Indian T20 League 2024: Kolkata vs Bengaluru, Match 36 - MPL Opinio Prediction

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Kolkata (KOL) will face Bengaluru (BAN) in the 36th match of the Indian T20 League 2024 on Sunday (April 21) at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Kolkata have won four out of six matches, while Bengaluru have been victorious on just one occasion in seven games.

Kolkata faced Rajasthan in their previous match, where Rajasthan chased down the target of 224 runs on the last delivery of their innings. Bengaluru lost their last game against Hyderabad by 25 runs. In the previous outing between the two teams this season, Kolkata defeated Bengaluru by seven wickets. 

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KOL vs BAN Head-to-Head Record: 

Kolkata and Bengaluru have faced each other in 33 matches so far in the Indian T20 League. Kolkata have won 19 matches, while Bengaluru have won 14 games. Bengaluru have won just a single game against Kolkata in their last five face-offs. Bengaluru last won a match at the Eden Gardens against Kolkata back in 2019. 

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Kolkata vs Bengaluru, Match 36: Today's MPL Opinio Prediction

KOL vs BAN Probable Playing XIs

Kolkata:

Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana 

Bengaluru:

Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Saurav Chauhan, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Reece Topley, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal 

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Eden Gardens Pitch Report 

The Eden Gardens has been a high-scoring venue and the average first innings score in the last 10 T20 matches here has been 194 runs. The teams winning the toss have majorly elected to bowl. The team winning the toss might look to bowl in this match as well. 

KOL vs BAN Key Player Battles

Virat Kohli vs Kolkata’s bowlers 

Kohli is just 56 runs away from scoring 1000 runs against Kolkata. He has scored six half-centuries and one century against Kolkata. Kohli has a batting average of 31.8 against Sunil Narine and 44 against Andre Russell. He has a batting strike rate of 224.1 against Mitchell Starc. 

Philip Salt vs Bengaluru’s bowlers 

Salt has a batting strike rate of 146.67 in the powerplay and is the second-highest run-scorer for Kolkata. He made 30 runs off 20 deliveries against Bengaluru in the last game this season. 

Andre Russell vs Bengaluru 

Russell has scored 396 runs in 14 innings against Bengaluru at a strike rate of 205.2. He has picked 12 wickets at an average of 31. Russell has a batting strike rate of 200 against Alzarri Joseph. He has made 22 runs off 12 deliveries against Reece Topley. 

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Sunil Narine vs Bengaluru 

Narine won the Player of the Match award in the last game against Bengaluru. He picked the wicket of Glenn Maxwell and gave away 40 runs in four overs. With the bat, Narine scored 47 runs off 22 deliveries. Narine has a batting strike rate of 233.3 against Yash Dayal.