Royal Challengers Bangalore enter this game after four successive defeats in the season. While Kolkata have won two after being overly dependent on Andre Russell. Somewhere Kolkata have have created a team which is in form, while RCB haven’t been able to piece a winning squad.
RCB would be waiting to bounce back, while Kolkata enter the game as favourites.
Match 17, 5th April 2019 – 8 pm : Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Historical win percentage : KKR won 60 percent of the games against RCB
Last 5 Matches :
RCB — L L L L L
KKR— L W W L W
Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad :
Virat Kohli(C), Parthiv Patel, Devdutt Padikkal, AB de Villiers, Gurkeerat Singh, Akshdeep Nath, Shimron Hetmyer, Colin de Grandhomme, Shivam Dube, Himmat Singh, Milind Kumar, Marcus Stoinis, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Washington Sundar, Prayas Ray Barman, Heinrich Klaasen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Tim Southee, Nathan Coulter-Nile.
Possible Playing 11 : Parthiv Patel(WK), Moeen Ali, Virat Kohli(C), AB de Villiers, Marcus Stoinis, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Nath, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammed Siraj.
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad :
Dinesh Karthik(C), Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Carlos Brathwaite, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Prithvi Raj, Sandeep Warrier, Shrikant Mundhe, Harry Gurney, KC Cariappa, Joe Denly, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Nikhil Naik.
Possible Playing 11 : Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (C & WK), Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna and Lockie Ferguson.
Dream 11 :
Wicket Keeper : Parthiv Patel
Batsmen : AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli (vc), Robin Uthappa (vc), Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill
Allrounders : Moeen Ali, Andre Russell
Bowlers : Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Piyush Chawla