Winless in their opening encounters in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) will be aiming to get their first points of the season in Guwahati on Wednesday. While KKR lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in the tournament opener, Rajasthan Royals were blown away by dominating Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Notably, once again Sanju Samson will be playing as a pure batter as he is still fully recovered. Riyan Parag will be leading the side in his absence. Sanju Samson will be playing as an Impact Player. For KKR, Vaibhav Arora is expected to come as an Impact Player once again.
RR vs KKR IPL 2025 predicted playing XIs
Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag(c), Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurel(wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Jofra Archer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Akash Madhwal.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock (w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Spencer Johnson, Varun Chakaravarthy.
RR vs KKR IPL head-to-head IPL stats
Both the team have played 30 times in IPL with Rajasthan Royals and KKR winning 14 games each. A couple of matches ended in no result with Rajasthan Royals winning on both occasions in Super Overs.
RR vs KKR in IPL 2025 points table
Both the Rajasthan Royals and the Kolkata Knight Riders are currently in the bottom half of the IPL 2025 points table. While KKR are seventh with a net run rate of -2.137. Rajasthan Royals are eighth with a net run rate of -2.200.
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