Rajasthan Royals (RR) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Match Highlights, IPL 2025: The sixth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season was played on Wednesday (26 March) between the defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR). KKR won this match by 8 wickets at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati.
Along with this, the KKR team captained by Ajinkya Rahane has opened the victory account in this IPL season. This was the second match of the team. In the first match, he had to defeat by 7 wickets to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
At the same time, this is the second consecutive defeat of Rajasthan team in this season. He played his first match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), with a crushing defeat of 44 runs. Let us know that in the first three matches, the Rajasthan team’s command of Sanju Samson is in the hands of Ryan Parag.
Dickock scored an unbeaten match winning 97 runs
Batting first after losing the toss in the match, the Rajasthan team set a target of 152 runs. In response, KKR lost 2 wickets and scored 153 runs in 17.3 overs and won the match. In the match, KKR opener Quinton Dickock completed the fifty in 36 balls.
After this, Dickock scored an unbeaten 97 by playing 61 balls in the match. During this, 6 sixes and 8 fours. Captain Rahane scored 18 runs. While impact player Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored an unbeaten 22 runs. The bowlers could not leave their mark for Rajasthan. Only Vanindu Hasranga got 1 success.
Kolkata team scorecard: (153/2, 17.3 overs)
| Batsman | Bowler | Score | Wicket collapse | |
| Moin Ali | Runut | —- | 5 | 1-41 |
| Ajinkya Rahane | Catch- Deshpande | Vanindu Hasanga | 18 | 2-70 |
Rajasthan made this score by staggering
In the match, Rajasthan scored 151 runs after losing 9 wickets. For the team, wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Juril scored 33 runs off 28 balls. While Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 29 runs off 24 balls. Captain Ryan Parag scored 25 runs on 15 balls. Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Moin Ali and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets for the KKR team.
Rajasthan team scorecard: (151/9, 20 overs)
| Batsman | Bowler | Score | Wicket collapse | |
| Sanju Samson | Clean bold | Vaibhav Arora | 13 | 1-33 |
| Ryan Parag | Catch-dickock | Varun chakravarti | 25 | 2-67 |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | Catch- Harshit | Moin Ali | 29 | 3-69 |
| Vanindu Hasanga | Catch-Rahane | Varun chakravarti | 4 | 4-76 |
| Nitish rana | Clean bold | Moin Ali | 8 | 5-82 |
| Shubham Dubey | Catch-Russell | Vaibhav Arora | 9 | 6-110 |
| Dhruv jurael | Bold | Harshit Rana | 33 | 7-131 |
| Shimron Hetmyer | Catch- Raghuvanshi | Harshit Rana | 7 | 8-138 |
| Jofra Archer | Clean bold | Spencer Johnson | 16 | 9-149 |
1-1 changes in both teams
For this match, Rahane made a change in Kolkata’s playing-11. Sunil Naren’s health is bad. Moin Ali’s entry was replaced by him. On the other hand, Rajasthan captain Ryan Parag also made a change. Vanindu Hasranga entered the place of Fazalhak Farooqui.
H2H between Rajasthan-Kolkata
There has always been an exciting battle between KKR and Rajasthan teams. A total of 31 IPL matches have been played between the two teams so far, in which KKR has won 15 and Rajasthan has won 14 matches. 2 matches were inconclusive.
Total Match: 31
Kolkata won: 15
Rajasthan won: 14
Benatija: 2
Both teams playing-11 in the match
Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Ryan Parag (Captain), Dhruv Jurael (wicketkeeper), Shimron Hetmyer, Vanindu Hasarga, Jofra Archer, Mahesh Tuppan, Tushar Deshpande and Sandeep Sharma.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rinku Singh, Moin Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty.