The double-header matchday of IPL 2021 will be played on April 18 at Chepauk Stadium in Chennai between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders. The match will commence at 3:30 pm.
Both the teams have played 2 matches so far in this season of IPL. Royal Challengers Bangalore started their campaign with a boom and is the only team that has managed to stay unbeaten in the tournament. On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders won their first game of the season but were beaten in the second game against Mumbai Indians by 10 runs.
The two-time IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) started their season with a bang win against Sunrisers Hyderabad. But their last game against defending champions Mumbai Indian (MI) was disappointing as Eoin Morgan and boys chasing target 153 were restricted at 143/7 by Mumbai spinners. It was a very close battle but in end, Mumbai manages to beat Kolkata.
The opening pair of Nitish Rana and Shubman Gill for KKR started strongly and scored 72 runs partnerships. But after the fall of the first wicket, no batsmen managed to score a two-digit score which cost them a match. Nitish Rana for KKR is looking good this season and he had manages to score a back-to-back half-century in both played matches for KKR.
KKR Squad is looking good this season but the only factor they need to check is their middle-order squad which is failed to perform in both matches. We don’t find any valid reason to make changes in Playing XI for KKR. Hence, KKR can play with the same playing XI in match 10.
On that note let’s look at the Predicted Playing XI of KKR for match 10 against RCB:
Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (C), Shakib Al Hasan, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy