KKR vs RR IPL 2023 Highlights: Rajasthan Royals win by 9 wickets

Rajasthan Royals win by 9 wickets and climb to the 3rd position of the Points table. 

RR inch closer towards victory in a one sided game.

Jaiswal 88 (40) and Samson 40 (25) are unstoppable and helping their team to get a decent run-rate.

Yashasvi Jaiswal smashed fastest 50 in IPL history off just 13 balls to guide his team closer to win. Interestingly, this is also the highest total registered in Powerplay at the Eden Gardens.

Russell successfully hits the stumps as Jos Buttler gets out due to miscommunication with Jaiswal.

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Yashasvi Jaiswal looks unstoppable as he hammers 26 runs in the 1st over bowled by Nitish Rana.

Rajasthan Royals need 150 runs to win

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1 over to go. KKR batters need to do something exceptional to turn the tables. Will they be able to do it?

Rinku Singh gets out at the crucial time of the game, Rajasthan Royals dominate.

KKR 131/6 (17 overs), the momentum is on RR's side, Will Rinku Singh turn the tables?

Chahal becomes the Purple cap holder as he picks his 3rd wicket.

Chahal scalps his 2nd wicket of the match as he dismisses in-form Venkatesh Iyer 57 (42). KKR 127/5 (16.1 over)

KKR are 110/4. Venkatesh Iyer and Rinku SIngh are in action. What will be the target for RR?

Andre Russell gets dismissed by Asif. Will this be a game-changing over?

Chahal took his 184th wicket in the IPL and became the highest-wicket taker in the IPL history.

Yuzvendra Chahal dismisses Nitish Rana 22 (17). KKR 3 down

Venkatesh Iyer 24 (24) and Nitish Rana 22 (16) have stabilized the innings. They will want to guide their team to a decent total.

• DC vs KKR (April 20) - 35 runs
• KKR vs RR (Today, May 11) - 37 runs
• KKR vs CSK (April 23) - 38 runs
• GT vs KKR (April 9) - 43 runs
• PBKS vs KKR (April 1) - 46 runs

Kolkata batters are struggling to score runs. This is their second lowest score in the first 6 overs in IPL 2023.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz 18 (12) goes back to hut. KKR lose their second wicket in the Powerplay.

KKR lose early wicket as Trent Boult dismisses Jason Roy 10 (8). Shimron Hetmyer takes a brilliant catch.

Kolkata Knight Riders are 10/0 (2 overs). How much will they score in the Powerplay?

Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jason Roy begin KKR's innings as Trent Boult bowls the first over

• KKR: Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Arora, N Jagadeesan, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson
• RR: Donavon Ferreira, Devdutt Padikkal, Riyan Parag, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini

Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Joe Root, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, KM Asif, Yuzvendra Chahal

I think we're getting the type of pitches we want. We will have to play good cricket, take one game at a time and earn 2 points. One change for us - Anukul Roy replaces Vaibhav Arora. Looks like the pitch is dry, they haven't watered a lot, so we are playing that extra spinner and add some depth to the batting

We will bowl here first. Long tournament, need to change according to the strength and weaknesses. Couple of changes for us - Boult replaces Kuldeip Yadav, KM Asif replaced Murugan Ashwin. Root will bat at 4. It's a long tournament, we have had some tough games for the bowlers, the morale of the team is high, not easy to forget close losses, but we need to move on.

Rajasthan Royals win toss, opt to bowl. It's time for KKR to bat first.

KKR

• Position - 6th
• Points - 10
• Matches played - 11
• Matches won - 5
• Matches lost - 6
• NRR: -0.079

RR

• Position - 5th
• Points - 10
• Matches played - 11
• Matches won - 5
• Matches lost - 6
• NRR: 0.388

There is no forecast for rain in Kolkata during the same time. Temperature is likely to hover around 33 degree Celsius during game time and will decrease to 30 at the end of game time. There is a 0% of chance of rain during the match time.

The pitch at Kolkata's Eden Gardens has a batting-friendly surface in T20 cricket. The venue has the highest first innings average score in IPL this season with 205. The overall average first innings score here is 163 with teams batting second winning 47 of 82 IPL matches played here. 

• Matches played: 27
• Matches won by KKR: 14
• Matches won by RR: 12
• No result: 1

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Joe Root, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldip Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Adam Zampa, Riyan Parag, Jason Holder, Obed McCoy, Trent Boult, Navdeep Saini, Akash Vasisht, KC Cariappa, KM Asif, Kuldeep Sen, Donavon Ferreira, Abdul Basith, Kunal Singh Rathore

Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jason Roy, Anukul Roy, N Jagadeesan, Lockie Ferguson, Kulwant Khejroliya, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Mandeep Singh, Johnson Charles, David Wiese, Aarya Desai