Playing XI
Venue Insights (Abu Dhabi)
Highest Team Total: 206/4 By Punjab Against Chennai In 2014.
Lowest Team Total: 70/10 By Bangalore Against Rajasthan In 2014.
Highest Individual Score: 95 By Glenn Maxwell (Punjab) Against Chennai In 2014.
Best Bowling Figures: 4/20 By Sunil Narine (Kolkata) Against Mumbai In 2014.
Highest Partnership: 131 By Jacques Kallis And Manish Pandey (Kolkata) For 2nd Wicket Against Mumbai In 2014.
Win Rate Batting First: 60% (6 Won; 4 Lost)
Top Fantasy Picks - All Rounders
Morris has bowling figures of 4/26, 0/22, 2/17 and 3/19 so far this IPL. Interestingly, the match in which he was wicket-less, he scored a quickfire 25 of just 8 balls thus proving his all-round ability.
Sunil Narine is most likely to play against Bengaluru and might play really well as he has a great record against them. In his last 5 matches against them, he has taken as many wickets and scored 159 valuable runs.
Russell has a batting average of 48 and SR of 223 against Bengaluru, both of which is his personal best against a team; to go with that he also has a decent bowling record against them.
Top Fantasy Picks - Bowlers
With figures of 3/15 in his only match this season so far, Lockie Feguson certainly is a player to watch out for.
Yuzi Chahal has taken 13 wickets so far this season, which is the joint 4th highest. Also, the only time he played at Abu Dhabi this season, he had bowling figures of 3/24.
Mavi has taken 7 wickets so far in as many matches. As context, out of these 7 wickets, 5 have come at Abu Dhabi, thus an interesting pick given this match is also at the same venue.
Top Fantasy Picks - Batsmen & Keepers
Scores of 43, 48, 33*, 90*, 43 and 72* in the last 6 matches are descriptive enough to show why Kohli is in sublime touch this season. Also, a look at his recent form against Kolkata (last 5 matches): 33*, 100, 84, 68* and 31.
With 2 fifties in his last 3 innings, de Villiers looks to be in sublime touch. A look at his last 3 innings against Kolkata: 73* (this season), 63 and 44.
Gill has been pretty consistent with his batting producing three 30+ scores in his last 4 innings which includes a half-century. Also, the 2 fifties which he has scored this season have both come at Abu Dhabi.
Probable XI
Bangalore : Aaron Finch, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers(wk), Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Washington Sundar, Chris Morris, Shahbaz Ahmed, Isuru Udana, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal
Kolkata : Rahul Tripathi, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(wk), Eoin Morgan(c), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy
Preview
Kolkata meet Bangalore in Match 39 of the 2020 Indian T20 League. Both teams are coming off a win in their previous games but it is Bangalore who are the favorites at the moment, considering their performances of late. AB de Villiers has been in top form this year and the last time these two sides met, AB was the difference between the two. Mr. 360 did not stop there as he was in top gear against Rajasthan as well. Kolkata, on the other hand, won a Super Over against Hyderabad and now Morgan's men would look to build on that win. Their batting came up good while with the ball, Lockie Ferguson was the star for them. Will Bangalore do the double over Kolkata or will Morgan's men prevail this time?
Toss : Kolkata won the toss and elected to bat first.