In Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 Match 31, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will host Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on April 16 (Tuesday) at 7:30 PM IST. It will be a battle between the top of the table and whoever wins will top the points table in IPL 2024. So far, the teams are evenly matched in the leadoff battle as well.
Kolkata Knight Riders are placed second in the points table while Rajasthan Royals are at the top. Kolkata Knight Riders have won four of their five matches this season while Rajasthan Royals have won 5 of six. In their recent match against Lucknow Supergiants, Phil Salt’s 89 runs helped Kolkata Knight Riders emerge victorious. Meanwhile, Rajasthan Royals improved in their last match against Punjab Kings, with Akashvi Jaiswal contributing 39 runs.
KKR Vs RR Head to Head Results –
Kolkata and Rajasthan have played 28 IPL matches so far. KKR won 14 matches while RR won 13 matches. One match has no results. Kolkata’s highest score so far against RR is 210 while Rajasthan’s highest score against KKR is 217.
Rajasthan have won three of their last five matches against Kolkata. In the last match between the two in IPL 2023, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 98 off 47 balls as RR chased down 149/8 to win by 9 wickets.
KKR Vs RR Pitch Report –
A batsman’s paradise, Eden Gardens always favors the batting side. Here the pacers have taken 519 wickets so far and the spinners have taken 390 wickets. Eden Gardens has hosted 84 IPL matches so far and 50 of its teams have won by batting second. KK has played 79 of these matches, winning 47 and winning 26 times. Kolkata have played nine matches against RR so far, out of which they have won 6 and lost 2. Rajasthan have played 10 matches in Kolkata so far and lost 8 of them.
KKR Vs RR Weather Report –
According to AccuWeather, there will be strong sunshine in Kolkata on Tuesday, April 16. In the afternoon, the temperature reaches 39 degrees Celsius. At 8 o’clock in the afternoon, the temperature drops to 30 degrees Celsius. The humidity in Kolkata is around 85-90 percent at night. The expected wind speed at the site will be about 16 km/h.
KKR Vs RR Team Squads
Kolkata Knight Riders can play eleven.
Philip Salt (wicket keeper), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty.
Bench – Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Suyyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Allah Ghazanfar, Saqib Hussain, Sherfane Rutherford, Chetan Sakariya, Nitish Rana, Shrikar Bharat, Dushmantha Chameera.
Rajasthan Royals can play eleven.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tanush Kotian, Sanju Samson (captain and wicketkeeper), Ryan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurrell, Rovman Powell, Keshav Maharaj, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Bench – Rovman Powell, Kuldeep Sen, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shubham Dubey, Navdeep Sani, Abid Mushtaq, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jos Buttler, Sandeep Sharma, Nandre Berger, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Singh Rathore.