Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Head To Head | IPL 2025

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Head To Head

After over ten months, IPL 2025 is finally here. The tournament will kick off with one of the key battles: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru. These two top teams will face each other in the tournament opener on March 22 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. This article will discuss their head-to-head records in the IPL so far.

IPL 2025 will start on 22nd March with the match between these two teams and will span over 2 months, featuring 74 exciting matches among 10 teams. It will end on 25th March with the finals at the same venue in Kolkata.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Head-To-Head in IPL

The battle between these two teams dates back to the opening match of the Indian Premier League in 2008, where we saw an iconic inning of 158 runs by Brendon Mccullums. In the 34 matches played against each other in 17 seasons, Kolkata Knight Riders have maintained domination over Royal Challengers Bengaluru, winning 20 matches. While RCB could win only 14 matches. 

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Last Match

The last match between both teams in the IPL was played on 21st April 2024 in the seventeenth edition of the tournament (IPL 2024). In a high-scoring match that was a nail-biting thriller, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by just one run. KKR while batting first, KKR scored 222 runs, featuring Shreyas Iyer’s 50 off 36 balls and short and explosive knocks from Phil Salt and Ramandeep Singh. Phil scored 48 off just 14 balls, hitting seven boundaries and three sixes, while Ramandeep scored 24 in just nine balls.

RCB, while chasing the target, started aggressively but lost both openers, Virat Kohli and Faf, in just three overs, scoring 35. litre, with half-centuries from Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar, who scored 55 and 52, respectively, with a strike rate of over 220 and 170. With multiple small knocks, the match reached the last over, where RCB needed 21 runs in just six balls. But RCB could score only 19 runs, losing the match by just one run.

Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2024

KKR performed their best in the IPL 2024 season, winning their third title. Earlier in the group stage, KKR won nine out of the 14 matches played, ending the group stage in the first position and qualifying for the first qualifiers under Shreyas Iyer's captaincy. The team saw exciting performances from players like Varun Chakravarthy, who took 21 wickets in the season and was the second-highest wicket-taker of IPL 2024. 

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Kolkata Knight Riders Squad For IPL 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL 2024

Royal Challengers Bengaluru, after having one of the most devastating first halves in the history of IPL, lost 6 out of the first seven matches. At this point, it looked like RCB would be the first team to be out of the playoffs race, and that's when RCB made a kind of comeback that had never been seen before. RCB needed six wins out of the last six matches to get a chance to qualify for the playoffs, but even then, they would not have an assurance of getting qualified. The team showed exceptional performance, winning six matches in a row, and qualified for the playoffs, though it lost to Rajasthan Royals in the Eliminator. But this comeback by RCB will be remembered for decades and act as a motivation for the teams who will be having a bad start to the season.

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad For IPL 2025

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