KKR vs RCB: Kolkata Knight Riders are taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore in their first home game of the Indian Premier League 2023. Meanwhile, KKR owner and prominent actor Shah Rukh Khan made his presence felt at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Meanwhile, RCB has won the toss and opted to have a bowl first in an important clash. Follow IPL 2023 LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
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KKR vs RCB: WATCH as Shah Rukh Khan marks his Presence at Iconic Eden Gardens as Kolkata Knight Riders face Royal Challengers Bangalore, Follow IPL 2023
Shahrukh Khan has attended the match at Eden Gardens. pic.twitter.com/1l5G6LUZzF
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Meanwhile, KKR have dropped Anukul Roy for Suyash Sharma for the only change in their Playing XI against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Eden Gardens return. However, Suyash is set to come on in as an Impact Player in place of Varun Chakaravarthy. Express pacer Lockie Ferguson is still injured and is not available for KKR. Nitish Rana & Co have also benched Narayan Jagadeesan for the RCB clash. Venkatesh Iyer is only in the substitutes.
“Guys are excited to be back here. Like most teams, it’s just not the captain, there’s a number of different leaders throughout teams that help as well. There’s number of guys that played a lot of T20 and IPL cricket, Nitish had an experience of captaining Delhi in domestic cricket here, so he is not an inexperienced captain,” Tim Southee said before the match.
“In IPL, it is his first time, but he has done a great job so far. There’s a couple of class players top of the order (for RCB) that played for a long time and when you play against guys for a long period of time they obviously know a bit about you and hopefully you know a little bit about them as well. They had a great start to the IPL and hopefully we can get off to a winning start here at the Eden Gardens,” he added.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Mandeep Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
