Kolkata Knight Riders Beat Rajasthan Royals: On Wednesday, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Rajasthan Royals by 8 wickets to register their first win of the season. While Rajasthan lost the second consecutive match. KKR stopped Rajasthan Royals for 151 runs with the bowlers’ brilliant performance. Chasing the target, Quinton Dickock played an unbeaten innings of 97 runs. KKR achieved the target with 15 balls.

Chasing 152 runs, Moin Ali started the innings with Quinton Dickock. Ali was playing the first match for KKR today, he was run out after scoring just 5 runs. Captain Ajinkya Rahane also fell victim to Vanindu Hasranga after scoring 18 runs in 15 balls. However, at the other end, Dickock played good shots and did not let the pressure come on the team. When Rahane was out, KKR’s score was 70 runs in 10.1 overs.

Quinton Dickock played match winning innings

After Rahane’s dismissal, Angrikish Raghuvanshi supported the decock as an impact player and stayed till the end. Both of them pronounced the innings forward and gave the team victory. Quinton Dickock won the team by hitting a six off the third ball of the 18th over. However, he remained 3 runs away from his century. He scored an unbeaten 97 in 61 balls. In this innings, he hit 6 sixes and 8 fours.

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No bowler of Rajasthan Royals could leave a special impact, Ryan himself came to bowl in Parag Powerplay. A total of 7 players of the team bowled but only 1 wicket was named after Hasranga.

KKR reached number six in the points table

After winning against Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders have reached number six in the IPL points table. It has 2 points in 2 matches and the team’s net run rate is -0.308.

Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Rajasthan Royals were able to score just 151 runs in 20 overs due to the brilliant bowling of Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR spinners harassed Rajasthan batsmen in the entire match. Kolkata needs 152 runs to win.

Batting first, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson started the Rajasthan Royals innings. Both of them started a strange start. On the fifth dirt of the fourth over, Vaibhav Arora bowled Sanju and took the first wicket of the match. Sanju added 33 runs for the first wicket with Jaiswal. After this, Ryan Parag also started a rage, but he could not enlarge his innings. Varun Chakraborty caught him out. Parag scored 25 runs in 15 balls with the help of 3 sixes. After this, Moin Ali took his debut wicket for KKR as Yashasvi Jaiswal, who was dismissed for 29 runs in 24 balls.

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Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: IPL match number 6 is being played between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders in Guwahati’s ACA Stadium (Assam Cricket Association Stadium). Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane has decided to bowl first after winning the toss. Moin Ali is making her debut for the KKR team today. Rajasthan Royals have also made a change in their playing 11.

English player Moin Ali is debuting for Kolkata Knight Riders today. The 37 -year -old all -rounder has previously played for CSK in the IPL. Moin Sunil has been included in Playing 11 in place of Naren. Captain Rahane said that he is not feeling well, so he is not playing. Rajasthan Royals have included Vanindu Hasranga in playing 11. This is Hasranga’s first IPL match for Rajasthan.

Kolkata Knight Riders playing 11

Quinton de Kock, Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Moin Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty.

Rajasthan Royals playing 11

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurael, Shimron Hetmire, Vanindu Hasranga, Jofra Archer, Mahesh Thikshana, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma.

Both teams need first win

Both Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders lost their previous matches. Whoever wins in this match will be his first win of IPL 2025, while the losing team will lose the second consecutive match. After winning the toss, Ajinkya Rahane decided to bowl first. He said that dew will have a lot of impact here.

RR and KKR’s condition in points table

Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals are at the bottom of the points table. KKR and Rajasthan are ranked 9th and 10th respectively. Kolkata was defeated by Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first match while Rajasthan was defeated by Sunrisers Hyderabad.