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IPL 2025: The 18th season of the Indian Premier League is starting today with the first match of KKR and RCB. Both teams will land on the field of Eden Gardens in Kolkata for this match.
IPL 2025 : The Indian Premier League fever for cricket lovers has once again turned on. The first match of the 18th season will be played between KKR and RCB in the Eden Gardens today. With this, the process of 74 matches between 10 teams will start from today. This match will start at 7.30 pm. Although the rain is looming on this match, but if the rain stops a little and the match of 5-5 overs, then there will be every possibility of the result, otherwise 1-1 point will be distributed between the two teams.
Captains are new to both teams
Let us tell you here that this year both the captains of both teams are new. While, on one side, Ajinkya Rahane will take command of KKR for 1.5 crores, on the other hand, silver Patidar will be seen taking command of RCB. However, before this KKR was commanded by Shreyas Iyer. At the same time, the command of RCB was in the hand of Virat Kohli. This season, many new players will be seen in both teams, but experienced players like Virat Kohli, Sunil Naren and Andre Russell will remain with the team. At the same time, let us know that KKR has to lose a star player like Phil Salat, who performed brilliantly in the last season. Now they are part of RCB.
What can be the weather condition
The first match of IPL is under threat of rain. Kolkata has been receiving very light rain for the last 24 hours. In such a situation, the Eden Garden ground has been completely covered. Especially on 22 March i.e. today, the weather of today is expected to be very bad. IMD has issued an orange alert for Kolkata and surrounding areas. The apprehension of rain and thunderstorms has eclipsed the opening match of the season. Because of this, the opening match and the brilliant opening ceremony to be held before that can also increase difficulties.
This is the squad of both teams
Kolkata Knight Riders
Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rinku Singh, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Aiyar, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Enark Northern, Harshit Rana, Sunil Naren, Varun Chakraborty, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Marakande, Rovman Pavel, Manish Pavel, Manish Pavel, Spacers Johnson Johnson, Sisodia, Adhikar Roy, Moin Ali and Umran Malik.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Yash Dayal, Liam Livingstone, Phil Salat, Jitesh Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Roomario Shepherd, Nuwan Tushara, Manoj Bhandag, Jacob Bethl, Chikara, Lungi Engidi, Abhinandan Singh and Mohit Rathi.
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