RCB vs KKR 58th Match Betting Tips, Prediction Head-to-head and Livestream | IPL 2025

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season resumed after a one-week break. Royal Challengers Bengaluru face the Kolkata Knight Riders (RCB vs KKR) in the resumption game on May 17. The game is to be held at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru from 7:30 P.M IST.

• The Royal Challengers Bengaluru may seal their entry into the IPL 2025 playoffs with a victory here. For KKR, anything short of 2 points will take them out of playoffs contention.
• The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) boast an extremely well-balanced squad. There is depth in batting while bowling is highly experienced in game and tournament. Josh Hazlewood however is out for the remainder of the season.
• Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) might have been in top 2 right now if they had not lost 3-4 matches where they were comfortably in winning position, particularly the one against PBKS and CSK.

RCB vs KKR: Match Preview

RCB vs KKR: Recent Form (Last 5 Matches)

RCB: L, W, W, W, W*
KKR: L, L, W, W, L*

RCB vs KKR: Head-to-Head

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Preview

• Royal Challengers Bengaluru have played in excellent shape in the IPL 2025 and they would be hoping to secure their spot into the playoff with a victory here.
• RCB’s former captain and star batsman Virat Kohli still continues to demonstrate why is the greatest current generation batter. Kohli has amassed 505 runs in 11 matches.
• The Royals Challengers Bengaluru batsmen have done exceedingly well. Opening partner Phil Salt has contributed 239 runs and Rajat Patidar, Tim David and Jitesh Sharma have all had some important contributions.
• Devdutt Padikkal, who has been in top form in the IPL 2025, returning to the franchise after scoring 247 runs, will be out of the season because of injury.
• For bowling, Josh Hazlewood is RCB’s top wicket-taker in the IPL 2025 season with 18 wickets. Nevertheless, he will not be playing for the side this season again because of injury.
• In Hazlewood’s absence, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal play crucial roles. Krunal Pandya has also been in good form while Lungi Ngidi will take Hazlewood’s place.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Preview

• Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) met a huge setback in the previous match played against CSK, losing the game which they must have won by a huge margin. This has made KKR’s path to the playoffs nearly impossible now. They require more half a dozens results to favor them.
• Opening continue to be a concern for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Even though Sunil Narine is fulfilling his high risk role, but Quinton de Kock and K Rahmanullah Gurbaz have been unable to fill Phil Salt’s place. Surprisingly, KKR doesn’t have any 50+ opening wicket stand in IPL 2025.
• Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi have been the two most consistent run scorer for KKR in IPL 2025. Ajinkya has made 371 runs in 11 innings whereas Raghuvanshi has made 286 runs thus far.
• Andre Russell and Rinku Singh, who have been out of form with the bat this season, have been in superb form in the past two games.
• Bowling has been their prime reason for the success that they have achieved in the IPL 2025. The Indian bowling attack of Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana and Vaibhav Arora has performed well.
• Varun Chakravarthy is now the team’s leading wicket-taker with 17 wickets whereas Vaibhav and Harshit have 16 and 15 wickets respectively. Andre Russell and Moeen Ali have also chipped in with 8 and 6 wickets in hardly any chances they got with the ball.

RCB vs KKR: Probable XI

RCB Probable XI: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Jacob Bethell, Rajat Patidar (C), Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Lungi Ngidi, Yash Dayal.

Impact Player: Suyash Sharma

KKR Probable XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Anrich Nortje, Varun Chakravarthy.

Impact Player: Vaibhav Arora

RCB vs KKR Top Players

RCB Top Players

• Virat Kohli scored over 25.5 @1.65
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar took over 2 wickets @2.20

KKR Top Players

• Ajinkya Rahane scored over 22.5 @1.75
• Harshit Rana took over 2 wickets @2.10

RCB vs KKR: Pitch, Toss & Weather Reports

• Pitch & Toss Update – Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is a high-scoring ground. But the surface has played even-handed cricket this season, helping both the batsmen and bowlers. Only there have been occasions where 200+ has been posted on the board in an innings this season. Pace bowlers have done much better at the ground compared to spinners. Toss won’t be a big factor here. Though, the bowling first have a mental upper hand with chances of due to come later.
• Weather Report – The weather forecast for Saturday in Bengaluru indicates that there is simply no possibility of a game. It has been raining here for the past few days and on Saturday, 70% chance of rain from 5 P.M onwards and will keep raining till midnight, unless a sudden change. The temparature will also be on the cooler side at 24°C.

RCB vs KKR Betting Tips

• The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will be looking to officially book their ticket into the playoffs with a win here. While KKR can ill afford anything less than 2 points if they are to remain in the running.
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru have been an ideally balanced team. Batting and bowling has been superb for them as they search for their first ever IPL triumph.
• Virat Kohli and Phil Salt’s opening pair has been going great. One of them plays aggressive inning and the other plays controlled knock. Then the likes of Rajat Patidar, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David provides the batting depth.
• In the meantime, defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have definitely missed Phil Salt. Him and Sunil Narine were a championship winning duo. Gurbaz, Quinton de Kock etc. have not been able to fill his shoes.
• KKR’s middle-order caused headaches for the side at the early part of the season. However, as the season went along, the likes of Andre Russell and Rinku Singh are returning to their rhythm. However, Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi have been steadily performing.
• Bowling-wise, RCB will definitely miss Josh Hazlewood, but they still have the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Lungi Ngidi. KKR, however, have a very good bowling lineup with the likes of Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine etc.
• With all of that factors into consideration, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) are now the favorites to win this match. RCB also defeated KKR once before in this season and they are better positioned than the Knight Riders. Nonetheless, the rain might just end up having its say in this match.

Bet on Royal Challengers Bengaluru to WIN.