KKR vs RR: Rahane's Kolkata vs Samson's Rajasthan.

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In the sixth match of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, Rajasthan’s team Samson will face Rahane’s team Kolkata at 7:30 pm at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati, Rajasthan’s second home ground.
This will be Rajasthan’s first match in Guwahati this season. Both the teams are looking for their first win in this IPL. While Kolkata’s team had to face defeat by 7 wickets at the hands of Kohli’s team Bangalore, Samson’s team Rajasthan had to face defeat by 44 runs at the hands of Cummins’s team Hyderabad.

Match Details
Sixth Match RR vs KKR
Date: March 26
Stadium: Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati Time: Toss- 7:00 PM
Match Start- 7:30 PM

Rajasthan’s batting is strong

There seems to be little possibility of change in Rajasthan in today’s match. Although in the last match, Hyderabad’s team had scored a huge score of 286 against Rajasthan, but in reply, Rajasthan’s team also scored 242 runs.
Coming in as an impact player, Sanju Samson hit a magnificent half-century and he was well supported by wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel who also hit a superb half-century.
In the finishing, Hetmyer and Shubham Dubey played fiery innings and took the team to 242. Rajasthan bowlers could not show anything special but in today’s match, it is expected that Rajasthan team will not think of making any changes.

Talking about Kolkata, they have their captain Rahane who scored a half-century against Bangalore and Sunil Narine who played a fiery innings of 44 runs supporting Rahane. Even in the final, there are batsmen till number 7 who can turn the game in their favour at any time.
Kolkata bowlers also bowled well against Bangalore in the last match. They have bowlers like Narine, Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana who strengthen the team.

If we talk about head to head of both the teams, then both the teams are currently at par. So far, both the teams have played a total of 30 matches in which Rajasthan has won 14 and Kolkata has won 14. 1 match between the two was inconclusive and one was cancelled due to rain.

The pitch of Guwahati is mostly a batting friendly pitch. Batting gets more help on this pitch and mostly high scoring matches are seen here.
So far in IPL, 4 matches have been seen here where the team batting first has won in 2 matches and the team chasing has won in 1 match. One match was inconclusive. The highest team score on this pitch is 199/4, which Rajasthan made against Delhi Capitals in the 2023 season.

There will be hot weather in Guwahati on the day of the match. There is no chance of rain. The temperature here on Wednesday can also remain between 21 to 36 degrees Celsius.

Rajasthan Royals: Riyan Parag (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Shimron Hetmyer, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Shubham Dubey, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma and Sanju Samson (impact player).

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Anrique Norkia, Varun Chakravarthy and Vaibhav Arora (Impact Player).