Royal Challengers Bangalore vs. Kolkatta Knight Riders: RCB to bounce back after a crushing defeat

Two teams had very different contrasting starts to the season go head to head in the second game week of the IPL. With Kolkata will be looking to build upon their sweet victory against CSK, Bangalore will be looking to register their first win of the campaign.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

RCB lost their first time despite their brilliant batting effort and scoring in excess of 200 runs. They need to still improve on their bowling to have a say in the title challenge. In this match, they will be again looking to put a good score on the board. This is the same venue that hosted the game between RCB and Punjab Kings and RCb will be keen to not make the same mistake twice.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Predicted Lineup

Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik(wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata demolished CSK on both fronts be it bowling or batting. They were able to restrict CSK to only 131 and scored the runs easily. They will be looking to continue the same in this match too. KKR however struggled in the last half of the CSK innings. They can try out new combinations and experiment with the depth of their squad in this game.

Kolkata Knight Riders Predicted Lineup:

Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer(c), Nitish Rana, Sam Billings, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Sheldon Jackson(wk), Umesh Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakaravarthy

Expert betting tips

Expect a lot of runs on this ground with both the teams in good form when it comes to batting. The toss will again play a crucial factor in this game also with four out of five games won by the team who won the toss in this IPL. Though KKR looks good on paper, we are expecting RCB to bounce back and gain crucial two points at the early stages of the IPL.

Prediction

• RCB to win for 1.77;
• Each team to score over 159.5 runs for 1.80;
• Over number 1 for under 5.5 for 2.00