RCB vs KKR IPL 2024 Highlights: Kolkata thrash Bengaluru by 7 wickets

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: This is a fixture that has provided quite a few memorable moments over the years. There was the McCullum Bazplosion in the first ever IPL match, then the first Gambhir-Kohli scuffle for the streets to remember in 2013. In 2016, Yusuf Pathan and Andre Russell helped KKR pull off the mother of all comebacks and Gambhir smashed a chair with his feet out of happy excitement when his side won it. an act for which he was slapped with a fine. In 2017, KKR were all out for 131 at home and then proceeded to blow RCB away for a record low score of 49. Then in 2019, Andre Russell blasted an unbeaten 48 off 13 balls to lead KKR to victory against RCB chasing a target of 204. It was a game in which Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers put up a partnership of 108 runs off just 56 balls.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kohli has been dismissed four times by Narine and has managed to score just 141 runs in 145 balls, which is a fantastic strike rate in a single Test innings but terrible for T20s. Kohli hasn't really been able to put away Varun Chakravarthy either. The former RCB captain has scored just 31 off 33 balls against him while getting out once in six innings.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Mitchell Starc's previous outing in the IPL was for RCB and now, he returns to Bengaluru. Starc played 10 matches at the Chinnaswamy in the IPL. He had an economy rate of 7.66, which is impressive considering other pacers went at 9.47.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Over the past two years, Rinku Singh has come to be known as one of the most dependable finishers in Indian cricket, ranking above the likes of Rahul Tewatia and Dinesh Karthik. This reputation of his was arguably first cemented during the last match between KKR and the Gujarat Titans. Yash Dayal bowled the last over for GT with KKR needing 29 to win. Rinku came on strike off the second ball and then proceeded to hit sixes off every ball he faced in an utterly extraordinary exhibition of clutch big-hitting. Dayal endured the nightmare of conceding 31 runs in the last over of a match. Today he will be up against Rinku again, this time wearing an RCB shirt. While Kohli vs Gambhir is the showstopper, this one is arguably more relevant since it will be actually fought out on the ground.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Mr 500 Sunil Narine has been a thorn on the side of KKR's superstar batters - Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell. Du Plessis has scored 54 in 70 balls (two dismissals) against him, Kohli 141 in 145 balls (four dismissals) and Maxwell 94 off 86 (four dismissals).

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir shared the dressing room in the Indian team for a number of years, famously winning the 2011 World Cup together. The senior Gambhir even gave up a player of the match award after an ODI game to a young Kohli as an appreciation of his innings. The first public flare up between these two probably happened for the first time during a game between RCB and KKR in 2013, with the newly appointed RCB captain Kohli going face to face with Gambhir after he was dismissed. They were separated by another Delhi player Rajat Bhatia. Then came the almighty clash last year with Gambhir as part of the LSG backroom staff. This one had started with Kohli's verbal jousts with LSG's Naveen-ul-Haq. Now Kohli and Naveen hugged and made up quite publicly during the 2023 World Cup. Will we see the same from the two fiery Delhi lads? As old and senior they may be in the game, they have shown in the few pictures seen this season that they continue to wear their hearts on their sleeves.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: This place was absolutely rocking earlier this week when RCB beat Punjab Kings four wickets, especially when their spiritual leader Virat Kohli was going big guns. As stated earlier, this is a fixture that goes all the way back to the origins of the IPL and moreover, there is the stuff between Kohli and Gambhir as well. Expect the atmosphere to be lively, to put it mildly.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: But not by much. KKR lead the head to head 18-14. KKR did the double on RCB last season, scoring more than 200 in both games. RCB have not beaten KKR at home at the Chinnaswamy since 2015.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: In a way, RCB vs KKR is the oldest fixture in this league. It was, after all, the first one to be played in the inaugural 2008 season. Brendon McCullum has captured people's imagination with the way he has got the England Test team playing, for better or for worse, since he became head coach. But well, you could say that you could see the tendency that 'Bazball' has to capture people's attention by the scruff of its shirt collars in the RCB vs KKR game in Bengaluru on April 18, 2008. KKR batted first in the first-ever IPL game and the opening pair of captain Sourav Ganguly and McCullum put up an opening stand of 61 runs in 5.2 overs. However, Ganguly had scored just 10 runs in 12 balls in that stand. Next it was Ricky Ponting's turn to watch the Baz show from the non-striker's end, and then David Hussey, and then Mohammad Hafeez for a short while. Brendon McCullum scored an unbeaten 158 in 73 balls on his own that day, the next best score was Ponting 20 in 20. KKR scored 222/3 and RCB in reply were all out for 82. It was a one-sided game but McCullum's innings was nothing short of spectacular and there are few better ways than that to introduce an entirely new tournament, in all senses really, to the masses.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Chetan Sakariya, Sherfane Rutherford, Sakib Hussain, Anukul Roy, Srikar Bharat, Dushmantha Chameera, Allah Ghazanfar

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat(w), Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mahipal Lomror, Suyash Prabhudessai, Karn Sharma, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Swapnil Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Will Jacks, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Saurav Chauhan, Rajan Kumar, Himanshu Sharma, Tom Curran, Reece Topley

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals: Sunil Narine, a KKR veteran, is set for a big day in his cricketing career. He will become only the fourth cricketer ever after Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Shoaib Malik to play 500 T20 matches. Five-frikking-hundred. With 536 wickets, Narine is already the third-highest in the list, but when it comes to the IPL, his legend is unparalleled. 165 matches. 164 wickets. Four half-centuries. And a two-time winner. You won't come across many stellar IPL careers such as Narine's. Into his 13th year with KKR, Narine has more seasons behind him than ahead, but he's still the wily old fox, capable of leaving batters bamboozled.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals: Jeez! The hype around this is incredible. What a capture this is. The picture can easily qualify as a cover image for one of those 1990s Hollywood films with a Mafia plot. One's face all blurry, while the other is spotted with a sheepish look on the face. The drama. The anticipation. Tonight's going to be maddening. Having said that, there's only one favourite. With the Chinnaswamy crowd behind him, the roar for Kohli will be immense. The Gambhir vs Kohli rivalry is surely is the biggest Indian cricket has ever seen. But is it bigger than Waqar vs Akram, or even Chappell vs Botham? Have your say.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals: Let all the attention surrounding the potential Gambhir-Kohli face-off take any focus off the other two individuals that matter a lot. The captains - Faf du Plessis and Shreyas Iyer. One a veteran in the final stage of his career, and the other trying to forge his way back into the Indian team. At this stage of his career, Du Plessis doesn’t have much to prove, except win RCB an elusive trophy, while on the contrary, Iyer has so much to. His BCCI contract was recently terminated, dimming his chances of playing the T20 World Cup. But this is the IPL. You never know. A cracking season, let alone a title-winning one, and Iyer's fortunes can change drastically.

Ah, we dare you to make a choice! Go ahead, pick a side.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: It's finally here. The contest that you'd all been waiting for. For the first time in so long, the focus on tonight's game will be on an individual battle that promises to dwarf the game itself. The word on the streets is that Kohli vs Gambhir is greater than RCB vs KKR. And it could well be true. This is the IPL after all, a tournament where there is no lack of excitement, action and masala. And tonight's fixture, which pits two individuals who have had a topsy-turvy history is just the flavour this IPL needed.