Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will be facing Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the ninth match of the IPL 2023 at Eden Gardens on April 6. Kolkata Knight Riders lost against Punjab Kings by seven runs on the DLS method in their opening game. Punjab Kings posted a big total of 191/5, with Tim Southee taking two wickets for the Knight Riders. Then in a rain-interrupted game, Kolkata managed to score just 146/7 in 16 overs with an impact player Venkatesh Iyer scoring 34 off 28 and Andre Russell smashing 35 off 19.
MATCH INFORMATION
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Match 9
Indian Premier League, 6 Apr 2023, Thur, 7:30 PM IST, Kolkata
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
Kolkata Knight Riders
RK Singh, N Rana(C), VR Iyer, AS Roy, AD Russell, SP Narine, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(wk), Shardul Thakur, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy, UT Yadav
BENCH- Narayan Jagadeesan, S Iyer, Mandeep Singh, Liton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, D Wiese, Vaibhav Arora, LH Ferguson, H Rana, K Khejroliya, Suyash Sharma, JJ Roy
Royal Challengers Bangalore
F du Plessis(C), Virat Kohli, Michael Bracewell, GJ Maxwell, DJ Willey, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik(wk), Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, HV Patel, KV Sharma
BENCH : RM Patidar, SS Prabhudessai, Finn Allen, Avinash Singh, Rajan Kumar, WG Jacks, M Bhandage, MK Lomror, W Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, R Sonu Yadav, Josh Hazlewood, S Kaul, RJW Topley, Himanshu Sharma