New Delhi: Moderate but consistent rainfall on Friday led players to cut their training sessions short and head indoors just ahead of the IPL 2025 season opener between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. As the two teams gear up for a rematch of the very first IPL encounter from 2008 the prospect of rain could spoil the start of the game if it impacts the proceedings on Saturday evening. KKR vs RCB IPL 2025 - Eden Gardens weather report As per Accuweather.com the rainy conditions are expected to continue from Friday evening through to Saturday morning. Cloudy in the morning with a couple of showers then intervals of clouds and sunshine in the afternoon the forecast indicates that the chances of precipitation are expected to drop to 25% by the evening. The India Meteorological Department has forecast thunderstorms and strong winds (40-60 km/h) in parts of Kolkata until March 22 caused by an anti-cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal. Isolated to scattered light or moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorms lightning and gusty winds likely over sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on March 20 and 21 the IMD announced. The KKR vs RCB game is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM IST on Saturday March 22 with the toss set for 7 PM IST. KKR squad: Ajinkya Rahane Manish Pandey Angkrish Raghuvanshi Rinku Singh Luvnith Sisodia Quinton de Kock Rahmanullah Gurbaz Sunil Narine Andre Russell Ramandeep Singh Anukul Roy Rovman Powell Venkatesh Iyer Moeen Ali Varun Chakravarthy Harshit Rana Vaibhav Arora Mayank Markande Umran Malik Anrich Nortje Spencer Johnson. RCB squad: Virat Kohli Rajat Patidar (c) Swastik Chikara Devdutt Padikkal Jitesh Sharma Philip Salt Manoj Bhandage Tim David Krunal Pandya Liam Livingstone Romario Shepherd Jacob Bethell Swapnil Singh Bhuvneshwar Kumar Josh Hazlewood Nuwan Thushara Lungi Ngidi Yash Dayal Rasikh Dar Salam Suyash Sharma Mohit Rathee Abhinandan Singh