The hosts would be arriving with a boost of confidence, having beaten the Lucknow Super Giants by eight wickets and 26 deliveries to spare just a couple of days before they take on the incumbent table-toppers.

Meanwhile, RR had to go through a nail-biter of a contest against the Punjab Kings, which ended up with them defeating the latter by three wickets with just the unitary delivery to spare.

Checkall the details given below regarding the match:-

KKR vs RR MatchDetails

Match:KKR vs RR, Match 31, IPL 2024

Captains:
Sanju Samson is going to lead Rajasthan Royals

Shreyas Iyer will lead Kolkata Knight Riders

When: April 16th 2024, Tuesday

Match is going to start at 07:30 p.m.

Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Head to head of these two teams: Both teams have played28 matchesagainst each other. Out of which Kolkata Knight Riders has won 14matches and Rajasthan Royals has won 13matches with one match ended up in no result.

Likely playing XI

Kolkata Knight Riders

Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, VenkateshIyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (c), Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, HarshitRana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy

Impact Substitute: Rinku Singh

Bench : KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Manish Pandey, N Rana, Sakib Hussain, AS Roy, Sherfane Rutherford, Vaibhav Arora, C Sakariya, D Chameera, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Suyash Sharma, Allah Mohammad

Rajasthan Royals

Yashasvi Jaiswal, TanushKotian, Sanju Samson (c &wk), Riyan Parag, ShimronHetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, KeshavMaharaj, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal

Impact substitute - Kuldeep Sen

Bench : Kunal Singh Rathore, Jos Buttler, D Ferreira, Ravichandran Ashwin, T Kohler-Cadmore, Shubham Dubey, NA Saini, N Burger, Sandeep Sharma, Abid Mushtaq, KR Sen

Pitch report

Eden Gardens has hosted a total of 84 IPL matches to date, with teams batting second emerging victorious in 50 of those encounters. Out of the 84 IPL matches hosted at Eden Gardens, the Kolkata Knight Riders have played 79, winning 47 of them, with 26 victories achieved while batting second. KKR have played nine matches against RR here so far, won six and lost two of those. The Rajasthan Royals have played ten matches in Kolkata so far and lost eight of those.

Best players from both of the teams

Best Batsman:Rinku Singh

Best Bowler:Yuzvendra Chahal

Weather forecast for today in Kolkata

Maximum temperature: 33°C
Minimum temperature: 25°C
Wind speed: 13km/h
Chances of rain: 0%
Capacity of stadium:68, 000
Prediction to win: Kolkata Knight Riders is most likely to win the match

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