IPL 2024 KKR vs RR Highlights: Jos Buttler leads Royals to victory in record chase

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson has won the toss and RR will field first. 

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: "There's a disparity of 12 metres square of the wicket - 59m and 71m; down the ground - 75m. Expect the bowlers to be defending on the bigger side. We've seen some contrasting matches here so far - 208 narrowly defended, 161 quite easily chased. I think it (pitch) is pretty similar to what we saw the other day. We thought 190 was par, that was a day game, this is a night game. There's going to be some dew, it's extremely humid out here as well. Both teams will be looking to chase. It's a really good surface. You've got a lightning fast outfield, the boundaries are pretty consistent, nice even pitch, you want to bat at any stage. Maximise the new ball on a surface like this while it's rock hard."

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: In two games at Eden Gardens so far this season, Sunil Narine has an economy rate of 4.50 across eight overs, and hasn't conceded a single boundary. The other spinners in those games have gone for a combined 10.01 per over.

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: KKR may lead RR 6-3 in the head to head stats for the Eden Gardens but the latter have won their last two games at this ground. 

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: David Warner once tried batting right-handed to avoid the threat of facing R Ashwin. However, KKR's two left-handers have somehow been immune to his threats. Nitish Rana has hit him for 108 runs in 58 balls without being dismissed, while Sunil Narine has tonked him for 60 off 22 while being dismissed once.

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: KKR have done quite well with regards to scoring quick, except for their captain Shreyas Iyer. His 129 runs have come at 120.56.

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: If you thought SRH vs MI was a one-off, well poor you. Because you would have been thunderstruck by what happened yesterday in Bengaluru. A total of 549 runs was scored yesterday by the two teams. SRH rewrote their record for highest-ever IPL score that they had set during the match against MI by scoring 287/3. Travis Head smashed 102 in 41 balls while Heinrich Klaasen scored 67 off 31. Abdul Samad remained unbeaten on 37 off 10 and pushed SRH past the record. In reply, RCB managed to get within 25 runs of the improbable target. Virat Kohli smashed 42 in 20, Faf du Plessis scored 62 in 28 while Dinesh Karthik made a valiant 83 off 35. Batting was reduced to an excercise of swinging the bat relentlessly in this utterly absurd match. It was T20 cricket in its purest form.

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: Shimron Hetmyer has the most runs in death overs since IPL 2022, striking at 201.8. Among all the batters Who have faced 100-plus balls in this phase, his strike rate is bettered only by Tim David (213.14) and Dinesh Karthik (209.9).

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: There was just one game between these two sides and that was at the Eden Gardens last season. It didn't turn out to be much of a match but it was memorable for the way Yashasvi Jaiswal announced himself. He was already having an extraordinary season but against KKR, Jaiswal put up a display of big-hitting that far surpassed anything he had done earlier that season. He raced to 50 in just 13 balls and then went on to stay unbeaten on 98 off 47 balls as KKR chased down a target of 150 in just 13.1 overs.

IPL 2024 KKR vs RR IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals: Among the weapons in RR's almighty bowling lineup is Chahal's mastery in the middle overs. In the six innings that he has bowled in this season, Chahal has taken nine wickets at an average of 15.6 and has an economy of 7.4.