RCB will go for a hat-trick of wins in IPL 2023 today while KKR will go for a win after four consecutive defeats.

Royal Challengers Bangalore will go for a hat-trick of wins in IPL 2023 today while Kolkata will go for a win after four straight losses. The match will start at 7:30 PM at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Bangalore's spirits have risen after two consecutive wins. In this scenario, Faf du Plessis' team will try to enter the last four by winning with a better net run rate. This season, these two teams will play each other for the second time.

In the history of IPL, 32 matches have been played between these two teams in which Kolkata has won 18 matches and Bangalore has won 14 matches. In the last five matches of these teams too, Kolkata has dominated. Kolkata have won three of these five matches. In the match played between the two in this season of IPL, Kolkata defeated Bangalore by 81 runs. Royal Challengers Bangalore have played seven matches so far this season. In which he has won four and lost three. The Bangalore team has eight points this season. Kolkata Knight Riders have 2 wins and 5 losses in 7 matches played so far this season. The Kolkata team has only four points in this season.

Today's match will be played at Bangalore's home ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The wicket of this ground is more suitable for batsmen. Fast bowlers get very little help on this wicket but spinners get help on this wicket.

Scores of both teams

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Faf du Plessis (c), Dinesh Karthik (wkt), Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomarr, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Suyash Prabhudesai, David Willey, Wanindu Hasranga, Mohammad Siraj, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Finn Allen, Karn Sharma, Anuj Rawat, Michael Bracewell, Siddharth Kaul, Sonu Yadav, Manoj Bhandage, Van Parnell, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Himanshu Sharma

Kolkata Knight Riders

Nitish Rana (c), N Jagdeesan (wkt), Jason Roy, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejrolia, Suyesh Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, Venkatesh Iyer, Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora , Liton Das, Tim Southee, Lockie Ferguson, Shardul Thakur, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Harshit Rana, Arya Desai