Kolkata Knight Riders will play against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the 36th match of the IPL 2024 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Despite losing to Rajasthan Royals in a last-ball thriller, Kolkata Knight Riders are well placed in the top half of the IPL standings at the halfway mark of the tournament. For Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who are struggling badly to put up a performance in the IPL 2024, all of their top players need to step up against a formidable opponent this weekend. Pitch Report The pitches at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata have proven to be very good for batters, and generally, they tend to improve as the night rolls along. With that, the average first innings score of 165 at this venue in the IPL, could be far from enough for either KKR or RCB to defend in their upcoming match KKR Probable XI: Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer/Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy [Impact Substitute: Vaibhav Arora] RCB Probable XI: Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Alzarri Joseph, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Mohammed Siraj [Impact Substitute: Yash Dayal]