When KKR and RCB teams are face to face at the Eden Gardens of Kolkata on 22 March, this will be a 35th clash between them in the IPL. But in the opening match of IPL, these two teams will be seen colliding for the second time. For the first time in the opening match of an IPL season, he collided in the year 2008, where only a KKR player overshadowed the entire RCB team. We are talking about Brendon McCullum, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore made the bat with the bat, whose entire team of RCB was winded up. In that match, McCullum had scored so many runs alone, as the entire team of RCB could not even make it.

Brendon McCullum scored 158 runs off 73 balls

In the match played on 18 April 2008, Kolkata Knight Riders batted first and scored 222 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs. In this, 158 unbeaten 158 runs were out of the bat of Brendon McCullum alone. That means he scored more than half of his team's runs alone. Not only this, once he got down to open, then he returned only after finishing the innings. McCullum scored 158 runs with 73 balls. The innings played at a strike rate of more than 216 included 13 sixes and 10 fours.

RCB could not even score 100 runs

Now Royal Challengers Bangalore had a target of 223 runs while playing the opening match of that IPL at their home ground.

However, the RCB team could not make even half of that total target. RCB's batting lineup, adorned with batsmen like Kohli, Kallis, Cameron White, Mark Boucher, was piled up within 100 runs under pressure of big score.

McCullum was enough for RCB!

Leave the total score of KKR in the match. RCB could not cross even by 158 runs scored by Brendon McCallum. The entire RCB team collapsed by scoring only 82 runs in 15.1 overs. In this, Virat Kohli scored only 1 run at a strike rate of 20.

Not only Virat, the rest of RCB's top order batsmen also had a similar condition. None of the 8 batsmen above scored 10 runs. The biggest score for the team was made by Praveen Kumar, who came out to bat at number 9. He scored 18 runs.

IPL 2008 impaired RCB's debut, what will happen in IPL 2025?

KKR won that opening match of IPL 2008 against RCB by 140 runs. RCB's debut with that match did not return to the track again. The team was at number 7 in 8 teams in the group stage. He lost 10 in 14 matches played on group stage.

Now the opening match of IPL 2025 is also between KKR and RCB.

Whatever happened 17 years ago, what happened will happen again with RCB. Or history will see itself changing. This time the opening match is on KKR's home ground.

Whatever happened 17 years ago, what happened will happen again with RCB. Or history will see itself changing. This time the opening match is on KKR's home ground.