Both of RCB’s wins have been built on tight bowling from the unit and individual brilliance. In the first game it was Harshal Patel who delivered a fantastic final over of the Mumbai Indians’ innings in which only 1 run was scored and 4 wickets fell. Against Sunrisers Hyderabad, they looked all set for their first defeat of the campaign before Shahbaz Ahmed took the wickets of Jonny Bairstow, Manish Pandey and Abdul Samad during the 17th over and take them from 115-2 to 116-5. With the bat, the surfaces haven’t been conducive for big scores but Glenn Maxwell has already hit 98 runs, 10 runs shy of his entire total from the 2020 season.
KKR have also produced brilliance with the ball, Andre Russell following up Harshal Patel’s 5-27 against Mumbai Indians with his own 5-15 from 2 overs. However, Russell’s five wickets didn’t produce a victory. The win against Sunrisers Hyderabad saw Prasidh Krishna take the leading role with 2-35. With the bat, 137 of KKR’s 329 runs so far in the tournament have been scored by Nitish Rana. Rahul Tripathi’s 29-ball 53 is the only other individual score above 50 for Eoin Morgan’s team.
RCB will now have Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson available after completing their quarantine periods. KKR are yet to use the pace of Lockie Ferguson but are perhaps saving him for more conducive pitches later on in the tournament.
RCB vs KKR Win Probability
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RCB vs KKR T20 Match Prediction & Betting Tips, IPL 2021
Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to keep up their 100% record in this year’s tournament as they take on Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai. RCB have already seen off current holders Mumbai Indians and bottom of the table Sunrisers Hyderabad, next up is Eoin Morgan’s KKR. Kolkata have played the same two teams and won their first game against Sunrisers Hyderabad but came up short against Mumbai Indians. Read on as we preview this clash of the 2021 IPL. The match will be played at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium and will get underway at 15:30 local time.
Both of RCB’s wins have been built on tight bowling from the unit and individual brilliance. In the first game it was Harshal Patel who delivered a fantastic final over of the Mumbai Indians’ innings in which only 1 run was scored and 4 wickets fell. Against Sunrisers Hyderabad, they looked all set for their first defeat of the campaign before Shahbaz Ahmed took the wickets of Jonny Bairstow, Manish Pandey and Abdul Samad during the 17th over and take them from 115-2 to 116-5. With the bat, the surfaces haven’t been conducive for big scores but Glenn Maxwell has already hit 98 runs, 10 runs shy of his entire total from the 2020 season.
KKR have also produced brilliance with the ball, Andre Russell following up Harshal Patel’s 5-27 against Mumbai Indians with his own 5-15 from 2 overs. However, Russell’s five wickets didn’t produce a victory. The win against Sunrisers Hyderabad saw Prasidh Krishna take the leading role with 2-35. With the bat, 137 of KKR’s 329 runs so far in the tournament have been scored by Nitish Rana. Rahul Tripathi’s 29-ball 53 is the only other individual score above 50 for Eoin Morgan’s team.
RCB will now have Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson available after completing their quarantine periods. KKR are yet to use the pace of Lockie Ferguson but are perhaps saving him for more conducive pitches later on in the tournament.
Although they have won both games so far, neither of RCB’s wins have been by a particularly big margin. However, getting over the line is all that is important in IPL cricket and you can not argue with two wins from two. The positive for Virat Kohli’s team is that there is still plenty of improvement still to come and with Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson now in the group, they have a rich squad of players to select from.
KKR should really be coming into this game with a 100% record of their own after throwing away a position of dominance against Mumbai Indians. Their openers put on 72 in 8.5 overs before the remaining 6 wickets contributed 70 runs from 11.1. Once their lower middle order begin to fire then KKR will really start to show what they are capable of.
RCB vs KKR T20 Match Live streaming
TV channels: The match can be watched live on Star Sports in India, Sky Cricket in the UK and Willow TV in the USA
Live Streaming: Fans in India can stream the match on Disney+ Hotstar.
RCB vs KKR Match Toss Prediction
The captains like to chase and we don’t envisage either Virat Kohli or Eoin Morgan changing the habit of all the skippers in the tournament so far.
RCB vs KKR Match Pitch Report
Tough to bat on with most players struggling to read the pace of the wicket. We again expect a relatively low scoring game with spin and pace-off bowling to come to the fore.
Weather Report
The sun will be shining and the temperature around 33 degrees in this earlier than usual game.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL 2021.
RCB Team News & Playing 11
RCB Team News
RCB made one change from their first game victory over Mumbai Indians, Rajat Patidar making way for Devdutt Padikkal. Adam Zampa could be a very handy option in Chennai but none of their bowlers have let the side down as yet in the tournament.
RCB Key Players
Virat Kohli - he’s been dismissed on 33 from 29 balls in both games and each time he has hit 4 fours and 0 sixes. He will consider these to have both been failures but the team has won each game. There are many more runs to come from Virat for sure.
Glenn Maxwell - the Aussie all-rounder is a changed man in the colours of RCB after a disappointing IPL with Kings XI Punjab last year. A half-century and a 39 is an excellent start for the man who will be looking to emulate the 552 runs he scored in the 2014 IPL.
