IPL 2023, KKR vs RCB Playing 11: The 9th match of IPL 2023 will be played between KKR and RCB at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. In this match, the team of Kolkata Knight Riders can field a dangerous player. At the same time, a difficult problem has arisen in front of Royal Challengers Bangalore who are struggling with injury. It will be interesting to see with which playing 11 Nitish Rana and Faf du Plessis go into this match. KKR came after losing their first match against Punjab Kings while RCB started with a win against Mumbai Indians.

KKR’s team looks stronger with the arrival of Jason Roy, although he/she will not be available in this match. At the same time, after the injury of RCB Reece Topley, a team with a weak pace battery is looking. Josh Hazlewood is not already a part of this team. In such a situation, today’s competition can be tough. Both teams can go into this match with one change each. KKR will have special hopes on Andre Russell and Sunil Narine. So RCB fans would like to see another blast from the pair of Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis. RCB’s weak link could prove to be its bowling. Vanindu Hasaranga is not available. In such a situation, the team can depend on Michael Bracewell and Shahbaz Ahmed. David Willey may get his/her chance today.

KKR and RCB players in conversation

Will return to Eden Gardens after four years

Let us tell you that the IPL match is going to be held in Eden Gardens after four years. KKR played their last match here on April 28, 2019, defeating Mumbai Indians by 34 runs. Apart from this, talking about the head-to-head record between KKR and RCB, a total of 31 matches have taken place between the two teams, out of which Kolkata has won 17 times, while Bangalore has also won 14 times. KKR’s batting can be strengthened by the opening pair of Gurbaj and Venkatesh Iyer. Also, N Jagadishan will have to show his/her domestic cricket form here as well. Apart from this, the team will have hopes in bowling from Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakraborty and Sunil Narine.

Playing 11 can be like this

Kolkata Knight Riders:-

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee/Lockie Ferguson, Anukul Roy, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.

Royal Challengers Bangalore:-

Virat Kohli, Faf Duplessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Michael Bracewell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Karn Sharma, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, David Willey, Mohammad Siraj.

Joking around with Virat Kohli, Umesh Yadav and Shardul Thakur

Squads of both the teams

KKR: Nitish Rana (c), Jason Roy, N Jagadishan, Rinku Singh, Mandeep Singh, Litton Das, Rahmanullah Gurbaj, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, David Visa, Anukul Roy, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee , Vaibhav Arora, Kulwant Khejroliya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakraborty.

RCB: Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyyash Prabhudesai, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, David Willey, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandge, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Michael Bracewell.

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