IPL 2021: Match Preview, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders

In the 10th match of IPL 2021, Royal Challengers Bangalore will be facing Kolkata Knight Riders at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Sunday. Royal Challengers Bangalore will be looking forward to reclaiming the 1st spot in the points table while Kolkata Knight Riders would be trying to come out from the despairing loss against Mumbai Indians.

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Match Number: 10th match of IPL 2021.

Match Between: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

Timing: Sunday, 18th April 2021, 3:30 PM IST.

Squads:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal, AB de Villiers(w), Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Azharuddin, Daniel Christian, Washington Sundar, Kyle Jamieson, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Adam Zampa, Sachin Baby, Srikar Bharat, Pavan Deshpande, Rajat Patidar, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhudessai, Shahbaz Ahmed.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik(wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Ben Cutting, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Kuldeep Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sheldon Jackson, Sandeep Warrier, Tim Seifert, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Vaibhav Arora.

Team News:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: RCB has improved a lot in the middle overs this season due to the addition of Glenn Maxwell but the problem has not entirely gone away for the team. RCB will look forward to scoring more runs in the middle overs through the efforts of AB de Villiers and Glenn Maxwell.

Probable XI: 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.

Kolkata Knight Riders: KKR has been dependent on Andre Russell to bowl the death overs but ABD finds it easy to score off him. KKR could shuffle the bowlers to bowl the final few overs of the match. Andre Russell has been good with the bat against RCB. Russell could be moved up the order in this match.

Probable XI: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik(wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy.

Some Facts:

1. In 26 head-to-head matches, Kolkata Knight Riders has won 14 games while RCB has won 12 matches.

2. Eoin Morgan does not hold a great record against RCB as in 7 innings he has scored just 81 runs at a strike rate of  93.1 and an average of 13.5.

3. Sunil Narine has picked 16 wickets in 14 matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

4. Since IPL 2021, Virat Kohli has a strike rate of 104.14 in the middle overs of the game.