Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders Match Scorecard – KKR vs RR
Quinton de Kock played a valuable role in KKR’s victory. Quinton de Kock hit a brilliant half-century. This is Kolkata Knight Riders’ first win of IPL 2025. Earlier, KKR had lost the first match. Rajasthan Royals, batting first in yesterday’s match, scored 151 runs for 9 wickets. Wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel scored 33 runs for Rajasthan Royals and captain Riyan Parag returned to the pavilion after scoring 33 runs. RR opener Yashasvi Jaiswal contributed 29 runs. Bowlers like Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Moeen Ali and Varun Chakraborty from the KKR team took two wickets each.
After the brilliant performance of the bowlers of the KKR team, it was the turn of the batsmen, out of which Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Rajasthan Royals by 8 wickets on the basis of the explosive innings of team star player Quinton de Kock. This is KKR’s first win in 2 matches of this season of IPL, on the other hand, Rajasthan lost the second consecutive match. The Kolkata Knight Riders team, captained by Ajinkya Rahane, chasing the target of 152 runs set by Rajasthan Royals, scored 153 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 17.3 overs. Quinton de Kock played an important role in the victory of Kolkata Knight Riders. De Kock played a brilliant half-century innings. He gave KKR the victory by hitting a six.
In yesterday’s krr vs rr match, Quinton de Kock scored an unbeaten 97 off 61 balls with the help of 8 fours and 6 sixes while Angkrish Raghuvanshi contributed 22 runs. KKR did not have a good start in IPL 2025 and Moeen Ali was included in place of Sunil Narine but he was dismissed after scoring 5 runs. After this, captain Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed after scoring 18 runs off 15 balls.
Varun Chakraborty and Moeen Ali performed brilliantly
Earlier, KKR’s spin duo of Varun Chakraborty and Moeen Ali performed brilliantly and stopped Rajasthan Royals at a paltry score of 151 for 9. Moeen Ali got a chance to make his debut for KKR in this match due to the ill health of the team’s expert Sunil Narayan. He gave a good support to Varun Chakraborty by taking two wickets for 23 runs in four overs, both of them together made a splash. Who took two wickets for just 17 runs.
According to Baraspara pitch report of yesterday’s match
The bowlers’ ball was coming at a halt. And after being invited to bat first, Rajasthan batsmen struggled to get going on their home ground. Varun Chakravarthy and Moeen Ali destroyed the middle order of Rajasthan Royals by taking two wickets each in consecutive overs immediately after the powerplay. Fast bowler Vaibhav Arora (33/2) was expensive but he took two important wickets in yesterday’s match. Royals’ regular captain Sanju Samson (13 runs off 11 balls) was dismissed with a yorker in the powerplay.
Harshit Rana (36/2) bowled brilliantly in the last overs. Rana dismissed the dangerous Shimron Hetmyer for just seven runs after finishing Dhruv Jurel’s 28-ball innings. Jofra Archer played a quick innings of 16 runs off seven balls. With which the team reached the 150-run mark. He fell prey to Spencer Johnson (42/1) in the last over. Rajasthan’s team did not look in a good position after scoring 54 runs for one wicket after the powerplay. At this time, Ryan was present at the crease with Jaiswal. Acting captain Ryan showed his skill by hitting sixes against Harshit and Vaibhav.
Jaiswal ended the power play by hitting a six after getting a life on 19 runs. This England all-rounder continued his influence and dismissed Wanindu Hasaranga (four), who was sent to bat at number five. After losing 4 wickets for 15 runs, Rajasthan Royals’ innings could not gain momentum and the team failed to score a big score.
