Second-placed Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns against table-toppers Rajasthan Royals at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Tuesday. KKR and RR have ticked the right boxes so far in the tournament and both of them will be looking to continue the good show.
We take a look at the head-to-head battle, players to watch out for, and squads of both teams in our match preview.
Kolkata Knight Riders: W L W W W
KKR registered a convincing eight-wicket win against Lucknow Super Giants in the last game. Phillip Salt scored a match-winning knock of 89 runs whereas Mitchell Starc bagged three wickets to return to form.
Rajasthan Royals: W L W W W
Rajasthan Royals was able to get over the line in the last game against Punjab Kings by three wickets. Avesh Khan and Keshav Maharaj bagged two wickets each but RR batters could not convert their starts into substantial scores.
Head to Head: Matches: 28, Won by KKR: 14, Won by RR: 13, Abandoned: 1.
Players to watch out for: Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, and Sunil Narine will hold the key for KKR.
Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult and Yuzvendra Chahal will hold the key for RR.
KKR Squad: Shreyas Iyer, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (AFG), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford (WI), Manish Pandey, Andre Russell (WI), Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine (WI), Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Dushmantha Chameera (SL), Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (AFG).
RR SQUAD FOR IPL 2024
Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger.
