Kolkata Knight Riders will face Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens, Kolkata at 7:30 PM IST. Currently, Kolkata Knight Riders hold the second position on the points table with four wins out of five matches. Rajasthan Royals lead the table with five wins from six matches.

In their recent games, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Lucknow Super Giants, with Phil Salt scoring 89 runs. Rajasthan Royals secured a win against Punjab Kings, with Yashasvi Jaiswal contributing 39 runs.

In their history of 27 matches, Kolkata Knight Riders have won 14 times, while Rajasthan Royals have secured victory in 13 games.

Russell bowls. Powell hits a six off a length ball. A single to deep point. Buttler smashes a six off a slower ball. 17 runs off the over.

Narine returns to bowl. Buttler takes a single off the first ball. Narine seems to be struggling with cramps. Three runs from the over.

Varun Chakravarthy into the attack. Ashwin lobs one to midwicket for a single. Buttler misses the reverse sweep, appeals from Varun but umpire declines. Review taken. Impact is outside off, Buttler survives. Four!! Ashwin gets a thick edge on his shot, runs past third man for a boundary.

Harshit bowls. Parag hits a six over square leg and a four through the offside. A couple of singles. WICKET! Parag mistimes a shot, Russell catches him, sending him back.

Harshit Rana into the attack. Buttler gets a single to short midwicket. WICKET!! Samson mistimes his lofted shot straight to mid on. Big wicket! Riyan Parag in at 4. Four!! Edged but in the gap, runs to the boundary through third man.

Arora starts with a single for Buttler. Jaiswal hits a boundary over the bowler. Jaiswal reaches 50 IPL sixes. Almost caught by Chakravarthy! But the ball races for four. WICKET! Jaiswal edges to slip off a change in angle. Samson is at three.

Buttler joins RR as the impact sub, opening with Jaiswal. Vaibhav Arora is KKR's impact player. Starc starts with a wide. Yashasvi scores a single. Buttler also gets a single. Jaiswal hits two fours, one over cover and another through backward point.

Rinku Singh with his batting prowess powers KKR to 223/6 and this will require some batting charge from Rajasthan to gun down the total. We will be back in a few minutes!

Chahal is back into the attack and Narine gets to his highest T20 score by smashing the googly over long-off followed by a boundary straight down the ground. Incredible batting as Narine smacks another six and gets to his century in 49 balls.

Chahal is back into the attack and Narine gets to his highest T20 score by smashing the googly over long-off followed by a boundary straight down the ground. Incredible batting as Narine smacks another six and gets to his century in 49 balls.

Chahal uses a slider to trap the KKR captain LBW. Despite taking a review, the decision stands as the ball clearly hit the pads in line with the stumps.

Kuldeep Sen returns to bowl, conceding 16 runs in the final PowerPlay over. Narine hits his fifty, playing aggressively. However, Raghuvanshi gets out to Sen. Shreyas Iyer comes in and immediately hits a boundary.

Ashwin comes on to bowl, trying to outwit Raghuvanshi with his spin variations, but Narine manages to score a couple of boundaries. Rajasthan's fielding remains a concern as the 50-run partnership is reached.

Rajasthan Royals dominate the PowerPlay, while Narine struggles. Raghuvanshi, on the other hand, hits consecutive boundaries.

Avesh Khan tests Sunil Narire with a lovely bouncer but then the batsman takes the aerial route with a clean swing of the bat for a boundary.

Riyan Parag puts down a dolly and Salt was dropped. This was a poor, casual approach from Parag. Brilliant over from Boult and we need to wait and watch how much the drop catch will cost.

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Yuzvendra Chahal

Sanju Samson: We would like to bowl first. Might be better to chase on this. Very much excited to be back in Eden Gardens, there's a great vibe in the stadium. Jos and Ash are available for this game, so they are coming back.

Shreyas Iyer: Would have loved to bowl as well based on the last game, on how the ball moved around. Whenever he (Narine) comes in, he is hard to read and he's got that poker face all throughout, we want him to perform him the way he has. We are playing the same team

Rajasthan Royals Squad: Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Tanush Kotian, Keshav Maharaj, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shubham Dubey, Navdeep Saini, Abid Mushtaq, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jos Buttler, Sandeep Sharma, Nandre Burger, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Singh Rathore

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Allah Ghazanfar, Sakib Hussain, Sherfane Rutherford, Chetan Sakariya, Nitish Rana, Srikar Bharat, Dushmantha Chameera

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Source : DNA India