Royal Challengers Bangalore will be playing their opening match of 2015 Indian Premier League season today against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. The live cricket match has been scheduled to kicks off at 20:00 local time and 14:30 GMT. Star Sports to bring live streaming and telecast of KKR vs RCB match online from 8:00 PM IST.
KKR won opening game of tournament quite comprehensively against Mumbai Indians and will be eager to keep on winning momentum against RCB as well. But it is not going to be easy for Kolkata to beat Bangalore as RCB are very strong and competitive side always.
Read more: KKR vs RCB match preview
Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik are the key pillars of Royal Challengers batting line up whereas they are highly depended on Adam Milne, Ashok Dinda and Varun Aaron in the bowling department. RCB are quite weak in terms of bowling line-up but the powerful batting can help them.
Kolkata are depending on Gambhir, Pandey, Uthappa and Yusuf. Narine, Shkib, Morne Morkel and Umesh Yadav are the key bowlers for KKR. Let’s have a look at the probable playing XI for today’s KKR vs RCB match.
Expected Playing 11s
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Gautam Gambhir (Captain) | Virat Kohli (Captain) |
| Manish Pandey | Chris Gayle |
| Robin Uthappa | Dinesh Karthik |
| Andre Russell | Yogesh Takawale |
| Yusuf Pathan | AB De Villiers |
| Suryakumar Yadav | Badrinath |
| Shakib Al Hasan | Manvinder Bisla |
| Sunil Narine | Darren Sammy |
| Veer Pratap Singh | Ashok Dinda |
| Morne Morkel | Adam Milne |
| Umesh Yadav | Varun Aaron |
Live Streaming, Telecast
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Live twenty20 cricket match telecast and streaming can be watched online on www.starsports.com and www.cricketgateway.com around the globe. Sony Max, Sony Six will be telecasting live RCB vs KKR match from 20:00 IST onward in Indian sub continent. SuperSport to broadcast this IPL 2015 game in South Africa whereas in United States region cricket fans can watch this 5th match of IPL on ESPN. Let’s have a look at the list of broadcasters.
| Region | Broadcaster |
| Indian Sub Continent | Sony Six, Sony Max |
| South Africa | SuperSport |
| United Kingdom and Europe | Sky Sports |
| Singapore | StarHub & Singtel |
| USA | ESPN |
| Caribbean | IMC SportsMax |
KKR vs RCB live IPLT20 cricket match scorecard and latest updates will be provided by espncricinfo.
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