IPL 2025 kicked off at the Eden Gardens on Saturday with a grand opening ceremony featuring a speech by Shah Rukh Khan followed by performances by Shreya Ghoshal, Disha Patani and Karan Aujla.

SRK was then joined on stage by Virat Kohli and Rinku Singh who both shook a leg with him.

All of this delayed the toss by 15 minutes, which was won by RCB skipper Rajat Patidar who elected to bowl first.

Here are the playing XIs of both teams:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal

Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock, Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy