Ahead of KKR's IPL 2018 season opener at home, In Eden Garden stadium against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opt to field.

KKR captain Dinesh Karthik won the toss and decided to field.KKR would look to steer in a fresh era under new skipper Dinesh Karthik while Kohli's standing as a captain and batsman has grown assorted in last one year

Quinton de Kock and Brendon McCullum start the RCB innings as R Vinay Kumar with the ball for KKR.

In over 6.0 Royal Challengers Bangalore 52/1  Brendon McCullum 33*, Virat Kohli 10*

In overs 4 Brendon McCullum 21*, Virat Kohli 9*  and RCB to 34/1

In over 1.4 Piyush Chawla struck early, Quinton de Kock gone for 4 here RCB 18/1.

In over 0.4 Brendon McCullum  with SIX went past 9000 runs in T20s and become second player to do so here  RCB 10/0

PLAYING XIs

Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik (w/c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar, Mitchell Johnson, Kuldeep Yadav

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Quinton de Kock (w), Brendon McCullum, Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Chris Woakes, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal