Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders T20 Prediction

Betting Tips

• Both of RCB’s wins have been built on tight bowling from the unit and individual brilliance. In the first game it was Harshal Patel who delivered a fantastic final over of the Mumbai Indians’ innings in which only 1 run was scored and 4 wickets fell. Against Sunrisers Hyderabad, they looked all set for their first defeat of the campaign before Shahbaz Ahmed took the wickets of Jonny Bairstow, Manish Pandey and Abdul Samad during the 17th over and take them from 115-2 to 116-5. With the bat, the surfaces haven’t been conducive for big scores but Glenn Maxwell has already hit 98 runs, 10 runs shy of his entire total from the 2020 season.
• KKR have also produced brilliance with the ball, Andre Russell following up Harshal Patel’s 5-27 against Mumbai Indians with his own 5-15 from 2 overs. However, Russell’s five wickets didn’t produce a victory. The win against Sunrisers Hyderabad saw Prasidh Krishna take the leading role with 2-35. With the bat, 137 of KKR’s 329 runs so far in the tournament have been scored by Nitish Rana. Rahul Tripathi’s 29-ball 53 is the only other individual score above 50 for Eoin Morgan’s team.
• RCB will now have Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson available after completing their quarantine periods. KKR are yet to use the pace of Lockie Ferguson but are perhaps saving him for more conducive pitches later on in the tournament.

RCB (Batting XI, Fielding XI) : Virat Kohli (c) , Devdutt Padikkal, Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), Washington Sundar, Daniel Christian, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal

KKR (Batting XI, Fielding XI): Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Andre Russell, Eoin Morgan (c) , Dinesh Karthik, Shakib Al Hasan, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy