With Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) sitting at the top of the IPL 2021 points table a couple of matches ago, it seemed as if they had got rid of their chronic problems.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are placed at the 6th spot in points table with 2 win and 5 losses from their 7 matches of the league. The team is with 4 points.
Nitish Rana is the top run-scorer for Kolkata Knight Riders with 201 runs at a strike rate of 122. He has struck 21 fours and 9 sixes. Rahul Tripathi has also made 187 runs at a strike rate of 135. Pat Cummins has been the best bowler for KKR and has picked up 9 wickets while bowling at an average of 26 and an economy rate of 8.83. Prasidh Krishna has 8 wickets with the best of 3/30.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are placed at the 3rd spot in the points table with 5 wins and 2 losses from their 7 matches of the league. The team is with 10 points.
Glenn Maxwell is the top run-scorer for RCB with 223 runs at a strike rate of 144. He has struck 21 fours and 10 sixes. AB de Villiers has also made 207 runs at a strike rate of 164. Harshal Patel has been the best bowler for RCB and has picked up 17 wickets while bowling at an average of 15 and an economy rate of 9.17. Kyle Jamieson has 9 wickets with the best of 3/41.
Wicketkeeper:AB De Villiers.
Batsmen:Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal.
All-rounders:Glenn Maxwell, Andre Russell.
Bowlers:Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Varun Chakravarthy, Kylie Jamieson
Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan ©, Sunil Narine, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Andre Russull, Pat Cummins, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), Daniel Sams, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
The match will begin at 19:30 PM IST and will take place on May 3.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Eoin Morgan (Captain), Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Pawan Negi, Tim Seifert, Shakib al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Finn Allen (wk), AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, K.S. Bharat