KKR and RCB take on each other in the IPL 2025 campaign opener in Kolkata on March 22. However, as per recent updates, the contest is likely to be interrupted by rain, possibly even washed out.
Kolkata is the venue for IPL 2025's first game of the season. The historic Eden Gardens is all set to host a mouth-watering contest between two rival teams Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
The two teams played two games last season. In the first game. KKR defeated RCB by seven wickets. The second game was a much-closer contest with KKR edging RCB by one run.
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Thunderstorms To Hit Kolkata On March 22
Meanwhile, as per recent reports in the Hindustan Times, the KKR vs RCB match is likely to be abandoned with the city under threat of heavy rainfall. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorms, lightning and rainfall in Kolkata until March 22, owing to an anticyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal. Thus the match might get washed out as well.
“A trough runs from central Odisha to Vidarbha, and there is wind confluence over east and adjoining central India due to the above trough and anticyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal at lower tropospheric levels. Isolated to scattered light or moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds likely over sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on March 20 and 21" the Meteorological Department said.
Meanwhile, the Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata issued an orange alert for some parts of West Bengal from March 20 to March 22. This comes as a bad news for the locals of the state as well.
“Thunderstorm activity over the districts of West Bengal from 20th to 22nd March 2025. Due to the presence of favourable wind patterns & strong moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal at lower tropospheric levels, Thunderstorms with lightning and strong gusty surface winds are very likely to occur in some districts of West Bengal during 20-22 March 2025,” the regional weather forecasting agency said.
KKR are the defending champions of the IPL having won the title last season under Shreyas Iyer's captaincy. However. KKR's think tank looks very different this year with Ajinkya Rahane as captain, Dwayne Bravo as head coach and Ottis Gibson as Assistant coach. Chandrakant Pandit was retained as the head coach ahead of the season.
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