In the 36th match of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders will face Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Kolkata's Eden Gardens at 3:30 PM IST. Kolkata Knight Riders stand second in the points table with four wins in six matches. Meanwhile, Royal Challengers Bengaluru are at the bottom, with only one win from seven games.

In their recent games, Kolkata lost to Rajasthan Royals despite Sunil Narine's 109 runs and 2 wickets. On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bengaluru lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad by 25 runs, with Faf du Plessis scoring 62 and Dinesh Karthik hitting 83.

In head-to-head encounters, Kolkata has won 20 out of 34 matches against Royal Challengers Bengaluru's 14 wins.

Siraj to Narine, gets a single. Salt is out, caught at deep square after scoring 48 off 14 balls. Raghuvanshi comes in, gets a leg-by single. Narine hits a four over mid-off and adds a single. A leg-by ends the over.

Yash Dayal to Narine. A yorker hits Narine's toe. A full-toss goes for a dot. Leg-bye single next. Salt hits two fours and a double to end the over.

Salt and Narine open for KKR against Siraj. Salt starts with a six and a four. A couple of singles and leg-byes in the over.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Mohammed Siraj

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana

Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the toss and opt to bowl.

Shreyas Iyer - Last afternoon game here, we know how the wicket plays, we would have loved to bowl as well. It's stiflingly hot and we'll look to make them as tired as possible. We've tried to keep things simple, it's not about how you start, it's about how you end, just stick to the basics. We are playing the same team. It's important to assess the conditions, execute our plans, then it'll go in our favour

Faf du Plessis - We will chase. This is probably a chasing ground, always has been. I'm a fan of abetting first when it'[s really hot, but the temperature did drop after an hour or so yesterday, unlike in Mumbai or Chennai where it stays very hot. The batting is so strong that a general score or 60-70 isn't considered great. We have three changes - Green and Siraj come back, so does Mayank Dagar. We know if we do a few things back, the momentum can be back and we do have the firepower.

Matches played: 34, Kolkata Knight Riders won: 20, Royal Challengers Bengaluru won: 14

KKR vs RCB head-to-head at Eden Gardens

Matches played: 11, Kolkata Knight Riders won: 7, Royal Challengers Bengaluru won: 4

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

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

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Source : DNA India