Royal Challengers Bengaluru will lock horns against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur in the 57th match of the ongoing IPL 2026 on Wednesday. While RCB is on the cusp of playoffs qualification, KKR’s every match is a do-or-die contest.

KKR have been able to keep themselves in the tournament with four consecutive wins. On the other hand, RCB were able to get the much-needed win in the last game against Mumbai Indians.

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Rajat Patidar needs two sixes to complete 100 maximums in the IPL. He needs SIX fours to complete 100 boundaries in the tournament. The RCB skipper needs 63 runs to complete 1500 runs in the IPL.

Krunal Pandya needs 111 runs to complete 2000 runs in the IPL.

Sunil Narine needs nine fours to complete 200 boundaries in the IPL. 

Matheesha Pathirana needs three wickets to complete 50 scalps in the tournament.

Rachin Ravindra needs 10 fours to complete 50 boundaries in the IPL.

Manish Pandey needs 58 runs to reach the 4000-run mark in the IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Ajinkya Rahane(c), Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Kartik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ramandeep Singh, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Tim Seifert, Rachin Ravindra, Blessing Muzarabani, Matheesha Pathirana, Rahul Tripathi, Sarthak Ranjan, Prashant Solanki, Saurabh Dubey, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad: Jacob Bethell, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Venkatesh Iyer, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Jacob Duffy, Swapnil Singh, Philip Salt, Nuwan Thushara, Vihaan Malhotra, Abhinandan Singh, Kanishk Chouhan, Satvik Deswal