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Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals IPL 2026: Today on Sunday (April 19), the 28th league match of IPL 2026 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens. This will be the first match of the Sunday double header, which will start at 3:30 pm. The toss will be held for the first half hour at 3 pm.
Kolkata will look for its first win of the season through the match. KKR has played 6 matches, in which they lost 5 and 1 match remained inconclusive due to rain. On the other hand, Rajasthan would like to win. Rajasthan has played 5 matches so far, in which they have won 4. So let us know which team wins in this match.
Kolkata vs Rajasthan Head to Head
So far 32 matches have been played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. Kolkata has taken the lead in these matches and has won 16 of them. Rajasthan has won 14 matches. The remaining 2 matches between the two remained inconclusive.
Who will win in the competition?
Last season, 2 matches were played between the two, in which Kolkata won. Looking at the head to head and last season’s clash, KKR seems to be ahead, but looking at the performance of both the teams in the current season, Rajasthan seems to have the upper hand. Our prediction meter also says that Rajasthan Royals can win in today’s match.
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
Tim Seifert (wicketkeeper), Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Kartik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Manish Pandey, Rahul Tripathi, Sarthak Ranjan, Rachin Ravindra, Prashant Solanki, Blessing Muzarabani, Saurabh Dubey, Mathisha Pathirana, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra.
Rajasthan Royals squad
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Luan-Dre Pretorius, Ryan Parag (captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Donovan Ferreira, Joffra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Ravi Bishnoi, Nandre Berger, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravi Singh, Shubham Dubey, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Dasun Shanaka, Kuldeep Sen, Sushant Mishra, Yudhveer Singh Charak, Vignesh Mafaka, Quena Mafaka Puthur, Aman Rao Perla.
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