The 31st Match of the Indian Premier League is scheduled to play between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Monday, 20th September 2021 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Almost all teams are missing their key players in this second half of IPL and the same condition is with Kolkata Knight Riders. They are going to miss their key bowler Pat Cummins, who was the leading wicket-taker in the first half which was played in India. He was also scoring runs consistently at the strike rate of 150 plus. Tim Southee had been picked as the replacement for Pat Cummins but we don’t think that he will fill his space.

Royal Challengers Bangalore is a team that had made some key changes in their squad for the remaining matches. We think that they had made good decisions as many of their key players were not available. The best players of T20 format of cricket like George Garton, Tim David, Akash Deep, Wanindu Hasaranga, and Dushmanth Chameera had joined Royal Challengers Bangalore for the second leg of this tournament. In our opinion, Washington Sundar is a big loss for this team who had been just outstanding with the bat in the first half of IPL 2021.

Kolkata Knight Riders had played 28 matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore where Kolkata Knight Riders had won 15 matches while Royal Challengers Bangalore had won 13 matches.

Royal Challengers Bangalore is a strong and well-balanced team and has a strong batting and bowling department which is in good form. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger at least on papers. According to today’s prediction, Royal Challengers Bangalore is the favorite team that will win this match. There are many factors that make Royal Challengers Bangalore a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• The batting order of Royal Challengers Bangalore is strong and experienced
• Royal Challengers Bangalore have more strength in their bowling department
• Royal Challengers Bangalore are strong when it comes to power-hitting
• Kolkata Knight Riders have depth in the batting and bowling

Royal Challengers Bangalore is overall a strong team than Kolkata Knight Riders. They have the best players of the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitters of the t20 format are part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today’s match for Royal Challengers Bangalore have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Royal Challengers Bangalore have a 56% chance to win this match
Kolkata Knight Riders have a 44% chance to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL T20 as we had observed in the previous editions. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as defending had been difficult in the most recent matches of IPL.

The 31st Match of IPL T20, 2021 is going to be held at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting in early overs. We had seen the total score of near about 220 runs in most recent three matches played here. The track has a good amount of pace and bounce which allows the batsmen for the good cricketing shorts but this ground also has big boundaries which can be a plus point for the bowlers. A score of 180 plus seems to be a par score.

The weather forecast of Abu Dhabi is almost good for this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Date: Monday, 20th September 2021
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 06:00 PM LOCAL / 08:00 PM IST(BD)

Stadium: Sheikh Zayed Stadium
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Opened: 2004
Capacity: 20,000
Ends: North End, Pavilion End
Time Zone: UTC +04:00
Home to: United Arab Emirates
Floodlights: Yes

Total matches: 47
Matches won batting first: 22
Matches won bowling first: 25
Average 1st Inns scores: 140
Average 2nd Inns scores: 129
Highest total recorded: 225/7 (20 Ov) by IRE vs AFG
Lowest total recorded: 87/10 (18.3 Ov) by HK vs OMAN
Highest score chased: 166/6 (19.4 Ov) by HK vs AFG
Lowest score defended: 129/6 (20 Ov) by ENG vs PAK

Nitish Rana, Sheldon Jackson, Tim Seifert, Andre Russell, Ben Cutting, Pawan Negi, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Harbhajan Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, Rinku Singh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik, Karun Nair.