IPL Preview: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

Sport360 staff 00:29 23/04/2017
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    Two fiery characters in Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli will face off against each other as Kolkata Knight Riders host Royal Challengers Bangalore at Eden Gardens in the late fixture on Sunday.

    The Knight Riders will be keen to bounce back after losing to the Gujarat Lions in their previous game. On the other hand, the Royal Challengers are coming off a victory and will need to put a winning run together if they are to stay alive in the competition.

    Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, start time and date, as well as how you can watch all the action from the UAE.


    DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO

    Date: April 23, 2017 (Sunday)

    Time: 18:30 GST, 20:00 local time (IST), 14:30 GMT

    Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata


    WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO

    TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports

    Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)

    LIVE: Sport360.com


    TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs

    KKR SQUAD: Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Andre Russell, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Trent Boult, Chris Woakes, Rishi Dhawan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rovman Powell, R Sanjay Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Darren Bravo, Sayan Ghosh, Colin de Grandhomme

    Kolkata have a settled batting line-up now as the move to open with Sunil Narine looks to be a hit for the time being.

    It’ll be a surprise if the Knight Riders make any changes for this one, but they could be tempted to bring Trent Boult back into the team.

    PREDICTED KKR XI: Gambhir (c), Narine, Uthappa (wk), Pandey, Pathan, Suryakumar, Shakib, Woakes, Kuldeep, Coulter-Nile, Umesh

    RCB SQUAD: Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sreenath Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdullah, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Pawan Negi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Choudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake, Vishnu Vinod, Harpreet Singh

    The Royal Challengers are expected to have AB de Villiers, Samuel Badree, and Tymal Mills available for this match, throwing up an interesting selection dilemma for them.

    While Shane Watson is likely to be left out after some poor performances this season, Travis Head made useful contributions with bat and ball in the last match and it’ll be harsh on the Australian if he is dropped.

    Head could be included in the line-up though, if RCB decide to go with an all-India pace attack which will be a risky ploy.

    PREDICTED RCB XI: Kohli (c), Gayle, de Villiers, Jadhav, Mandeep, Binny, Negi, Badree, Aravind, Mills, Chahal


    FORM

    (Last five matches – with latest match first)

    KKR: L W W W L

    RCB: W L L L W


    MATCH PREDICTION

    Kolkata look to have a much more balanced team and hence, we are predicting a win for the hosts.

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