The 35th match of Vivo IPL 2019 is here between Royals Challengers bangalore vs kolkata Knight Riders.As the race for the playoff spots heats up, both teams will be hoping to win the match Tonight.
Head to Head Overall Stats: The Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore have gone head to head in 24 fixtures and the Knight Riders lead the battle with 15 wins.
Previous IPL 2019 face-off: In their earlier Match between RCB and KKR. KKR won the match by 5 wickets.
Coming into the game, RCB will be concerned about their bowling attack which has continued to leak runs all through the season. In the previous outing, the RCB batsmen got their team off to a great start posting 205 on the board.
IPL points table:
RCB are currently 8th on the table. Kolkata have 8 points from their 8 games and find themselves in 6th position on the table. KKR had made a promising start to the season. But 3 losses in their last 4 games, two of which have come at home ground, have hurt them badly so they just want to consolidate .
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Pitch report: According to the Graeme Smith Expect lots of runs. The pitch here is known to assist the batting side. However, the pitch also has much to offer for the spinners and it will be great to see the KKR and RCB spin attack in action once .
Toss
Kolkata wins the Toss and elected to Bowl .
#KKR win the toss and elect to bowl first against the @RCBTweets #KKRvRCB pic.twitter.com/6eNS9JMliK— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 19, 2019
Teams:
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Parthiv Patel(w), Virat Kohli(c), Moeen Ali, Marcus Stoinis, Heinrich Klaasen, Akshdeep Nath, Pawan Negi, Dale Steyn, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Andre Russell, Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Harry Gurney.
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