Story Line
IPL 2025 – Match number 58 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru, will take place between RCB vs KKR on Saturday, May 17,2025. Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) stand in 2nd and 6th positions respectively in the points table.
| Match | RCB vs KKR (58 match of IPL 2025) |
| Match Date | Saturday, May 17, 2025 |
| Time | 7:30 PM (IST) |
| Venue | M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru |
Temporary Replacements In Line for RCB vs KKR – IPL 2025
After the break over a week, IPL resumes 17th May, BCCI has announced the new replacements rules for the remaining IPL 2025 season. Unavailability of the foreign players in the remaining IPL matches is the big problem.
In previous rule of IPL, all the team were allowed to sign the players till the 12th match, but due to the in-between break in IPL, BCCI has changed the rule and as per the new changed rule all the teams have got permission to sign the new players for the remaining matches of this IPL 2025 season and teams will not be allowed to be retained these players for the next IPL season. That is, if a player is signed by a team now, he will be released before the next season.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
Unavailable Players:
- Lungi Ngidi: Due to the preparation of World Test Championship final with South Africa, he will miss the playoffs matches
- Jacob Bethell: Not available for the playoffs due to national commitments with England.
- Devdutt Padikkal: Due to a right hamstring injury, he also miss the remaining matches of this season.
Replacements Players:
- Mayank Agarwal: He is the replacement of injured Devdutt Padikkal.
- There is no surety about the replacements for Jacob Bethell and Lungi Ngidi yet.
Note : As per some multiple sources, the Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood availability for the playoffs is not confirmed yet. As he is recover from the shoulder niggle.
Key Players of RCB
Virat Kohli, Krunal Pandya, Phil Salt
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Unavailable Players:
- Rovman Powell: Not available for the remaining matches due to some injuries.
- Moeen Ali: Due to some unknown reason he is not available for the remaining matches of this season.
Replacements Players:
- Anukul Roy: Moeen Ali could be replaced by the left-arm spinner Anukul Roy.
KKR has not announced replacements for Rovman Powell yet. But there is major chance that Manish Pandey the Bengaluru boy has been placed in the team.
Key Players of KKR
Ajinkya Rahane, Sunil Narine, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Virat Kohli At Chinnaswamy Stadium
First appearance of Virat Kohli after the announcement of Test cricket retirement in M Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru, fans eager to catch a glimpse of Kohli. There are hundreds of fans gathered outside the stadium while practice session of RCB team.
Probable playing XII squads of RCB vs KKR match:
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) | Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) |
| Phil Salt | Sunil Narine |
| Virat Kohli | Rahmanullah Gurbaz |
| Mayank Agarwal | Ajinkya Rahane(c) |
| Rajat Patidar(c) | Venkatesh Iyer |
| Jitesh Sharma (wk) | Manish Pandey |
| Romario Shepherd | Rinku Singh |
| Tim David | Andre Russell |
| Krunal Pandya | Ramandeep Singh |
| Yash Dayal | Vaibhav Arora |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Harshit Rana |
| Lungi Ngidi | Varun Chakravarthy |
| Suyash Sharma | Anrich Nortje/Spencer Johnson |
Pitch Reports
Today Bengaluru weather, Cloudy with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm this afternoon. Due to this conditions both teams not able to do training or enough practice session as well. The moisture inside the pitch helps to bower for the swing. And there is also a prediction for the thunderstorm in late afternoon and evening.
If you interested to know what Virat Kohli feels about RCB franchise then please read : Virat Kohli reflects on nearly 18 years with the RCB franchise