RCB records in Eden Garden: Most runs and wickets for RCB at Kolkata Eden Gardens

RCB records in Eden Garden: Royal Challengers Bangalore have played 10 matches across as many seasons at the Eden Gardens.

A massive favour by Mumbai Indians resulted in Royal Challengers Bangalore qualifying for the playoffs of the ongoing 15th season of the Indian Premier League. RCB, who had won eight and lost six out of their 14 league matches, needed MI to beat Delhi Capitals in the penultimate league match of the season last week.

Bangalore, one of the three teams (alongside Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings) to have played the IPL since its inaugural season in 2008 without winning a single title, have qualified for the playoffs for the eighth time and wouldn’t want to let this opportunity go waste in search of an elusive IPL title.

RCB records in Eden Garden (numbers have been updated)

Set to face Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2022 Eliminator in Kolkata tonight, Royal Challengers will have to play better than they have in the past record at the Eden Gardens.

It is noteworthy that RCB have won five and lost six out of their 11 matches across as many seasons at this venue over the years. The last time when Bangalore had played here was IPL 2022 Eliminator where they had defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 14 runs. The match is fondly remembered for batter Rajat Patidar’s maiden IPL century.

Kohli, who has started IPL 2023 by scoring a marvelous half-century against Mumbai Indians, is their highest run-scorer in Kolkata among active players.

In 11 IPL matches at the Eden Gardens, Kohli has scored 332 runs at an average of 41.50 and a strike rate of 127.69 including a century and half-century each. Former Royal Challengers greats Chris Gayle (346) and AB de Villiers (152) have also played exceedingly well here.

As far as bowlers are concerned, all their Top Five wicket-takers in Kolkata in Sreenath Aravind (5), Yuzvendra Chahal (5), Dale Steyn (5), Josh Hazlewood (3) and Chris Woakes (3) no longer play for them. While Hazlewood is part of their current squad, he hasn’t joined their camp due to an injury.