Eden Gardens surface here will be a balanced one with good help for pacers initially and batting will get easier as the game progresses. The average first innings score at this venue is 164 and teams batting second have won a majority of the matches. Both teams will prefer chasing considering the dew factor.
Ground- Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Pitch Behaviour- Batter Friendly
Best Suited- Pacers Important Role
Matches- 84
Average-159
Batting 1st Won- 34
Chasing Won- 50
Home Ground- Kolkata Knight Riders
This Venue: KKR- 46/79 | RR- 2/10
Batting 1st Team Won- 8/13
Pacers:- 92 Wickets (13 Match)
2nd Inn- 47W || 1st Inn- 45W
RAF-74W || LAF- 18W
Spinners:- 73 Wickets
2nd Inn- 36W || 1st Inn-37W
ROB- 27W LBS- 21W, LAC-2, LAO- 24W
Kolkata Knight Riders
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (C), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana
IMPACT PLAYER:-
Mandeep Singh (RHB)
Anukul Roy (LHB+LAO)
Suyash Sharma (RHB+LBS)
Vaibhav Arora (RAF-M)
Rajasthan Royals
Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (C) (WK), Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Jason Holder, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
IMPACT PLAYERS:-
Riyan Parag (RHB+ANY)
Kuldeep Sen (RAF)
Donovan Ferreira (RHB+ANY)
KM Asif (RAM)
Murugan Ashwin (LBS)
BENCH:-
Joe Root (RHB+ROB)
Adam Zampa (LBS)
Obed McCoy (LAF-M)
Wicket-Keeper
Rahmanullah Gurbaz- #
•Venue- 153 Runs (4 M)
1st- 57, 81
2nd- 0, 15
•Form- 15, 0, 81, 8, 0, 15, 57, 22, 18, 44, 16, 10, 33, 15, 25, 0
BATSMAN
Jason Roy- 60 Runs (1 M) 142SR
2nd- 60
•Venue- 100 Runs (4 M)
1st- 0
2nd- 1, 61, 38
•Form- 38, 20, 56, 61, 43, 6, 145*, 19, 132, 4, 5, 48, 14, 0, 27
Nitish Rana- 25 Avg (11 M) 202 Runs 118SR
1st Inn- 13 Avg (6 M) 80 Runs
2nd Inn- 61 Avg (4 M) 122 Runs
•Venue- 31 Avg (20 M) 618 Runs
1st Inn- 22 Avg (10 M) 204 Runs
2nd Inn- 45 Avg (10 M) 114 Runs
•Form- 51+1w, 42, 4, 48+0w, 27, 4+2w, 5, 75, 45, 1, 24 34+3w
Rinku Singh- 45 Runs (2 M)
1st- 3*
2nd- 42*
•Venue- 227 Runs (10 M)
1st- 3, 46, 19 2nd- 6, 16, 5, 58, 53, 21
•Form- 21, 46, 19, 18, 53, 6, 18, 58, 48*, 46, 4, 11, #, 3
All-Rounder
Venkatesh Iyer- 44 Runs (2 M) 124SR
1st- 38
2nd- 6
•Venue- 167 Runs (9 M)
1st- 20, 33, 35, 3, 11 2nd- 24, 10, 20, 11
•Form- 11, 7, 11, 31, 20, 0, 104, 10, 83, 3, 34, 28+0w, 42+0w
Andre Russell- 22 Avg (13 M) 177 Runs 167SR, 7W, 8.9EC, 18SR
1st Inn- 30 Avg (5 M) 121 Runs
2nd Inn- 14 Avg (5 M) 56 Runs
