After waiting for several days, now the Indian Premier League has returned once again. The IPL 2025 season is starting from Saturday 22 March at the Eden Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata. In the first match of the 18th season of the league, there will be a collision between current champions Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Kolkata, who is playing on the home ground, will not only have an eye on the fans, but everyone will also pay attention to Virat Kohli of Bangalore, who will achieve a special place as soon as he scored 38 runs in this match.

The first match of IPL 2025 to be held on Saturday at Eden Gardens is very special. Both teams are colliding in the first match of any season of IPL after 17 years. Earlier in the first season of IPL in 2008, there was a clash in the first match of Bangalore and Kolkata tournaments. Then Kolkata won that match in a spectacular manner. Now Bengaluru will also expect to do something similar.

Kohli just 38 runs away

Virat Kohli, the star batsman who scored the most runs in the history of IPL and former Bengaluru captain Virat Kohli will once again be the backbone of his team's batting. Orange cap winner of the previous season Kohli will once again continue to score runs against Kolkata. This match can prove to be special for Kohli and for this he will need only 38 runs.

If Kohli scored 38 runs in this match, then 1000 runs will be completed against Kolkata Knight Riders. Kohli has so far scored 962 runs in 31 innings against Kolkata in the IPL, with his average of 38 and the strike rate is 132. Kohli has scored 1 century and 6 half -centuries against KKR. More runs than them are only from David Warner (1093) and Rohit Sharma (1070).

Will become the first batsman

Not only this, Kohli will also become the first batsman of RCB to do so. Kohli scored 83 runs in 59 balls in a match against KKR last year but could score only 18 runs in the second match. Bangalore had lost both of them, out of which the team lost by just 1 run in the second match. In such a situation, Kohli will not only want to play a big innings against this team, but will also try to avenge both the defeat of the previous season, so that the new season has a great start.