Rcb vs kkr: IPL 2025 is starting again today. The match of RCB and Kolkata Knight Riders will be played in Bengaluru. The fanbase of Royal Challengers Bangalore is in crores and when the match is happening in Bangalore, the entire ground starts to look red due to fans wearing RCB jersey. All this is going to change on May 17 because on this day the M Chinnaswamy Stadium will be painted with white, not red. Know here why this will happen?

Chinnaswamy Stadium will be white

This case is related to Virat Kohli’s Test retirement. After the suspension, IPL 2025 is returning, where RCB will be seen playing in the first match. Meanwhile, a video has surfaced on social media, where fans are going to be seen in white jersey to give a tribute to Virat Kohli.

People have prepared a separate jersey in honor of Virat Kohli. Behind this white T-shirt, Virat Kohli’s name, his jersey number and a special message below it is also written. Below the jersey number is written ‘Tribute to the King Kohli’.

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Kkr vs rcb live match: The 58th match of IPL 2025 will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Saturday, 17 May. The IPL is starting once again after Operation Sindoor. Today’s match will be played at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. In today’s match, rain can bring a lot of rain. Bangalore has been raining for the last several days.

Points table RCB-KKR on which number?

If you look at the IPL points table, RCB is at number two this season and KKR is on 6th. Kolkata’s team has played 12 matches so far, in which the team has won 5 matches and lost 6. At the same time, a match of KKR was drawn. The team has achieved 11 points so far. It is very important to win today’s match to KKR to reach the playoffs. The cancellation of the match is also a loss of Kolkata team.

The team of Royal Challengers Bangalore has played 11 matches so far, in which the team won 8 matches and lost 3. If Bengaluru wins today’s match, then the points will top the points table with 18 points and RCB has no loss even after the match was canceled. The team will also top the table with 17 points.

Who ahead in the head to head?

Kolkata and Bangalore have come face to face 35 times in the history of IPL, in which KKR has won 20 times, while RCB has defeated Kolkata 15 times. At the same time, out of 20 wins of Kolkata, 12 times winning has come on the ground of Chinnaswamy. In the history of Kolkata, Bengaluru has dominated, but this season RCB is ahead of KKR in the playoffs race this season.

Kolkata Knight Riders’ potential playing XI

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Sunil Naren, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey/Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Adhikar Roy, Vaibhav Arora and Varun CV.

Impact Player- Harshit Rana.

Royal Challengers Bangalore’s possible playing XI

Virat Kohli, Phil Salat, Jacob Bethel, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Romio Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salaam/Lungi Angidi and Yash Dayal.

Impact Player- Suyash Sharma.