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IPL 2024: Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders – Dafanews Match Preview

Rajasthan Royals will square off against the table-toppers Kolkata Knight Riders in the 70th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati on Sunday. When these two teams met earlier in the season, RR won a thrilling contest by two wickets. Jos Buttler had scored a majestic knock of 107 runs off just 60 balls in the run-chase of 224 but the inaugural champions will not have the Englishman’s services for the rest of the season.

Similarly, KKR will miss the services of Phil Salt, who has given blistering starts along with Sunil Narine at the top of the order. 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: NR W W W W

KKR have been on a roll and they will look to continue the good show. They have adopted an aggressive batting technique, which has helped them reap rewards. Moreover, the youngsters like Harshit Rana and Vaibhav Arora have done well with the ball.

Rajasthan Royals: L L L L W

While RR was ticking everything as a unit in the first phase of the tournament, they have looked like a different team in the last four games. They certainly need to come out all guns blazing and get back to winning ways before the playoffs.

Head to Head: Matches: 29, Won by KKR: 14, Won by RR: 14, Abandoned: 1.

Players to watch out for: Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, and Sunil Narine will hold the key for KKR.

Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, 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.

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