IPL 2025 Match-53 : Kolkata vs Rajasthan pre-match views
IPLT20 2025 53rd Match between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals will be played on Sunday, May 04, 2025 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata 3:00 pm onwards.
Having well balanced team, Kolkata Knight Riders has won 3 times IPL title in 2012, 2014 and 2024 as well. Kolkata will try win this match. Knight Riders has good batsmen like : Rinku Singh, AM Rahane, Manish Pandey, Q de Kock and good bowlers like : Anrich Nortje, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakrawathy, Harshit Rana, Mayank Markande and Umran Malik along with good all-rounders like : Andre Russell, Moeen Ali, Venkatesh Iyer and Ramandeep Singh with good Indian capped and un-capped players to make best eleven to play.
Winner of First IPL season 2008 and 3rd position holder in IPL 2024, team Rajasthan Royals is always one of the most surprising team with good performances of young talented cricketers. Good combination of Foreign and Indian capped and uncapped players made Rajasthan very strong team in previous few seasons. Every player knew their responsibility and performed accordingly. Rajasthan have very good record playing at their home venue but, other location they struggled lot. This year in 2025 IPL RR needs to play with confidence at other venues to qualify for final. Royals have good quality batsmen like : Skipper Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel and good bowlers like : Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqi and Kwena Maphaka along with good all-rounders like : Riyan Parag, Nitish Rana and Yudhvir Charak with some Indian un-capped players to make best eleven to play.
| Head to Head | |
| Played : 30 | |
| Kolkata Won | Rajasthan won |
| 14 | 12 |
Rinku Singh's winning knock against Gujarat's Yash Dayal with five massive sixes in last over is un-forgettable. We have also witnessed AD Russell's power with big six hittings for Kolkata Knight Riders in previous seasons. Top order Q de Kock, Venkatesh Iyer and AM Rahane provides better batting line-up to KKR. World Class Sunil Narine with Varun Chakrawathy and Moeen Ali gives Kolkata huge strength in spin attack. Pace transforming bowlers Harshit Rana, Umran Malik and Anrich Nortje will raise power to Knight Riders for attacking attitude to hold IPL trophy once again in 2025 as well.
Rajasthan Royals, having good top order batting line-up with skipper Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel and Riyan Parag, expect good runs with quality batting and Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana and Fazalhaq Farooqi have to give commitment for best bowling performances to powered Royals for the strong contender of IPL 2025 title.
Looking at previous match data, Kolkata won 14 matches and Rajasthan won 14 matches out of 30 matches played in IPL history. Kolkata team holds nearly good winning records against Rajasthan in past statistics. In this match Kolkata has home ground advantage to do well. Just a finger cross and enjoy Kolkata vs Rajasthan match on match day. Team that perform better than opponent team will win and earn important 2 points in points tally of IPLT20 2025.
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