1st- 6w5m | 2nd- 1w2m | 3m- #
•Venue- 36 Avg (36 M) 788 Runs 32W
1st Inn- 35 Avg (18 M) 482 Runs
2nd Inn- 39 Avg (12 M) 306 Runs
1st- 16w16m | 2nd- 16w18m | 14m- #
•Form- 42°+0w, 24+1w, 34+1w, 1+2w, 9+0w, 38+0w, 21+0w
Sunil Narine- 142 Runs (17 M) 12W 7EC, 34SR
1st- 9w11m | 2nd- 3w8m | 9m- #
•Venue- 59W (50 M) 339 Runs
1st- 26w25m | 2nd- 33w25m | 16m- #
•Form- 0w, 1+0w, 1w, 0w, 0w+0, 4+0w, 2*+0w, 0+0w, 0+3w, 2w
BOWLER
Shardul Thakur- 10W (9 M) 11 Runs, 8EC, 20SR
1st- 2w3m | 2nd- 8w6m | 3m- #
•Venue- 5W (7 M) 82 Runs
1st- 2w3m | 2nd- 3w2m | 2m- #
•Form- #, 8+2w, 0, 13+1w, 0w+12, 0w+0, 1w+68, 0w+8*, 0w, 25+3w
Umesh Yadav- 10W (13 M) 8.9EC, 27SR
1st- 10w8m | 2nd- 0w5m | 8m- #
•Venue- 20W (27 M)
1st- 9w13m | 2nd- 11w14m | 15m- #
•Form- 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 2w
Varun Chakaravarthy- 7W (5 M) 6.7EC, 15SR
1st- 0w1m | 2nd- 7w4m | 1m- #
•Venue- 10W (6 M)
1st- 6w4m | 2nd- 4w2m | 1m- #
•Form- 3w, 1w, 0w, 3w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 4w, 1w, 3w, 1w, 1w, 0w
Harshit Rana- #
•Venue- 3W (2 M)
1st- 2w1m | 2nd- 1w1m | 0m- #
•Form- 2w, 1w, 1w, 0
BENCH:-
Suyash Sharma- #
•Venue- 5W (5 M)
1st- 2w3m | 2nd- 3w2m | 2m- #
•Form- 1w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 3w
Narayan Jagadeesan- 1 Runs (1 M)
1st- 1
•Venue- 293 Runs (7 M)
1st- 27, 19
2nd- 78, 61, 71, 36, 1
•Form- 19, 27, 1, 0, 36, 6, 8, 23, 277
Tim Southee- 2W (2 M) 10.3EC, 24SR
1st- 2w2m | 2nd- # | 1m- #
•Venue- 2W (3 M)
1st- 0w1m | 2nd- 2w2m | 2m- #
•Form- 0w, 2w, 3w, 2w, 15+1w, 1w
Wicket-Keeper
Sanju Samson- 28 Avg (18 M) 469 Runs 122SR
1st Inn- 29 Avg (12 M) 345 Runs
2nd Inn- 25 Avg (6 M) 124 Runs
•Venue- 34 Avg (9 M) 305 Runs 141SR
1st Inn- 40, 0, 15, 60, 12, 47
2nd Inn- 50, 22, 59
•Form- 66*, 30, 14, 17, 22, 2°, 60, 0, 0, 42, 55, 5, 36
BATSMAN
Jos Buttler- 37 Avg (11 M) 370 Runs 140SR
1st Inn- 56 Avg (5 M) 225 Runs
2nd Inn- 24 Avg (6 M) 145 Runs
•Venue- 51 Avg (5 M) 205 Runs 168SR
1st Inn- 36, 39, 89
2nd Inn- 41
•Form- 95, 8, 18, 27, 0, 40, 0, 52, 79, 19, 54, 40, 4, 67, 26, 76, 9
Yashasvi Jaiswal- 22 Runs (2 M)
1st- #
2nd- 22, 0
•Venue- 55 Runs (4 M)
•Form- 35, 14°, 124, 77, 47, 44, 1, 10, 60, 11, 54, 4, 73*
Devdutt Padikkal- 22 Avg (7 M) 151 Runs 117SR
1st- 32, 25, 22, 21, 24, 2
2nd- 25
•Venue- 28 Runs (1 M)
1st- #
2nd- 28
•Form- 12, 2, 27, 26, 2
Shimron Hetmyer- 30 Avg (7 M) 91 Runs 175SR
1st- 7, 4, 17, 26, 27*
2nd- 10, 0*
•Venue- 14 Runs (2 M)
1st- 10, 4
