Kolkata Knight Riders will square off against table-toppers Rajasthan Royals at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Tuesday. Both of these two teams have ticked the right boxes and they will be aiming to continue the good show.
KKR has won four out of the five matches and won their previous game against LSG. On the other hand, RR has won five out of their six games and they won their last match against Punjab Kings.
Thus, they will be looking to continue the winning impetus. KKR has won both of their home games and they will look to make the most of the known conditions.
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Venkatesh Iyer needs four more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the IPL. The left-hander also requires nine more fours to complete 100 boundaries in the tournament.
Rinku Singh needs nine more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the tournament.
Shreyas Iyer needs two fours to complete 250 boundaries in the IPL. The right-hander needs 95 runs to reach the 3000-run mark in the tournament.
Yashasvi Jaiswal needs one more six to complete 50 sixes in the tournament.
Sanju Samson needs seven sixes to complete 200 maximums in the IPL.
Yuzvendra Chahal needs two more wickets to reach 200 wickets in the IPL and he will become the first bowler to reach the milestone.
Riyan Parag needs five more sixes to complete 50 maximums in the tournament.
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.
