Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers will face Eoin Morgan-led Kolkata Knight Riders in the Eliminator of the Indian Premier League 2021 on Monday. Both the teams are coming after a win in their last league match. RCB won a final-ball thriller while KKR registered a big win over Rajasthan Royals.
This is second consecutive playoff entry for RCB and that came when their skipper Virat Kohli has decided to quit captaincy at the conclusion of this season.
RCB finished the league stage at No.3 spot with 18 points.
KKR were the last and the fourth team to make into the playoffs.
The Eliminator will be played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah
Likely XIs
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (C), Devdutt Padikkal, Kona Srikar Bharat (wk), Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dan Christian, George Garton, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
Bench: Tim David, Wanindu Hasaranga, Sachin Baby
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan (C), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy
Bench: Pawan Negi, Ben Cutting, Tim Seifert
