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IPL 2025 1st match, KKR vs RCB: So kind, kadradan … tie the box of the chair. The 18th season of the world’s largest T20 Cricket League Indian Premier League (IPL) is starting today (March 22). The first match is to be held between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Keep in mind that the Kolkata Knight Riders team is the champion of the last season (IPL 2024).

By the way, keep in mind that the first match of IPL Its was also played between RCB and KKR in the year 2008. In that match on April 18 that year, RCB team flew into the storm of Brandon McCullum of KKR.

McCullum played a brilliant innings of 158* (73 balls) runs. KKR then scored a mountain -like score of 222/3 runs in 20 overs in that match at the Chainnaswamy Stadium, at that time such a big score was not made in T20 cricket. The RCB team went to just 82 runs in that match.

This is the 18th season of IPL, but mutual feud between RCB and KKR is the oldest. Many exciting matches have been played between the two teams. Where the KKR team looks a little ahead. There have been a total of 35 matches between the two franchises. KKR has won 21 times. At the same time, RCB has won 14 times. At the same time, both teams are on par by winning 5-5 matches in the last 10 matches.

At the same time, there have been 34 matches between the two in the IPL, where 20 times KKR has waved the Vizi flag 14 times. A match was held in the Champions League.

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– kolkataknightriders (@kkriders) March 20, 2025

Both teams have new captains
The special thing is that this time the teams of RCB and KKR are entering the field with new captains. The command of KKR has been given to Anjikya Rahane. At the same time, the command of RCB will be in the hands of Rajat Patidar.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Squad-
Riten- Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (captain) and Yash Dayal.

Purchased- Liam Livingstone, Phil Soult, Jitesh Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Tushara, Manoj Bhandare, Jackb Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastikkkal, Swastik Chick, Lungi Nagidi, Rathi

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Squad –
Riten- Sunil Naren, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana and Ramandeep Singh

Purchased- Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton Dickock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Enrik Nokia, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Lavneet Sisodia, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), favorable Roy, Moin Ali, Chetan Sakaria (Replacement).

Orenage alert warning

However, just a day before the opening ceremony of IPL, a shocking news came out from Kolkata. In fact, the first match of the IPL season could be completely canceled, as the Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted thunderstorms and rain in South Bengal from Thursday to Sunday. Orange alert has been issued for 22 March on the first day of IPL 2025, while Yellow Alert has been issued for Sunday.

According to Aqueder, Kolkata has 74% chances of rain on Saturday, while the possibility of cloudy is 97%. The possibility of rain in the evening will be up to 90%. Therefore, it is almost certain that on the first day of the 18th edition of the IPL, there will be a lot of rain in the Eden Gardens. It is also difficult to say whether KKR and RCB will be able to play enough overs to bring results.