RCB Green Jersey Match: When Will Royal Challengers Bengaluru Celebrate Go Green Day in IPL 2024?

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will continue their tradition of celebrating the "Go Green Day" in the ongoing IPL 2024 during which they will sport a green kit replacing the traditional red in their jerseys and trousers.

RCB usually choose an afternoon match, generally the 3:30 or 4 PM PM IST start, as their Go Green game in every season. These Go Green matches have traditionally been held at the home venue - M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

The Bengaluru-based side has already playing four of their home matches this season in which they lost three and won one with three more games to be played in May.

None of the remaining home fixtures is a 3:30 PM IST start, leading to the question of when will the Go Green match be held in IPL 2024. While none of their remaining home games will be an afternoon start, two away games for RCB will start at 3:30 PM IST in April.

The franchise has also held the Go Green match in a neutral venue in the past few seasons due to the COVID-enforced restrictions of a limited venue for the matches in seasons 2020, 2021 and 2022 before the game was held again in Bengaluru in 2023.

The RCB Green Jersey match has also been held as a night match in the 2021 season in Abu Dhabi, but that was when they sported special blue jersey as a tribute to Covid-19 frontline warriors in India and worldwide. So, when will RCB play the special match this season?

When is 2024 RCB Green match day?

RCB will sport the green jersey on April 21 in the 3:30 PM IST clash against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, the franchise announced on Thursday (April 18).

Why do RCB wear the green jersey?

The 'Go Green' initiative was coined for creating awareness about planting trees and reducing the effect of Global Warming. The skipper of RCB will also present a plant as a memento to the opposition skipper during the toss as part of the special initiative since 2011.

The Bangalore-based franchise wears the green jerseys, made of 100 percent recycled materials, only during the afternoon matches. But that pattern may change as the franchise may have to pick a night match as the 'Go Green' day due to the scheduling.

So far, RCB have played a total of 13 games in the Green Jersey, but possessed a poor record as they have just won four, while one match was abandoned in 2015 against Delhi Capitals due to rain.