Kolkata Knight Riders are set to lock horns with Royal Challengers Bangalore in Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata. Royal Challengers Bangalore are already out of the race with seven loss among eight of their matches. Kolkata Knight Riders on the other side, have won four out of the eight matches, which is why they are still having hope. Andre Russell is the only consistent player for KKR, but the team is falling like cards.
Chris Lynn scored a half-century in the previous match with 82 runs off just 51 balls, but it was of no use. Royal Challengers Bangalore will include Dale Steyn in the squad who is currently replaced with Nathan Coulter-Nile. The team will now be an X Factor as they will now change the numbers of other teams. Virat Kohli has been the one-man army for the team, following the exceptional form of Yuzvendra Chahal.
The big fishes for Royal Challengers Bangalore, AB De Villiers and Shemron Hetmyer were kept silent in the whole tournament, except one Man of the match innings by ABD. Kolkata Knight Riders on the other side are riding on the shoulders of Andre Russell only. KKR despite one-man army Andre Russell, has got support from the bowling department. Kolkata can reach the playoffs; they just need to work on their batting department. Kolkata Knights Riders, in the starting matches, were dominating the side, but recently suffering defeats consecutively.
Probable XI:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Karthik (c & wk), Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Sunil Narine, Harry Gurney, Andre Russell/Carlos Brathwaite, Chris Lynn, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Shubman Gill
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel (wk), AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli (c), Akshdeep Nath, Marcus Stoinis, Moeen Ali, Yuzvendra Chahal, Pawan Negi, Dale Steyn, Navdeep Saini, Umesh Yadav
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Andre Russell, Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Harry Gurney, Rinku Singh, Nikhil Naik, Joe Denly, Shrikant Mundhe, Carlos Brathwaite, Sandeep Warrier, Lockie Ferguson, Yarra Prithviraj, KC Cariappa, Matthew Kelly
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel(w), Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Moeen Ali, Marcus Stoinis, Akshdeep Nath, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Heinrich Klaasen, Himmat Singh, Colin de Grandhomme, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Milind Kumar, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Prayas Barman, Kulwant Khejroliya, Tim Southee, Dale Steyn