Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals Highlights: Kolkata Knight Riders have finally registered their first win of IPL 2026. They have defeated Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets at Eden Gardens. The unbeaten 76-run partnership between Rinku Singh and Anukul Roy opened the account of KKR’s victory. For Rajasthan Royals, this won match was equivalent to losing, because RR bowlers had dropped 6 wickets of KKR even before the score of 100. After that, the Rajasthan bowlers were seen making waves in front of the game shown by Rinku and Anukul.

In this match played at Eden Gardens, Rajasthan Royals, batting first, scored 155 runs. In reply, Kolkata lost 6 wickets at the score of 85. But the strong and intelligent play of Rinku Singh and Anukul Roy gave Kolkata a thrilling victory in the last over.

KKR won the lost game, account of victory opened

Kolkata Knight Riders, who came to chase the target of 156 runs, had a very bad start. By the score of 5 runs, two wickets had fallen. Cameron Green was stumped, who scored 27 runs and captain Ajinkya Rahane could not even open the account. Within no time, Kolkata had lost 6 wickets by the time the score reached 85. At that time KKR’s winning percentage was only 16.

When the chances of victory were 16 percent, Rinku Singh and Anukul Roy took the responsibility. Both of them took the innings forward in a sensible manner. On one end Anukul stood firm, on the other side Rinku Singh kept hitting big shots. Rinku played a match-winning inning of 53 runs in 34 balls, while Anukul returned unbeaten after scoring 29 runs.

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21 runs had to be scored in 2 overs

The match seemed stuck till the 18th over. Kolkata had to score 21 runs to win in the last 2 overs, but Rinku Singh was determined to give KKR its first win of the season. In the 19th over, Anukul hit Joffra Archer for a tremendous six. 12 runs came in this over, after which Kolkata had to score 9 runs in the last over. Earlier, Brijesh Sharma, who bowled tightly in the 18th over, could not defend 9 runs in the last over.

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KKR vs rr highlights IPL 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Rajasthan Royals by 1 run in a thrilling match. In this match, Kolkata had scored 206 runs while playing first, in response to which Rajasthan could only manage 205 runs in the scheduled 20 overs. In this clash, Ryan Parag scored an innings of 95 runs, but could not ensure his team’s victory. With this, KKR has kept his playoff hopes alive.

Rajasthan Royals had a target of 207 runs, in response to which the team started very poorly. 14 -year -old Vaibhav Suryavanshi only 4 runs and Kunal Singh Rathore, who made his IPL debut, could not even open an account in his first match. Rajasthan had fallen 2 wickets on the score of 8. Yashasvi Jaiswal definitely got the beginning but was dismissed by 34 runs in 21 balls.

Dhruv Jurael and Vanindu Hasranga also could not do anything special in batting and half the team was dismissed for 71 runs. But Ryan Parag held one end, who played a century of 107 runs in 49 balls. He got a 92 -run partnership with Shimron Hetmyer to return to Rajasthan. Hetmyer was dismissed for 29 runs off 23 balls.

Ryan Parag’s hard work waste

Ryan Parag completed the fifty in 27 balls in this match and during this time he scored 32 runs in an over with Hetmyer. He scored 95 runs in 45 balls in the match, during which he hit 6 fours and 8 sixes. RR’s victory was almost confirmed, but in the 18th over, Harshit Rana got him out on a score of 95 and made him come back to KKR’s match.

33 runs were needed in the last 2 overs

Rajasthan Royals had to score 33 runs to win in the last 2 overs and due to the dismissal of Ryan Parag, Rajasthan’s difficulties started increasing. In the 19th over, Andre Russell conceded 11 runs, from which the last 6 balls had a target of 22 runs in front of RR. On the last ball, Rajasthan had to score 3 runs to win, but Rajasthan only run away.

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Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: 2 big matches will be played today in IPL 2025. The first match is between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. This match will be played at Eden Gardens. In order to keep the playoff hopes alive, KKR will win today, while Rajasthan Royals have already been out of the playoff race.

This season KKR has played 10 matches so far. During this time, the team won four matches and lost five matches. Kolkata’s team would now like to win all their remaining matches. At the same time, this season has no less than a terrible dream for Rajasthan. The team has been able to win only 3 matches in 11 matches so far.

Thorn collision in head to head

There is a thorn in the head to head between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. KKR has defeated Rajasthan 15 times in IPL so far. At the same time, Rajasthan has also defeated Kolkata 14 times. Both teams have clashed in Guwahati this season. Then KKR easily won the match.

Pitch report

The pitch of Eden Gardens, Kolkata, is suitable for batsmen. High scoring matches are often seen here. The bowlers are beaten up a lot here. Even today a high scoring match can be seen. The team winning the toss can choose the batting first.

Potential playing XI of Kolkata Knight Riders- Sunil Naren, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Rowman Powell, Suppiet Roy, Harshit Rana and Vaibhav Arora

Impact Player- Varun Chakraborty

Rajasthan Royals’ potential playing XI- Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Nitish Rana, Ryan Parag (Captain), Shubham Dubey, Dhruv Jurlel (wicketkeeper), Shimran Hetmyer, Jofra Archer, Mahesh Thakkhana, Fazalhak Farooqui and Kumar Kartikeya

Impact Player- Akash Madhwal