KKR vs RR Highlights: The reigning champions KKR, will take on the Rajasthan Royals in their opening IPL 2025 encounter. Guwahati’s Barsapara Cricket Stadium will host the game. In the IPL 2025, KKR got off to a terrible start.
In the opening IPL 2025 encounter, Rajasthan Royals fell to Hyderabad by 44 runs, while KKR lost to RCB by 7 wickets.
KKR vs RR in ILP 2025
Today’s thrilling IPL 2025 encounter between Kolkata and Rajasthan will take place at Guwahati’s Barsapara Cricket Stadium. Only four T20 matches have been played on this field in IPL history thus far; two of those matches took place in 2023, while two more took place in 2024, with one match being canceled due to inclement weather. The three matches that have been played on this field indicate that while the batsmen will gain from it, the bowlers will also be crucial.
The Guwahati surface has a fierce rivalry between the bowlers and batsmen, in contrast to most IPL grounds where the batters dominate the game. Although the fast bowlers have had the most impact here, the spinners are also not going to fall behind and may be considered as having a significant role in breaking some strong partnerships in the middle overs.
Rajasthan Royals Victory Over Delhi Capitals
The Rajasthan Royals’ 2023 victory over the Delhi Capitals at Barsapara Cricket Stadium stands as the highest IPL score to date with 199 runs for 4 wickets. Here, the team that bats first averages 135 runs. Out of the three games played here, the club that batted first has won two of them.
However, the team that bats later has won one game. Former cricketer Shikhar Dhawan holds the record for Guwahati’s best individual score of 86 not out. At the same time, Australian fast bowler Nathan Ellis recorded the best bowling performance (4/30).
KKR vs RR predicted playing 11
Kolkata Knight Riders squad: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Lavnity Sisodia, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Enrique Norkia, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Chetan Sakariya, Vaibhav Arora and Mayank Markhande.
Rajasthan Royals squad: Riyan Parag (temporary captain), Sanju Samson, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Rana, Yudhveer Singh, Jofra Archer, Mahesh Theekshana, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Karthikeya Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Quena Mphaka, Ashok Sharma, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Kunal Rathod.
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