After four consecutive losses in a row, Royal Challengers Bangalore will lock horns with Kolkata Knight Riders to open the winning account at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, on April 05, 2019 Friday. Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore led by skipper Virat Kohli have been tasting defeats since the opening match against Chennai Super Kings. From opening match to the match against Rajasthan Royals, where RCB had a chance of openinig a winning account, but Shreyas Gopal was in a form and stole the hope of winning from Bengalurus.
Meanwhie, Kolkata Knight Riders though lost the previous match against Delhi Capital by a Super over, but they did a tremendous comeback in an order to get defeated in a match only. Andre the Giant Russell will be an impactful player and can give a lot of dent to the RCB. Andre Russell doing good with the ball, but is in a devastating form with the bat. Meanwhile, Nitish Rana could also become a threat for the Bengalurus as he also knows, how to shift the gears as per the needs. Kolkata Knight Riders have won two out of one matches, and would like to make it same.
On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore have lost 4 out of 4 matches and is taking the position of down the chart. RCB can go for a bunch of changes against Kolkata Knight Riders as Nathan-Coulter Nile will only be available after April 13. Meanwhile Kohli will look ahead to make few changes following the loss against Rajasthan Royals. Likewise, Kolkata Knight Riders might go for a single change in a positive manner as Sunial Narine is good to go and might replace Niikhil Naik to come in for playing XI.
Probable XI:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik (wk, c), Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel (wk), Washington Sundar/Moeen Ali, Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer/Tim Southee, Marcus Stoinis, Akshdeep Nath, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Nikhil Naik, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Joe Denly, Shrikant Mundhe, Carlos Brathwaite, Sunil Narine, Sandeep Warrier, Harry Gurney, Yarra Prithviraj, KC Cariappa
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli(c), Parthiv Patel, AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Moeen Ali, Akshdeep Nath(w), Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Devdutt Padikkal, Heinrich Klaasen, Himmat Singh, Colin de Grandhomme, Pawan Negi, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Milind Kumar, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Prayas Barman, Kulwant Khejroliya, Tim Southee, Nathan Coulter-Nile
