Today (April 21) in IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders will host Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings will host Gujarat Titans – here is the predicted XI for the match, team news and today’s IPL match prediction for KKR vs RCB and PBKS vs GT.

KKR vs RCB, live score: Follow the live scorecard here

The match will begin at 3:30 pm IST.

PBKS vs GT, live score: Follow the live scorecard here

The match will begin at 7:30 pm IST.

KKR vs RCB, PBKS vs GT: Toss updates

RCB won the toss and elected to field first.

PBKS won the toss and elected to bat first.

KKR vs RCB, PBKS vs GT: IPL 2024 team news

The last time RCB and KKR met at IPL 2024, Sunil Narine surprised one and all with his blitz at the top Since then, Narine (and KKR) has gone from strength to strength and has also registered his maiden T20 hundred. RCB, on the other hand, have won only one out of their seven games and will be desperate for a turnaround at the Eden Gardens today.

Punjab Kings have made matches out of games that seemed dead and buried this season, thanks largely to Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma. Despite their best efforts, though, they only have four points to show from seven games and are languishing at ninth on the points table. Regular captain Shikhar Dhawan is not yet expected to be available for this game, which means Sam Curran will continue to lead and possibly continue to open the batting.

Gujarat Titans suffered a demoralising defeat in the last game at home, and would be itching to come back hard as well as get revenge for their close defeat against PBKS earlier in the tournament.

IPL 2024: Upcoming matches

RR vs MI – 7:30 pm IST

IPL 2024: Yesterday’s IPL match

DC vs SRH, Match 35 – SRH won by 67 runs

KKR vs RCB, PBKS vs GT: Predicted XIs for today’s IPL match

KKR: Phil Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy. Impact Players – Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz.

RCB: Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj. Impact Players – Mayank Dagar, Suyash Prabhudessai.

PBKS: Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran (c), Rilee Rossouw, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harshal Patel, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh. Impact Players – Harpreet Bhatia, Atharva Taide, Vidwath Kaverappa, Rahul Chahar, Shivam Singh.

GT: Shubman Gill (c), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Azmatullah Omarzai, David Miller, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Sandeep Warrier, Sai Kishore, Mohit Sharma. Impact Players – Sai Sudharshan, Darshan Nalkande, Manav Suthar, Vijay Shankar, BR Sharath.

KKR vs RCB, PBKS vs GT: Prediction for today’s IPL match

KKR hold the clear upper hand over RCB, both form-wise and home advantage-wise. The PBKS-GT clash will be more of a battle of equals, with PBKS having the slight edge.

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