Mohammed Siraj - his stock has risen considerably since making his Test debut in Melbourne last December. So far his economy rate is at an impressive 5.87 and he will be looking to improve on last year’s return of 11 wickets.
RCB Team Form
Certainly the form side in this year’s IPL with the only 100% record so far. They have turned around their miserable end to the 2020 competition where they lost their final five games.
RCB Predicted Playing 11
Virat Kohli (c) , Devdutt Padikkal, Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), Washington Sundar, Daniel Christian, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
RCB vs KKR Dream11 Team Prediction, Captain, Vice Captain
Wicket-keeper
AB de Villiers (10) and Dinesh Karthik (8.5) will be our wicketkeepers. de Villiers missed out in the last game but will be back in the runs very soon no doubt.
Batsmen
Virat Kohli (10.5), Nitish Rana (9) and Rahul Tripathi (8) are our batsmen. Rana can do no wrong this year and Virat will go beyond 33 sooner rather than later
All-rounders
We’ve selected Glenn Maxwell (9) and Andre Russell (10) as our all-rounders. Both have had an excellent start to the tournament.
Bowlers
Pat Cummins (9), Kyle Jamieson (8.5), Varun Chakravarthy (8.5) and Mohammed Siraj (8.5) make up our bowling attack. Siraj has been a joy to watch in the 2020 IPL so far.
Captain/Vice-captain
Nitish Rana will be captain, his deputy will be Virat Kohil.
Bowler:Pat Cummins, Kyle Jamieson, Varun Chakravarthy, Mohammed Siraj
RCB vs KKR Match Prediction
KKR Team News & Playing 11
KKR Team News
KKR have selected the same XI in both of their games so far with differing outcomes. There is always the option to throw Lockie Ferguson into the action but they may choose to stick with the same team who arguably should have won two out of two.
KKR Key Players
Nitish Rana - Mr Consistent with the bat for KKR and 137 runs so far in this year’s competition. After hitting between 304 and 352 runs across the last four IPLs, this year could see him aiming for the Orange Cap.
Andre Russell - the Caribbean all-rounder already has as many wickets in this year’s IPL than he picked up in 10 games last year. If KKR can get his batting going as well then they will be near the top of the league.
Eoin Morgan - KKR’s captain is yet to hit the heights of his power hitting from the 2020 IPL. However, whether performing for KKR or England, Morgan is always worth so much more than his weight in runs. As a leader, they don’t come much calmer under pressure.
KKR Team Form
KKR’s lack of consistency cost them a place in the playoffs in the 2020 IPL and they are already showing signs of the same in IPL 2021. We always expect runs from Rana but never know exactly which KKR will turn up.
KKR Predicted Playing 11
Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Andre Russell, Eoin Morgan (c) , Dinesh Karthik, Shakib Al Hasan, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy
RCB vs KKR Team Form in Last Five Matches
RCB : WWLLL
KKR : LWWLL
RCB vs KKR Head to Head
After 26 IPL matches KKR have a small lead over RCB.
RCB vs KKR Head to Head Stats in IPL T20
Matches Played
RCB Won
KKR Won
Tie
No Result
26
12
14
0
0
RCB vs KKR Betting Odds
RCB are the favourites to win this game with the bookmakers
Who will win RCB vs KKR IPL T20 Match?
Virat Kohli and Nitish Rana are expected to produce the big runs on either side
We are backing Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Glenn Maxwell with the bat for RCB. They have all made useful contributions so far and a big score from all three is not far away.
For KKR we are backing Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana and Eoin Morgan. The skipper has only 9 runs so far and it is only a matter of time before he comes up with the goods.
We are backing Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel and Mohammed Siraj to do the damage with the ball for RCB. Patel already has more wickets than in his last 2 IPL tournaments combined.
For KKR we have gone with Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy and Andre Russell. Can Russell produce another dream spell and pick up another 5 wicket haul?
Will Virat Kohli’s intensity reign supreme over Eoin Morgan’s calmness in this game? RCB certainly come into the game on the crest of a wave but both teams have additional levels of performance to raise their games to. We are backing KKR to build on Nitish Rana’s runs and come away with a victory in this match.
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Bappi Roy
Rcb
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Ashikur
Kolkata have enough firepower in their batting and bowling and they upper hand over Bangalore
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Bappi Roy
The inform team of rcb led by kohli is the only team in ipl this season who have won both their matches and they will continue their form against kkr also
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Sopon
I think this is will be high scoring game
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Ali hossain
Kolkata have big hitter compared to rcb and the form of nitish rana will be a huge advantage for them
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Hari
Rcb is in top form and stopping them will not be easy for kolkata. Andre russel have to show some good hands with batting also to stop rcb winning three matches in a row
Apr 18, 2021
15:30 IST / 10:00 GMT
MA Chidambaram Stadium - Chennai, India
Rcb
Kolkata have enough firepower in their batting and bowling and they upper hand over Bangalore
The inform team of rcb led by kohli is the only team in ipl this season who have won both their matches and they will continue their form against kkr also
I think this is will be high scoring game
Kolkata have big hitter compared to rcb and the form of nitish rana will be a huge advantage for them
Rcb is in top form and stopping them will not be easy for kolkata. Andre russel have to show some good hands with batting also to stop rcb winning three matches in a row