Match Preview – KKR vs RR thirty first Match, IPL

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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 staff with one of the best mixed economic system price within the IPL (8.33) will come up towards Kolkata Knight Riders, the staff with the second-best scoring price (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 filled with expertise and guile that repeatedly comes away from video games having managed every part of a bowling innings. KKR have a line-up of seemingly countless depth, due to a pair of ageless West Indian allrounders, which provides their batters virtually limitless freedom to play their pictures.

These are two very completely different groups, however they’re comparable in how modern they are often in tactical phrases. If sufficient gamers on either side click on, then, this contest might be fairly a feast for the viewer.

Type information

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

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Workforce information and Impression Participant technique

Kolkata Knight Riders

Nitish Rana hasn’t featured for KKR since injuring his hand throughout their first recreation of the season, towards Sunrisers Hyderabad on March 23. Rana was seen coaching forward of their most up-to-date recreation, towards Lucknow Tremendous Giants, and KKR will definitely be tempted to play him if he is totally 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, towards 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 towards Punjab – and both Rovman Powell or Keshav Maharaj, relying on the toss outcome, 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.

Within the highlight

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 happening through the seventeenth and nineteenth overs. Harshit’s adjustments 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 must name on these defensive abilities once more if he comes up towards Shimron Hetmyer on Tuesday.

R Ashwin is a grasp towards left-hand batters, however he is not 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.

Rajasthan Royals boast one of the best mixed economic system price within the IPL•BCCI

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 price for any season of this event.

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

Avesh Khan has bowled the joint-most overs (10) on the demise (final 4) of any bowler in IPL 2024 alongside Mustafizur Rahman and Mohit Sharma, and his economic system price (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 to this point this season, Sunil Narine has an economic system price 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 to this point 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 isn’t a big sufficient pattern dimension to attract too many conclusions from, however by and enormous the ball tends to return onto the bat right here, and the outfield is lightning fast.

Karthik Krishnaswamy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo