KKR vs RCB Dream11 Team Prediction & Fantasy Cricket Tips: IPL 2025 Match 1

IPL 2025 will kick off with KKR taking on RCB at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on March 22. The match starts from 7.40 PM IST. Both teams have two new captains with Ajinkya Rahane set to lead KKR. RCB,on the other hand, will be led by Rajat Patidar.

Both teams have faced each other 34 times and KKR holds the upper hand as they won 20 matches out of the 34. Since IPL 2021, KKR have won six out of the seven matches against KKR. In the last five meetings Kolkata have won four while Bangalore just one. Things are a bit closer in games at the Eden Gardens where both teams have won two matches each in their last four encounters.

The weather forecast is the biggest concern ahead of the IPL 2025 campaign opener. Rain might play spoilsport in the first match with heavy rainfall expected in Kolkata throughout Saturday. The intensity of the rainfall might rise between 6 PM to 11 PM as per the India Meteorological Department who have put the city on Orange Alert for the weekend.

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KKR vs RCB IPL 2025 Match 1: Pitch Report

The pitch for the IPL 2025 season opener is expected to be a batting-friendly wicket. If there is no rainfall, the pitch will remain flat and even throughout the 40 overs. However, rain might affect how the teams might look at the contest then. Both teams might prefer chasing with the DLS coming into play. Temperatures might fall at night due to the rainfall which might increase the impact of dew on the outfield. Since the IPL returned to the home-away format in 2023, runs have been scored at 10 per over almost at the venue in the last two seasons.

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KKR- Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (wk), Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

RCB- Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma

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