 runs against Lucknow while playing for RCB in 2022. The best bowling spell here is that of Sunil Naren, who took 5 wickets against Punjab Kings in 2012.

The largest team in the Eden Gardens Stadium is Total 262 runs, which was created by Punjab Kings in 2024 against Kolkata Knight Riders. The smallest score is 49, which RCB made against KKR.

How will the Eden Gardens Pitch Report be?

Eden Gardens will see a good bounce, although this pitch will give more help to the batsmen than the bowlers. Spinners will get help, but the outfield is fast here, so the batsmen can run fast by playing grounded shots. Batting first, you will have to try here and make a score of 220 or 230. If less than 200 scores are scored, then the team batting in the second innings can easily chase runs.

First batting or bowling? Eden Gardens What decision is right?

It will be easy to chase the target at Eden Gardens. The dew plays a big role here, so the bowlers will have a more challenge in the second innings. The captain who won the toss should decide to bowl first.

Eden gardens pitch for ipl 2025: Defending champion Kolkata Knight Riders under the captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane has not started well in IPL 2025. The first match he lost at his home ground (Eden Gardens). RCB defeated him by 7 wickets in this match. After this match, Ajinkya Rahane’s statement came that he would like to see the spin bowlers on the pitch. However, this indirect demand of KKR has been rejected by the pitch curator of Eden Gardens.

After the defeat of RCB, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane said in the press conference that he would like to see the spin bowlers getting help. He had said, “We would like to see the spin bowlers on the pitch getting help. But then I would say that this pitch had been covered for the last one and a half days. The two spinners we have are fantastic and are able to bowl on any wicket. I am confident that he is full of confidence.”

The pitch curator also refuses to change

Swelling Mukherjee has denied any change on the pitch, talking to Revspports. He said, “According to the Rule and Regulation of the IPL, the franchise has no control on the pitch. Ever since I am, the pitch here is like this. It was earlier also. Now things will not change and not in future either.”

Mukherjee also said that RCB spinners took 4 wickets in this match. Krunal Pandya took 3 wickets. Suyash Sharma also took the important wicket of Andre Russell.

Let us tell you that in this match, Krunal Pandya took 3 important wickets including Ajinkya Rahane. He also dismissed Rinku Singh and Venkatesh Iyer. He was voted the best player of the match for this great performance.