🏏IPL 2025 - Match 1: RCB vs KKR, 22 March 2025 @ 7:30 PM IST🏏- Page 4

thanks for the tag gonna wrap up my groceries and co. work asap so I can be ready for the opening ceremony

Team Prediction

Wicketkeepers: Phil Salt, Quinton De Kock

Batters: Virat Kohli, Ramandeep Singh, Ajinkya Rahane

All-rounders: Sunil Narine (C), Andre Russell (VC), Liam Livingstone

Bowlers: Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshit Rana

With KKR starting their campaign under a new captain and RCB hoping to finally lift the trophy, this match promises to be a thrilling contest. Fans will be eager to see how the new signings perform and whether RCB can start their season on a high or if KKR can continue their dominance at Eden Gardens

Toss - 7PM

The coin flip is scheduled to take place at 7PM and the match is supposed to start at 7:30 PM.

Opening ceremony at 6 PM

The weather will also play a part in determining whether the opening ceremony goes ahead on its scheduled time or not.

16:00 - No rain

The weather remains clear as of now. It was pouring in Kolkata at noon but the clouds have since dispersed. Fingers crossed!

Virat Kohli back to T20 cricket

KKR vs RCB Live Score: It will be interesting to see how Virat Kohli fares this season. There were all kinds of question marks on his credentials as a T20 player last season, with the tournament coming right before the 2024 T20 World Cup. He blew them out of the park by scoring over 700 runs with the kind of strike rate that he had scored at only once before in the IPL - that legendary 2016 season. He didn't have the greatest of tournaments in the T20 World Cup, technically speaking, but who in the world cares about that considering he played a match-winning knock in the final and won the trophy itself.

And then, he retired from T20Is. Which means this season, Kohli's only motivation to do well will be for RCB and RCB alone. In his long and prolific career, this might be the first time he has faced a situation like that.

Two new captains…

IPL 2025, KKR vs RCB Live Score: Ajinkya Rahane is a senior statesman of Indian cricket, Rajat Patidar not quite. But Patidar does command respect due to his performances, which surely is the reason why he became captain of a side that has the likes of Virat Kohli and Josh Hazlewood among other international superstars.

Originally posted by: Savera84

Janaa mat TJ. Now that you are here, I will remember to tag you in all my threads.

Cheers..

Chalo thik hai.

I guess we might get only opening ceremony today in rain.

Match looks to be fully affected by rain.

Eden for under the roof cricket ?

Originally posted by: Satrangi_Curls

IPL jaldi aaya hai na? well not watching for now but I'll be around Thanks for the tag.

Itne saare ICC tournaments aur series ke beech pata hi nahi chalta hai kab IPL waapas aa jaata hai

Dharm sankat

RCB plz win this one

Originally posted by: nushhkiee

Definitely an interesting move

fresh approach by putting the leadership in the hands of a player who may not have the star studded reputation of someone like... Virat Kohli (as much as I love him...but yeah)

Also Patidar is consistent ... It will be interesting to see how he handles it

Only time will tell... but it’s a gamble that might pay off if he handles the pressure well

On-field captain will be Virat.. Patidar will need his nods before making all the bowling changes and field positions.

Rutu did the same last year.. Dhoni is and will always be the on-field captain of CSK.

Ajinkya Rahane, Rajat Patidar and Rain getting ready for toss. Lets see who wins😎