KKR vs RR Head-To-Head: The Royals from Rajasthan will travel to the city of joy to take on the men in purple and gold, Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday, May 11. Rajasthan Royals are the number fourth ranked team in the points table winning five out of the eleven matches. Kolkata is also in a good touch winning the last two matches and climbing to number five on the points table. Both Sanju Samson ans Nitish Rana have been highly impressive as captains. The 56th match of the season will be played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The match is expected to be a delight for fans of both teams. Ahead of the fixture, we take a look at the KKR vs PBKS head-to-head record. Follow Indian Premier League 2023 Live Updates with Insidesport.IN
KKR vs RR Head-To-Head: Thrilling Thursday for cricket fans at Eden Gardens, Kolkata Knight Riders challenges Rajasthan Royals at home, Check KKR vs RR Head-To-Head stats in the IPL
When the going gets tough, Varun gets going! 💪pic.twitter.com/PZFUCNbHoe
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) May 8, 2023
KKR vs RR Head-To-Head
KKR was the winner of IPL 2012 and IPL 2014. On the other hand, RR won IPL 2008. Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals have played a total of 27 matches against each other. Kolkata have 14 wins in 27 matches while Royals have managed 12 wins and one match was called off due to rain.
The first match between the two teams was played in 2008 in which RR defeated KKY by a margin 0f 45 runs in Jaipur. Sawpnil Asnodkar scored 60 runs off 34 balls. Till 2018, RR was leading the records winning nine out of 15 matches. KKR started dominating after that winning eight out of 13 matches.
IPL 2022 saw the last match between KKR and RR, in which Kolkata won by seven wickets. Nitish Rana played a crucial knock scoring 48* off 37 balls. The 28th match between these two teams will be played on Thursday which will be the only match between the two franchises. While Rajasthan Royals will look to reduce the gap between the two, Kolkata Knight Riders will look to further extend the gap.
KKR vs RR Head-To-Head: Thrilling Thursday for cricket fans at Eden Gardens, Kolkata Knight Riders challenges Rajasthan Royals at home, Check KKR vs RR Head-To-Head stats in the IPL
GOATs to GOAT prep. 🐐🔥 pic.twitter.com/jWOgVSZyq1
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) May 7, 2023
KKR vs RR squad details
KKR full squad:
Nitish Rana (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, N. Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejroliya, Litton Das, Mandeep Singh, Shakib Al Hasan.
RR full squad
Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldeep Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa, Jason Holder, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Adam Zampa, KM Asif, Murugan Ashwin, Akash Vashisht, Abdul PA, Joe Root.
KKR vs RR Head-To-Head: Thrilling Thursday for cricket fans at Eden Gardens, Kolkata Knight Riders challenges Rajasthan Royals at home, Check KKR vs RR Head-To-Head stats in the IPL
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