Kolkata

Mandeep Singh

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (W)

Nitish Rana (C)

Rinku Singh

Andre Russell

Venkatesh Iyer

Sunil Narine

Shardul Thakur

Tim Southee

Umesh Yadav

Varun Chakaravarthy

Bangalore

Faf du Plessis (C)

Virat Kohli

Glenn Maxwell

Michael Bracewell

Dinesh Karthik (W)

Shahbaz Ahmed

David Willey

Harshal Patel

Akash Deep

Mohammed Siraj

Karn Sharma

Abhinandan Singh

Bhuvneshwar Kumar Singh

Devdutt Babunu Padikkal

Jacob Graham Bethell

Jacob Andrew Duffy

Jitesh Mohan Sharma

Jordan Matthew Cox

Josh Reginald Hazlewood

Kanishk Chouhan

Krunal Himanshu Pandya

Mangesh Yadav

Ilandari Dewage Nuwan Thushara

Philip Dean Salt

Rajat Manohar Patidar

Rasikh Salam Dar

Romario Shepherd

Satvik Deswal

Suyash Sharma

Swapnil K Singh

Timothy Hays David

Venkatesh Rajasekaran Iyer

Vicky Kanhaiya Ostwal

Vihaan Manoj Malhotra

Yash Dayal

Ajinkya Madhukar Rahane

Angkrish Avaneesh Raghuvanshi

Anukul Sudhakar Roy

Cameron Donald Green

Daksh Kamra

Finnley Hugh Allen

Harshit Pradeep Rana

Kartik Tyagi

Manish Krishnanand Pandey

Matheesha Pathirana

Prashant Hitesh Solanki

Rachin Ravindra

Rahul Ajay Tripathi

Ramandeep Singh

Rinku Khanchand Singh

Rovman Powell

Sarthak Ranjan

Sunil Philip Narine

Tejasvi Singh

Tim Louis Seifert

Umran Malik

Vaibhav Gopal Arora

Varun Chakaravarthy Vinod

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Indian Premier League 2023

It was a brilliant batting performance by the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the opening stages of their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday, April 7.

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) all-rounder Shardul Thakur was pleased and also surprised with his batting performance against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), after scoring the joint-fastest 50 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 — match Jos Buttler's 20-ball 50 in the Rajasthan Royals (RR) first game of the season against the Sunrisers Hyderabad.

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Not one or two but three mystery spinners of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) created a ruckus at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday, April 6.

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The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) were brilliant during their emphatic 81-run victory over the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on their return to Eden Gardens for the first time since 2019.

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The Royal Challengers Bangalore's (RCB) head coach Sanjay Bangar confirmed that their star English pacer Reece Topley has been ruled out of the tournament after the injury that he sustained in their first match of the tournament against the Mumbai Indians (MI) in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season.

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West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell is pleased to return to the Eden Gardens for the Kolkata Knight Riders' (KKR) home games when the two-time champions will face off against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in their first home game in three years on Thursday, April 6.

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The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have started the season in the best manner possible, with an emphatic eight-wicket win over the Mumbai Indians (MI) in their first match of the campaign.

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Two of the main players of two-time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will be missing from the ongoing season, piling pressure on the team ahead of their second match of the season against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Thursday, April 5.

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Two-time Indian Premier League (IPL) winning team the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has decided to bring on England’s Jason Roy as the foreign replacement for Shakib Al Hasan, who is one of two KKR players missing the ongoing season of the cash-rich league, the tournament's website announced on Wednesday, April 5.

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After smashing 143 in PSL, Kolkata Knights Riders bring in former Sunrisers Hyderabad and ODI WC-winning star batter

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Rajat Patidar has been ruled out of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 due to an Achilles Heel injury.

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Big blow to RCB, star batter with 144.29 strike rate ruled out of IPL due to Achilles heel injury

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Kolkata vs Bangalore Stats

KKR vs RCB Match 9 Stats - Kolkata (06 April 2023)

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Series Stats

Most Runs

Best Strike Rate

Most 4s

Most 6s

Most Wickets

Shubman Gill

GT

890 Runs 17 Matches•17 Inns

Faf du Plessis

RCB

730 Runs 14 Matches•14 Inns

Devon Conway

CSK

672 Runs 16 Matches•15 Inns

Virat Kohli

RCB

639 Runs 14 Matches•14 Inns

Yashasvi Jaiswal

RR

625 Runs 14 Matches•14 Inns

Suryakumar Yadav

MI

605 Runs 16 Matches•16 Inns

Ruturaj Gaikwad

CSK

590 Runs 16 Matches•15 Inns

David Warner

DC

516 Runs 14 Matches•14 Inns

Rinku Singh

KKR

474 Runs 14 Matches•14 Inns

Ishan Kishan

MI

454 Runs 16 Matches•15 Inns

Cameron Green

MI

452 Runs 16 Matches•16 Inns

Heinrich Klaasen

SRH

448 Runs 12 Matches•11 Inns

Shivam Dube

CSK

418 Runs 16 Matches•14 Inns

Nitish Rana

KKR

413 Runs 14 Matches•14 Inns

Marcus Stoinis

LSG

408 Runs 15 Matches•15 Inns

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454 Runs

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448 Runs

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