The 47th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. They will be locking horns with each other for the second time this season, and in the reverse clash, RR won a close match by 7 runs despite scoring 217 runs.
They have witnessed a contrasting season of IPL 2022 so far, despite the fact that both the teams have won 9 games, KKR has managed to find victories in 3 games, and RR has managed to register 6 matches. Kolkata Knight Riders played their last game against Delhi Capitals where Delhi Capitals beat them by 4 wickets. Shreyas Iyer and Nitish Rana smashed 42 runs and 57 runs respectively for Kolkata Knight Riders in that game.
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On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals played their last game against Mumbai Indians where MI registered a comfortable win by 5 wickets. Jos Buttler managed to score 67 runs for Rajasthan Royals in that game. The two old rivals have locked horns with each other 26 times in IPL so far and it is KKR that has enjoyed the fair share of success against RR with 13 wins.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Yuzvendra Chahal has been taking wickets at an average of 13.68. In their previous encounter, McCullum lamented that his batters failed to play out the leg-spinner and made silly mistakes. The matchup that works against Chahal is one with Andre Russell. The batter strikes them at 216.22, averages 80 against Chahal and has made 80 runs in the 37 balls he’s faced from Chahal.
Probable XI: Aaron Finch, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Baba Indrajith (wk), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
In the reverse clash between these two sides, despite picking up a wicket with no runs on the board, RR were put under pressure with Aaron Finch and Shreyas making a partnership of 107 runs for the second wicket. The ouns will be on Boult, Krishna and Sen to ensure they bag early wickets and keep the KKR batting unit under pressure.
Probable XI: Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Daryl Mitchell, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Sen
Fantasy XI Suggestion 1:
Jos Buttler (c), Shreyas Iyer (vc), Shimron Hetmyer, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Pat Cummins, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna
Fantasy XI Suggestion 2:
Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell (c), Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal (vc), Kuldeep Sen
