Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns against Rajasthan Royals in a paramount IPL 2026 clash on Sunday (April 19) at the Eden Gardens.
The Knight Riders are on the brink of elimination as they need eight wins in their last eight matches to keep the playoff hopes alive. Currently sitting at the bottom, KKR face a formidable Royals, who have won four of their five matches and are placed 3rd in the table.
KKR vs RR Toss Result
Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag won the Toss and chose to Bat First.
KKR vs RR Predicted Playing 11
RR have chosen to go with two changes as Brijesh Sharma and Shimron Hetmyer have returned to the side. KKR are playing the same team from the last match.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR): Ajinkya Rahane (c), Tim Seifert (wk), Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil
Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kartik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy
Impact Player: Manish Pandey/Finn Allen/Angkrish Raghuvanshi.Navdeep Saini/Tejasvi Dahiya
Rajasthan Royals (RR): Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma, Ravi Bishnoi
Impact Player: Sandeep Sharma/Lhuan-dre Pretorius/Shubham Dubey/Ravi Singh/Yash Raj Punja
KKR and RR IPL 2026 Squads
Kolkata Knight Riders: Tim Seifert (wk), Ajinkya Rahane (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Kartik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Manish Pandey, Rahul Tripathi, Sarthak Ranjan, Rachin Ravindra, Prashant Solanki, Blessing Muzarabani, Saurabh Dubey, Matheesha Pathirana, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra
Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Riyan Parag (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Donovan Ferreira, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Ravi Bishnoi, Nandre Burger, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravi Singh, Shubham Dubey, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Dasun Shanaka, Kuldeep Sen, Sushant Mishra, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Kwena Maphaka, Vignesh Puthur, Aman Rao Perala
