IPL 2025 Match-39 : Kolkata vs Gujarat pre-match views
IPLT20 2025 39th Match between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Gujarat Titans will be played on Monday, April 21, 2025 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata 7:00 pm onwards.
Having well balanced team, Kolkata Knight Riders won 3 times IPL title in 2012, 2014 and 2024 as well. Kolkata will try win this match. Knight Riders has good batsmen like : Rinku Singh, AM Rahane, Manish Pandey, Q de Kock and good bowlers like : Anrich Nortje, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakrawathy, Harshit Rana, Mayank Markande and Umran Malik along with good all-rounders like : Andre Russell, Moeen Ali, Venkatesh Iyer and Ramandeep Singh with good Indian capped and un-capped players to make best eleven to play.
Just three years in IPL life, Gujarat Titans achieved lot in 1st two year. Gujarat won IPL title in debut season in 2022 and claimed 2nd position with runner-up team in IPL 2023 as well. Unfortunately, in last IPL season Gujarat Titans fall to 8th position with 5 wins in 14 matches. This year, Ahmedabad based team Gujarat Lions has good players to make better start of IPL 2025 with winning knock. Titans has good batsmen like : Skipper Shubman Gill, Jos Buttler, B Sai Sudarshan, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Sherfane Rutherford and good bowlers like : Kagiso Rabada, Mohammad Siraj, Ishant Sharma, Washington Sundar, Gerald Coetzee, Prasiddh Krishna, R Sai Kishor along with good all-rounders like : Rashid Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Jayant Yadav, Mahipal Lomror and Karim Janat with good Indian capped and un-capped player to make best eleven to play.
| Head to Head | |
| Played : 4 | |
| Kolkata Won | Gujarat won |
| 1 | 2 |
Kolkata Knight Riders Rinku Singh's winning knock against Gujarat's Yash Dayal with five massive sixes in last over is un-forgettable. We have also witnessed AD Russell's power with big six hittings in previous seasons. Top order Q de Kock, Venkatesh Iyer and AM Rahane provides better batting line-up to KKR. World Class Sunil Narine with Varun Chakrawathy and Moeen Ali gives Kolkata huge strength in spin attack. Pace transforming bowlers Harshit Rana, Umran Malik and Anrich Nortje will raise power to Knight Riders for attacking attitude to hold IPL trophy once again in 2025 as well.
Without Hardik Pandya this year, having inform newly appointed skipper like Shubman Gill, Gujarat Titans in batting line-up depends on Shubman Gill, Jos Buttler, B Sai Sudarshan, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Shahrukh Khan and Sherfane Rutherford for high quality batting. In bowling department Kagiso Rabada, Mohammad Siraj, Rashid Khan, Ishant Sharma, Washington Sundar, Gerald Coetzee, Prasiddh Krishna and Jayant Yadav will have to raise their hands for match winning bowling performances and put Gujarat once again in front foot for IPL title 2025.
Looking at previous match data, Kolkata won 1 matches and Gujarat won 2 matches out of 5 matches played in IPL history. Gujarat team holds nearly good winning records against Kolkata in past statistics. In this match Kolkata has home ground advantage to do well. Just a finger cross and enjoy Kolkata vs Gujarat match on match day. Team that perform better than opponent team will win and earn important 2 points in points tally of IPLT20 2025.
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