BLR vs KOL Live Score, 10th Match, IPL 2021 Live Score, BLR vs KOL Live Score Updates, BLR vs KOL Playing XI’s

Date:              18th April, 2021

Time:              03:30 PM IST.

Venue:            MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Match Preview

It has been a while since their defeat against Mumbai Indians in their second game of Indian Premier League 2021, but the Kolkata Knight Riders fans are still scratching their heads, failing to comprehend how a team can lose from the position they were in. The Knights needed only 31 runs from 5 overs, with 6 wickets in hand.

But not only did they lose the game, despite having the likes of Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik, they also lost by a margin of 10 runs, which shows how poor their death batting was. The level of performance will need to go up by a few notches if they want to trouble Royal Challengers Bangalore in their next match. Virat Kohli’s team have won their first two games and confidence will be high in that camp.

BLR vs KOL Squads

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), Daniel Christian, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj and Yuzvendra Chahal

Kolkata Knight Riders

Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Shakib Al Hasan, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy, Harbhajan Singh and Prasidh Krishna

Weather Report & Pitch Condition

The MA Chidambaram Stadium surface is not one where scoring has been easy, and as the likes of Andre Russell and Rohit Sharma have mentioned, settling down on the crease will be crucial here. From the matches played so far, chasing has seemed tougher than batting first.

BLR vs KOL Top Picks

• Virat Kohli has got off to good starts in both the matches he has played so far. He scored 33 runs from 29 deliveries in each game and can be lethal if he converts his starts into a big score.
• Nitish Rana is the man of the hour from the KKR team. Batting as an opener, he has played two sublime knocks for the Knights. While he scored 80 in the first game, he played a calculated, yet impressive knock of 57 off 47 deliveries in the last game.
• Glenn Maxwell has brushed aside the failures of 2020 and is looking in great touch this time around. He scored a half-century in the last game, which proved to be a match-winning knock.
• Andre Russell is that sort of a player who, if he fails to perform in one department, will make amends with his brilliant display in another department. He might have failed to win the game with the bat for KKR in the last match, but he became only the second bowler ever to pick a fifer against Mumbai.
• Pat Cummins is continuously justifying why he is so highly-rated in world cricket. He picked up 2 crucial wickets by conceding only 24 runs in the last game.
• Harshal Patel started off his campaign with a 5-wicket haul, and in his last match, he picked up 2 wickets by conceding only 25 runs.
• AB de Villiers had a rare failure in his last game, but it was his innings that won RCB the first match of the season. He scored 48 runs from only 27 deliveries in that game.

Suggested Playing XI for BLR vs KOL Dream11 Fantasy Cricket

Fantasy Suggestion #1: Dinesh Karthik, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Eoin Morgan, Devdutt Padikkal, Andre Russell, Glenn Maxwell, Harshal Patel, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy and Yuzvendra Chahal

Captain: Virat Kohli, Vice-Captain: Shubman Gill

Fantasy Suggestion #2: AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Eoin Morgan, Shahbaz Ahmed, Andre Russell, Glenn Maxwell, Harshal Patel, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy and Yuzvendra Chahal

Captain: Eoin Morgan, Vice-Captain: Virat Kohli