"KKR vs RCB IPL 2025: All You Need – Date, Venue, Broadcast, Teams, Weather & Rivalry Stats

IPL 2025, KKR vs RCB:  The stage is set for IPL 2025, which is called the festival of India. Its first match is to be played between Kolkata and Bangalore, where defending champion KKR will once again want to make a great start. On the other hand, Bangalore will also want to start the season in a great style with the new captain.

This time you are going to get a different experience of watching IPL. Let us tell you that this time the merger of Star Sports and JioHotstar will give the audience a new experience. The 18th season of IPL is going to start from March 22 and before that the opening ceremony is also to be organized. In such a situation, through this article we are going to know that after all you can watch the first match of IPL 2025 live.

Kolkata's probable playing 11
Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje. Impact: Umran Malik/Angkrish Raghuvanshi.

Bangalore's probable playing 11
Virat Kohli, Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Rajat Patidar (captain), Liam Livingstone, Krunal Pandya, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal. Impact: Rasikh Salam/Devdutt Padikkal.

Weather Prediction
If we talk about the weather of Kolkata, there is a possibility of rain on this day. Let us tell you that the Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for this match. The possibility of rain during the day is up to 74 percent, while in the evening it increases to 90%. In such a situation, rain can cause disruption during the match and the match can also be cancelled.

Kolkata vs Bangalore head to head record
If we talk about Kolkata vs Bangalore in IPL, then these two teams have come face to face a total of 34 times. In this, Kolkata has had the upper hand and they have won 20 matches. Whereas Bangalore has won 14 matches.

When and where can you watch the match
If we talk about KKR vs RCB match, then you can watch this match on Star Sports Network and Sports 18 Network. Apart from this, its live streaming will be done on JioHostar.