Kolkata Knight Riders will look to bring their campaign back on track after a hat-trick of defeats when they face a struggling Rajasthan Ro...
Kolkata Knight Riders will look to bring their campaign back on track after a hat-trick of defeats when they face a struggling Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League clash at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.
KKR, led by England’s World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan, have so far failed to come together as a unit and slipped to sixth in the table after starting the tournament on a high against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Facing bottom-placed Rajasthan Royals, who have lost their last two matches, KKR will be desperate for a turnaround.
Head-to-head
| Mat | RR wins | KKR wins |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 10 | 12 |
The rise of Pat Cummins as a batsman in their 18-run defeat to CSK will provide a big boost but it can’t paper over the failure of their top-order batsmen, who have failed to fire as a unit. The seamers too have leaked runs in the death overs.
Having struggled on Chepauk’s slow surfaces, KKR had hoped to return to winning ways at the Wankhede but Faf du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad took their attack to the cleaners and amassed a massive 220/3 in their previous match.
If that was not all, theirtop-order collapsed inside the powerplay.
Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik then revived the chase before Cummins produced some sensational powerhitting, slamming a 34-ball...
