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The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a special day for Defending Champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the 2025 season. Both these teams will be face to face with each other. This is the second match of these two in this season. Both teams have lost their first match.

In such a situation, the account of victory of either of both Kolkata or Rajasthan is sure to open. This match will start at 7.30 pm in Guwahati. Knight Riders had to face a 7 -wicket defeat to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the opening match of the tournament, while Rajasthan was defeated by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) of 44 runs.

Both teams looked weak in batting

In both these matches, Knight Riders and Rajasthan team failed to show aggression in both batting and bowling departments. Except Sunil Naren, no bowler of Knight Riders could curb RCB batsmen.

Before this match, it will be a matter of concern for him not to leave his influence of spinner Varun Chakraborty in good form. Phil Salat and Virat Kohli easily scored runs against Chakraborty on the Eden Gardens pitch. The team of Knight Riders will be hopeful that this spinner will be successful in returning to Guwahati.

Knight Riders will also be eyeing the fitness of Enrich Norcia, who are recovering from back tightness. If this fast bowler from South Africa is declared fit, he can be included in the playing XI instead of Spencer Johnson.

The middle order of Knight Riders was shattered after captain Ajinkya Rahane and Naren were dismissed in the last match. Venkatansh Iyer and Andre Russell were dismissed by playing wrong shots. The team management will now expect that he will be cautious in shot selection.

Rajasthan’s bowling was very weak

Apart from this, Knight Riders will also expect Rinku Singh to perform well. This aggressive batsman scored 11, 9, 8, 30, 9 in the last five innings in T20 International cricket. He was able to score only 12 runs in the first match of IPL.

If the Rajasthan team has to return, then its bowlers will have to perform well. In the last match against Sunrisers, his main fast bowler Jofra Archer scored 76 runs in four overs, while Fazal Haq Farooqui and Mahesh Thakkhana could not curb the batsmen.

All of them will have a chance to return to Guwahati. Rajasthan’s caretaker captain Ryan Parag will also be examined here as he appeared in a state of confusion by making some decisions in the first match.

H2H between Rajasthan-Kolkata

There has always been an exciting battle between KKR and Rajasthan teams. A total of 30 IPL matches have been played between the two teams so far, in which both teams have won 14-14 matches. 2 matches were inconclusive. Rajasthan has won 3 in the last 4 matches. Was a disinterest.

Total Match: 30
Kolkata won: 14
Rajasthan won: 14
Benatija: 2

In this season, the squads of both are as follows-

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rinku Singh, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Lavaniti Sisodia, Venkatesh Iyer, Adhikar Roy, Moin Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Rasel, Enrik Norcia, Vaibhav Arora, Andrekia, Vaibhav Arora, Maya John Johnson, Naren, Varun Chakraborty, Chetan Sakaria.

Rajasthan Royals: Ryan Parag (Temporary Captain), Sanju Samson, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kunal Rathore, Shimron Hetmire, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurlel, Nitish Rana, Yudhveer Singh, Jofra Archer, Mahesh Pratisana, Vanindu Hasranga, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartike Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Queni Mafaka, Ashok Sharma, Sandeep Sharma.