Match Preview – KKR vs RR 31st Match, IPL

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Match details

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

Big picture

First and second. Bowling vs. Batting. Rajasthan Royals will take on Kolkata Knight Riders, the team with the best combined economy rate in the IPL (8.33) at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday. SecondBest scoring rate (10.43 – After this prediction was published, Sunrisers Hyderabad leapfrogged, rising from 10.09 to 10.81. Attack on Royal Challengers Bangalore)

The Royals bowled an attack full of experience and guile, repeatedly breaking away from games that controlled every phase of the innings. KKR have a line-up of seemingly endless depth, thanks to a pair of ageless West Indian all-rounders, which gives their batsmen almost limitless freedom to play their shots.

These are two different teams, but they are similar in how innovative they can be in terms of tactics. If enough players from both sides click, this contest can be quite a feast for the spectators.

Form guide

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Team news and impact player strategy

Kolkata Knight Riders
Nitish Rana has not featured for KKR since suffering a hand injury in their season opener against Sunrisers Hyderabad on March 23. Rana was training ahead of their latest match against Lucknow Supergiants and KKR will surely be tempted. If he is fully fit – play him especially if R Ashwin is in the opposition (more on this soon).

Possibility XII 1 Phil Salt (weekly), 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Angkrish Raghuvanshi/Nitish Rana, 4 Shreyas Iyer (captain), 5 Venkatesh Iyer, 6 Rinku Singh7 Andre Russell, 8 Ramandeep Singh, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Vaibhav Arora, 11 Harshit Rana, 12 Varun Chakraborty.

Rajasthan Royals
Jos Buttler and Ashwin missed Royals’ recent match against Punjab Kings on Saturday. Off-spinner Tanush Kotyan – who did not bowl and open the batting against Punjab – and Rovman Powell or Keshav Maharaj, depending on the outcome of the toss, are both expected to be fit with a return to the sub-bench. .

Possibility XII 1 Yassav Jaiswal, 2 Jos Buttler, 3 Sanju Samson (captain and week), 4 Ryan Parag, 5 Shimran Hetmyer, 6 Dhruv Jurel, 7 Rowman Powell/Keshav Maharaj8 R Ashwin, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Avesh Khan, 11 Kuldeep Sen12 Yuzvendra Chahal.

In the spotlight

Harshit Rana He was the unsung hero for KKR in their win over LSG on Sunday, his figures of 0 for 35, 17 for Nicholas Pooran and conceding just 16 runs off 11 balls despite his skirmish in the 19th over, masking just how influential he was. Harshit’s changes of pace and use of the over-the-wicket angle to tilt the ball away from the left-hander’s hitting arc were crucial and he may need to call on those defensive skills again if he comes up against Shimron Hetmyer. Tuesday.

R Ashwin A master against left-handed batsmen, but he did not enjoy bowling to the two key KKR left-handers. Nitish Rana scored 108 runs off 58 balls without dismissalSunil Narine scored 60 off 22 when dismissed. once.

Statistics are important

  • Six of the eight KKR batters who have scored at least 50 runs this season have 150 plus strike rates and one has gone for 144.44. Speed ​​scoring is an exception to this rule Shreyas IyerHis 129 runs came at 120.56.

  • Yuzvendra Chahal has taken a wicket every 12 balls in IPL 2024, his best strike rate in any season of this tournament.

  • Chahal needs three wickets to reach the 350 mark in T20 cricket.

  • Avesh Khan has bowled the joint-most overs (10) at the death (last four) of any bowler in IPL 2024 with Mustafizur Rahman and Mohit Sharma and his economy rate (9.30) puts him in the top half of bowlers sent off. At least five overs have been bowled at that stage this season.

  • In two matches at the Eden Gardens so far this season, Sunil Narine has an economy rate of 4.50 in eight overs and hasn’t conceded a single boundary. Other spinners in those matches have gone for a total of 10.01 per over.

    • Pitch and conditions

    Eden Gardens has hosted just two matches so far this season – a run-fest in late March where KKR narrowly missed out. defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad, and KKR were pushed aside when they were bowled out low-scoring on Sunday afternoon A different LSG unit. It’s not a large enough sample size to draw many conclusions, but the ball tends to come into the bat here at large, and the outfield is lightning fast.

    Karthik Krishnaswamy is an Associate Editor at ESPNcricinfo

       
     

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