Match Preview - KKR vs RR thirty first Match, IPL

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Match particulars Massive image Kind information Workforce information and Affect Participant technique Within the highlight Stats that matter Pitch and circumstances

Match particulars

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR – 2nd; P5 W4 L1) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR – 1st; P6 W5 L1)
Kolkata, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT)

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First versus second. Bowling versus batting. On Tuesday at Eden Gardens, Rajasthan Royals, the workforce with the perfect mixed economic system fee within the IPL (8.33) will come up in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders, the workforce with the second-best scoring fee (10.43 – Sunrisers Hyderabad leapfrogged them after this preview was printed, climbing from 10.09 to 10.81 courtesy their jaw-dropping assault on Royal Challengers Bangalore).

Royals have an assault stuffed with expertise and guile that again and again comes away from video games having managed every part of a bowling innings. KKR have a line-up of seemingly limitless depth, due to a pair of ageless West Indian allrounders, which supplies their batters nearly limitless freedom to play their pictures.

These are two very totally different groups, however they’re related in how modern they are often in tactical phrases. If sufficient gamers on each side click on, then, this contest could possibly be fairly a feast for the viewer.

Kind information

Kolkata Knight Riders WLWWW (most up-to-date match first)
Rajasthan Royals WLWWW

Workforce information and Affect Participant technique

Kolkata Knight Riders
Nitish Rana hasn’t featured for KKR since injuring his hand throughout their first recreation of the season, in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad on March 23. Rana was seen coaching forward of their most up-to-date recreation, in opposition to Lucknow Tremendous Giants, and KKR will definitely be tempted to play him if he is absolutely match – notably if R Ashwin is within the opposition (extra on this shortly).

Doubtless XII 1 Phil Salt (wk), 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Angkrish Raghuvanshi/Nitish Rana, 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 Venkatesh Iyer, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Andre Russell, 8 Ramandeep Singh, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Vaibhav Arora, 11 Harshit Rana, 12 Varun Chakravarthy.

Rajasthan Royals
Jos Buttler and Ashwin missed Royals’ most up-to-date match, in opposition to Punjab Kings on Saturday, with niggles. Each are anticipated to fit again in if match, with Tanush Kotian – an offspinner who did not bowl and opened the batting in that recreation in opposition to Punjab – and both Rovman Powell or Keshav Maharaj, relying on the toss consequence, returning to the subs bench.

Doubtless XII 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Jos Buttler, 3 Sanju Samson (capt & wk), 4 Riyan Parag, 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Dhruv Jurel, 7 Rovman Powell/Keshav Maharaj, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Avesh Khan, 11 Kuldeep Sen, 12 Yuzvendra Chahal.

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Harshit Rana was an unsung hero for KKR of their win over LSG on Sunday, his figures of 0 for 35 concealing how a lot of an influence he made by conceding simply 16 off 11 balls to Nicholas Pooran regardless of their skirmish going down in the course of the seventeenth and nineteenth overs. Harshit’s modifications of tempo and use of the over-the-wicket angle to slant the ball away from the left-hander’s hitting arc had been essential to this, and he would possibly have to name on these defensive abilities once more if he comes up in opposition to Shimron Hetmyer on Tuesday.

R Ashwin is a grasp in opposition to left-hand batters, however he isn’t loved bowling to 2 distinguished KKR left-handers. Nitish Rana has hit him for 108 runs in 58 balls with out being dismissed, whereas Sunil Narine has tonked him for 60 off 22 whereas being dismissed as soon as.

Stats that matter

Of the eight KKR batters to attain at the least 50 runs this season, six have 150-plus strike charges, and one has gone at 144.44. The exception to this rule of quick scoring has been Shreyas Iyer, whose 129 runs have come at 120.56.

Yuzvendra Chahal has taken a wicket each 12 balls in IPL 2024, his greatest strike fee for any season of this match.

Chahal wants three wickets to achieve the 350 mark in T20 cricket.

Avesh Khan has bowled the joint-most overs (10) on the dying (final 4) of any bowler in IPL 2024 alongside Mustafizur Rahman and Mohit Sharma, and his economic system fee (9.30) places him within the prime half of bowlers who’ve despatched down at the least 5 overs in that part this season.

In two video games at Eden Gardens up to now this season, Sunil Narine has an economic system fee of 4.50 throughout eight overs, and hasn’t conceded a single boundary. The opposite spinners in these video games have gone for a mixed 10.01 per over.

Pitch and circumstances

Eden Gardens has solely hosted two video games up to now this season – a run-fest in late March the place KKR narrowly defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad, and a lower-scoring outing on Sunday afternoon when KKR brushed apart a diffident LSG unit. It is not a big sufficient pattern dimension to attract too many conclusions from, however by and enormous the ball tends to come back onto the bat right here, and the outfield is lightning fast.

Karthik Krishnaswamy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo

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