PREVIEW: M35 - Kolkata Knight Riders VS Royal Challengers Bangalore

PREVIEW: M35 - Kolkata Knight Riders VS Royal Challengers Bangalore

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Royal Challengers Bangalore will fight another battle to keep their slim playoffs alive when they will face Kolkata Knight Riders in the VIVO IPL 2019 match 35. RCB is on the floor of the eight-team table with the solitary win of eight matches. Their rival Knight Riders are part of the mid-table medal with four wins from eight matches.

Knight Riders has just moved from table-toppers to number six on just ten days. KKR made a whirlwind start of four victories in his first five matches, but now he suffered three consecutive defeats, including his last two matches at home. Knight Riders have issues of addressing both their batting and bowling. In his last three matches, he has taken only 11 wickets, while he himself has lost 24 wickets. As an opening pair, Chris Lin and Sunil Narine can hit or miss, and therefore the middle order of KKR should be set fire to every single match. Andre Russell is consistent with the bat and is the highest run scorer in the team, but KKR needs more in the middle - Robi Uthappa, Nitish Rana, and Dinesh Karthik.

The surface of their home ground is usually a generous cover of grass, which has provided quality spinners in the KKR line-up ineffective; Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, and Piyush Chawla together took 14 wickets in almost 78 overs. KKR needs a wicket-taker in their XI but they are also limited by the options in the team.

The playoff aspirations of RCB are hanging on a thread; At present, they have only a mathematical opportunity to move forward from the league season, and if they suffer another loss they will disappear. Like his opponent, RCB's main problem is with his bowling too; They do not take enough wickets, and they do not run.

RCB has fielded three foreign players only in their last two matches. He is encouraged by the arrival of Dale Steyn, and no one can expect that he will soon replace the fourth foreign player.

When

April 19, 2019, 8 PM IST

where

Eden Garden, Kolkata

Previous match XIs:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Robbie Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Shubhaman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Harry Burn, Prasad Krishna

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Moin Ali, Marcus Stonyis, Akshdeep Nath, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Siraj, Yuswendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini.

Main character

After the bad start of the season Chris Lin hit; After managing just 37 runs under a run-of-ball in his first three matches, KKR's opener scored 175 runs in his last four innings. KKR would like to maintain its place in the list of Australian runners. Robbie Uthappa, who batted at number three or four, has a game of deep batting. Despite the start of this season almost every time, he has made only one half-century; KKR also expects more than 33 years of age. And then, of course, there is Andre Russell. Jamaica is the highest run-scorer in this season of KKR; The 312 runs he has scored are at the strike-rate of 213.70!

For RCB, batting still revolves around Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, though Parthiv Patel has given the team a steady start.

There is a problem of bowling to address both teams; RCB can do with Dale Steyn's experience and the class, while KKR might have been thinking that if Matt Kelly, the fast bowler of Western Australia signed the place of injured Andrey Norge, then he should make a comeback in the IPL.

Head of Indian Premier League

Overall: Match 23, Kolkata Knight Riders - 14, Royal Challengers Bangalore-9.

Since 2017: Match 5, Kolkata Knight Riders - 5, Royal Challengers Bangalore - 0.

Common Sense

Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore have taken the lowest wickets in VIVO IPL 2019. KKR has taken 30 wickets in eight matches, while RCB has taken 36 wickets in 8 matches.

Kolkata Knight Riders have a record of 1-4 win-losses when they batted earlier this season; They are 3-0 ahead in the run-chase.