Mumbai: Rajasthan has won the toss and have elected to field first. Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals will be hoping to return to winning ways in the fifth round of the IPL. Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals have lost their last two matches as KKR reached Wankhede after three losses on a bounce. KKR and Royals are also the bottom two on the points table. After four rounds, both teams had only one victory.
The season started for KKR with a win led by Eoin Morgan. KKR won by 10 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad. But KKR lost the next three games. They lost to Mumbai Indians by 10 runs, Royal Challengers Bangalore by 38 runs and Chennai Super Kings by 18 runs.
However, Sanju, who is making his captaincy debut this season, managed to lead Rajasthan to victory in just one match so far. Sanju and his team started with a four-run defeat to the Punjab Kings. But in the second match, Rajasthan came back strong, beating the mighty Delhi Capitals by three wickets. But they were unable to maintain this superiority in subsequent matches. They lost to Chennai Super Kings by 45 runs and Royal Challengers Bangalore by 10 wickets.
Apart from scoring a century in the first match against Punjab, Sanju has disappointed with his batting in the last three matches. His attempt will be to make up for this rough patch against KKR.
Rajasthan has 2 changes to the team that played last match as Unadkat comes back for Gopal and Jaiswal for Vohra. And for KKR there is one change as Mavi comes in for Nagarkoti.
Playing XI
RR: Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (capt&wk), David Miller, Shivam Dube, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Jaydev Unadkat, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman
KKR: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (capt), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna
