The Kolkata Knight Riders got the 7th position in the Points table with getting just two victories out of seven matches. The other team Royal Challengers Bangalore also played seven matches and they named five victories so far, and they are standing at number 3 in the points table. In the first match of season 14, Royal Challengers Bangalore had won by 2 wickets against MI, the target was 160.
GJ Maxwell is the top-runs scorer of the season from the RCB team. He scored 223 runs in seven matches. AB de Villiers scored 207, V Kohli 198, D Padikkal 195. HV Patel is their leading wickets taker of the 2021 IPL season. He took 17 wickets in seven matches. From the KKR team, PJ Cummins is their top performer in the bowling department with nine wickets. M Prasidh Krishna took 8 and AD Russell 7. N Rana is the leading runs scorer of the KKR team with 201 runs, RA Tripathi 187, and AD Russell 163.
Toss: RCB chose to bat.
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Highlights today, Monday 20-09-2021 – 31st Match (N), Indian Premier League season 14th from Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi.
Kolkata Knight Riders team: 1 Venkatesh Iyer, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Rahul Tripathi, 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Andre Russell, 7 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Lockie Ferguson, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Prasidh Krishna.
Royal Challengers Bangalore team: 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Devdutt Padikkal, 3 KS Bharat (wk), 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 Wanindu Hasaranga, 7 Sachin Baby, 8 Kyle Jamieson, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal.
Match Timings: 14:00 GMT | 18:00 Local
Umpires – Chris Gaffaney, Yeshwant Barde
TV Umpires – Sundaram Ravi, Virender Sharma
Match Referee – Narayanan Kutty, Prakash Bhatt
Reserve Umpire – Anil Dandekar, Ulhas Gandhe
Match number – Indian Premier League 2021 Match No 31st
