With an eye on the top two of the Indian Premier League 2024 standings, Rajasthan Royals will play their last group game against table-toppers Kolkata Knight Riders at the ACA Stadium in Guwahati on Sunday.

The RR vs KKR match on May 19 is scheduled to start at 7.30 PM IST. TheIPL 2024 fixture will be available to watch on live streaming for free in India.

The Royals were handed a five-wicket defeat by the Punjab Kings in their last match at Guwahati on Wednesday.

Homeboy Riyan Parag top-scored for the Royals with a 34-ball 48. With the ball, Avesh Khan picked up 2/28 and Yuzvendra Chahal finished with 2/31 as PBKS closed the game with seven balls remaining.

Meanwhile, the Knight Riders’ last match against Gujarat Titans at Ahmedabad on Monday, was called off due to rain.

Parag is the Royals’ top run-getter in IPL 2024 and fourth in the overall list with 531 runs from 13 matches, including four fifties. He averages 59.00 with a strike rate of 152.58 this year. Skipper Sanju Samson is the Royals’ next-best batter this season, having scored 504 runs from 13 games averaging 56.00 and striking at 156.52.

Chahal with 17 wickets from 13 matches is the Royals’ top wicket-taker this season. Avesh, after last match’s showing, is second on the Royals’ bowling chart, with 13 wickets from as many matches.

Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders standings

Rajasthan Royals are currently second in the IPL 2024 standings with 16 points and a net run rate of +0.273. The Royals have won eight out of their 13 matches so far this season.

If the Royals win the match, it will guarantee them the second spot in the table. The top two teams will play in Qualifier 1, the winner of which will directly make the final.

Meanwhile, Kolkata Knight Riders have played 13 games this season, winning nine matches and losing three with one game getting abandoned. KKR are on top of the IPL standings with 19 points and an NRR of +1.428.

RR vs KKR form in IPL

Coming into Sunday’s duel, Rajasthan Royals have won one of their last five matches in IPL 2024 whereas the Knight Riders have won four of their last five, with one game getting washed out due to rain.

Rajasthan Royals last five matches

Opponent

Venue

Result

Match Date

Margin

PBKS

Guwahati

Lost

May 15, 2024

5 wickets

CSK

Chennai

Lost

May 12, 2024

5 wickets

DC

Delhi

Lost

May 7, 2024

20 runs

SRH

Hyderabad

Lost

May 2, 2024

1 run

LSG

Lucknow

Won

April 27, 2024

7 wickets

Kolkata Knight Riders last five matches

Opponent

Venue

Result

Match Date

Margin

GT

Ahmedabad

No Result

May 13, 2024

-

MI

Kolkata

Won

May 11, 2024

18 runs

LSG

Lucknow

Won

May 5, 2024

98 runs

MI

Mumbai

Won

May 3, 2024

24 runs

DC

Kolkata

Won

April 29, 2024

7 wickets

In the RR vs KKR head-to-head, the two teams have played each other 29 times in the IPL with both the Royals and the Knight Riders winning 14 matches each with one game being abandoned.

In the latest encounter between the two sides in IPL 2024 at Eden Gardens last month, the Royals trumped the Knight Riders by two wickets.

Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders players

For a second consecutive match, Parag finished as the highest run-getter for the Royals. His measured innings against PBKS had six boundaries without any sixes and came at a strike rate of 141.17.

The 22-year-old Parag anchored the Royals innings and took them to a respectable position before getting dismissed in the last over. His good form with the bat augurs well for the Royals as they enter the most crucial phase of the tournament.

Ravichandran Ashwin came good with the bat once again during a crisis for the Royals. Coming in at 42/3, he provided the much-needed impetus to the Royals’ innings as he scored 28 runs off just 19 balls hitting three fours, which included an audacious reverse sweep, and a six.

Ashwin stitched his second fifty-run partnership in the tournament with Parag after coming in to bat before the halfway mark. In the first instance, he scored a 19-ball 29 against Delhi Capitals to help the team out from 36/3 to put up a winning total batting first.

The Royals showed a fight with the ball defending a below-par score. They kept things tight and picked up wickets at crucial junctures to take the game till the 19th over before falling short.

Avesh and Trent Boult were effective with the new ball in the powerplay as they reduced PBKS to 39/3. Avesh’s double strike in his first over put the Kings on the backfoot during the chase, before Chahal took over.

Chahal, high on confidence after his performance against Chennai, was at it again. The leg-spinner along with Ashwin restricted the run-flow conceding just 39 runs in their six overs after the powerplay.

Picking up two wickets against the Kings, Chahal went level with Siddarth Trivedi to be the Royals’ highest wicket-taker in the IPL. In only his third season with the Royals, he has reached 65 wickets in just 44 matches, 32 matches less than Trivedi.

Meanwhile, Sanju Samson has the most runs against the Knight Riders in the current Royals’ squad with 529 runs from 20 matches, including nine scores of 30 or above. On the bowling front, Chahal has 29 wickets in 22 matches against KKR, the highest wicket-taker in the current team with Ashwin picking up 24 scalps in 26 matches.

In the reverse fixture against KKR at Kolkata, the Royals registered a thrilling two-wicket win off the last ball, powered by Jos Buttler’s unbeaten century. Avesh and Kuldeep Sen had picked up two wickets with the ball.

Rajasthan Royals squad: Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Kunal Singh Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Donovan Ferreira, Abid Mushtaq, Avesh Khan, Trent Boult, Nandre Burger, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldeep Sen, Tanush Kotian, Keshav Maharaj

Kolkata Knight Riders squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), Srikar Bharat, Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ramandeep Singh, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford, Phil Salt, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Dushmantha Chameera, AM Ghazanfar, Harshit Rana, Chetan Sakariya, Sakib Hussain, Mitchell Starc, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakravarthy

Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders stats

  • 31: Sanju Samson is 1 win away from equalling most wins as RR captain
  • 50: Ravichandran Ashwin is 3 catches away from 50 catches in IPL
  • 50: Riyan Parag needs 1 catch for 50 catches in T20s
  • 66: Yuzvendra Chahal is 1 wicket away from being Rajasthan Royals’ highest wicket-taker in IPL
  • 100: Tom Kohler-Cadmore needs 1 catch for 100 catches in T20s
  • 300: Sanju Samson needs 3 sixes for 300 sixes in T20s
  • 1000: Donavon Ferreira needs 59 Runs for 1000 Runs in T20s
  • 4500: Sanju Samson needs 108 runs for 4500 runs in IPL

Where to watch Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders live

Live streaming of the Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders match will be available on the Jio Cinema App and website. The RR vs KKR match will be telecast live on the Star Sports Network TV channels in India. The match will start at 7.30 PM IST.

RR vs KKR Venue: ACA Stadium records

  • Highest team total: 199/4 by RR vs DC, 2023
  • Lowest team total: 142/9 by DC vs RR, 2023
  • Highest individual score: 86* by Shikhar Dhawan, PBKS vs RR, 2023
  • Best bowling figures: 4/30 by Nathan Ellis, PBKS vs RR, 2023
  • Highest partnership: 98 by Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler, first wicket, RR vs DC, 2023
  • Win rate batting first: 67% (2 Won; 1 Lost)
  • Average first innings score: 155
  • Average first innings winning score: 169