RCB vs KKR IPL 2024 Match Preview, Head-to-head, Possible XIs and Dream11 Team Prediction

• Matches: 32
• Kolkata Knight Riders Won: 18
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru Won: 14
• No Result: 0

• Matches: 11
• Kolkata Knight Riders Won: 7
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru Won: 4
• No Result: 0

Team News

Royal Challengers Bangalore

RCB replaced Karn Sharma with Mahipal Lomror to extend their batting in the last game and it worked. Lomror scored 17 runs off eight balls to help RCB win the game. They are expected to go with the same plan, with Cameron Green and Glenn Maxwell playing the all-rounder role. Although Maxwell and Green both failed in the first two games to impress the fans. It will be interesting to see how much time they are going to get to settle in. Reece Topley may replace Alzarri Joseph in the bowling as the latter had been proved to be very expensive in the first two games.

Virat Kohli played a match-winning in the last match and is expected to do the same but he will also need some help from the other batters. Dinesh Karthik is looking brilliant as a finisher and he will be there to do the cleaning in the death overs but if RCB wants to improve their record against KKR, they'll have to perform more like a team and not rely on the individual skillsets. Mohammed Siraj and Yash Dayal both are set to lead the bowling unit after delivering a perfect performance in the last game against PBKS.

Royal Challenge Packaged Drinking Water Moment of the Day 📸

Our Southpaws in Symphony! 🔥

Flexing their muscle power in the nets 💪#PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #IPL2024 #Choosebold pic.twitter.com/DhgbryRIc1

— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) March 28, 2024

Kolkata Knight Riders

Andre Russell was just unstoppable in the last game and it will be very difficult for RCB to stop him on a pitch like Bangalore. Phil Salt struck a half-century against SRH but Sunil Narine, Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, and Nitish Rana all failed to contribute anything to the team. Ramandeep Singh had a brilliant outing and then Andre Russell did the rest. Rinku Singh is coming after a brilliant season and also started well against SRH. He will try to contribute more against RCB and will have to remain consistent throughout the season if he wants to get selected for the upcoming T20 World Cup. The KKR management would be hoping for their middle order to perform this time and on paper KKR have a really strong batting unit.

The hustle before El Primero 🔥 pic.twitter.com/7b0wSVPGm0

— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) March 28, 2024

Harshit Rana and Sunil Narine bowled superbly in the last game and Harshit eventually helped his side win the match. Russell also got his hands upon two wickets but star bowler Mitchell Starc went down as the most expensive one. He will try to improve against his ex-franchise but it will be very tough to get something from the Bangalore pitch.

Possible XIs

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli (C), RM Patidar, GJ Maxwell, C Green, Anuj Rawat (wk), Dinesh Karthik, MJ Dagar, Alzarri Joseph, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal

Impact Player Subs: SS Prabhudessai, S Chauhan, MK Lomror, M Bhandage, Swapnil Singh, TK Curran, WG Jacks, Vijaykumar Vyshak, RJW Topley, Rajan Kumar, Himanshu Sharma, LH Ferguson, KV Sharma, Akash Deep

Kolkata Knight Riders: SP Narine, PD Salt (wk), VR Iyer, S Iyer (C), N Rana, Ramandeep Singh, RK Singh, AD Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Mitchell Starc, H Rana

Impact Player Subs: KS Bharat, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sakib Hussain, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, AS Roy, Sherfane Rutherford, Vaibhav Arora, C Sakariya, D Chameera, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Suyash Sharma

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