2nd- #
•Form- 7, 7, 8, 8, 3°, 2, 56, 30, 39, 36°, 22, 25, 0, 36
Dhruv Jurel- #
•Venue- #
•Form- #, 9, 2, 34, 34, 0, 18, 4, 8, 32*, 0
All-Rounder
Ravichandran Ashwin- 24W (26 M) 96 Runs 8EC, 22SR
1st- 7w8m | 2nd- 17w18m | 10m- #
•Venue- 9W (13 M) 52 Runs, 7.3EC, 30SR
1st- 4w7m | 2nd- 5w6m | 7m- #
•Form- 1w, 0w+2, 18+2w, 12+1w, 2w+3, 0w+10, 30+2w, 2w, 0w
Jason Holder- 31 Runs (4 M) 6W 8.1EC, 19SR
1st- # | 2nd- 6w4m | 1m- #
•Venue- 21 Runs (4 M) 2W, 9.3EC, 42SR
1st- 1w2m | 2nd- 1w2m | 2m- #
•Form- 11+0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0+0w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 13+1w, 1w, 36+0w, 15+0w
BOWLER
Trent Boult- 10W (8 M) 8.6EC, 18SR
1st- 3w2m | 2nd- 7w6m | 2m- #
•Venue- 7W (6 M) 8EC, 21SR
1st- 5w4m | 2nd- 2w2m | 1m- #
•Form- 0w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 3w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 1w
Sandeep Sharma- 9W (13 M) 8.5EC, 31SR
1st- 1w4m | 2nd- 8w9m | 9m- #
•Venue- 1W (4 M) 8.7EC
1st- 0w1m | 2nd- 1w3m | 3m- #
•Form- 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 2w, 3w, 5w
Yuzvendra Chahal- 24W (20 M) 7.8EC, 18SR
1st- 9w8m | 2nd- 15w12m | 6m- #
•Venue- 8W (11 M) 8.6EC, 31SR
1st- 6w6m | 2nd- 2w5m | 5m- #
•Form- 4w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 3w, 1w, 4w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 2w
BENCH:-
Riyan Parag- 14 Avg (6 M) 72 Runs 122SR
1st- 5, 19
2nd- 47, 1, 0
•Venue- 229 Runs (8 M) 132SR
1st- 9, 9, 47
2nd- 8, 51, 24, 77, 4
•Form- 4, #, 15*, 6, 7, 20, 7, 15+1w, 174+1w, 0+2w
Kuldeep Sen- 1W (1 M)
2nd- 1w1m | 0m- #
•Venue- #
•Form- 0w, 0w, 2w, 2w, 2w, 5w, 4w, 4w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 0w
KM Asif- 1W (1 M)
2nd- 1w1m | 0m- #
•Venue- 4W (2 M)
1st- 3w1m | 2nd- 1w1m | 0m- #
•Form- 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, #, 3w, 1w, 3w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 1w
Navdeep Saini- 5W (4 M) 7.5EC, 17SR
Joe Root- #
•Venue- 54 Runs (1 M) 150SR
1st- 54
•Form- #, 82, 80*, 20, 6, 26
KKR vs RR Key Matchups
1) Jason Roy Vs
Trent Boult- 94(102) Run : 5W
{3 times in 1st innings}
Yuz Chahal- 123(87) Run : 4W
A Zampa- 68(45) Run : 1W
O McCoy- 10(10) Run : 1W
2) Rahmanullah Gurbaz Vs
J Holder- 22(22) Run : 1W
Trent Boult- 29(17) Run : 1W
O McCoy- 4(7) Run : 1W
•LAO- 288(241) Runs : 17W {41 Inn}
3) Venkatesh Iyer Vs
J Holder- 19(14) Run : 1W
Trent Boult- 20(12) Run : 1W
Yuz Chahal- 17(11) Run : 1W
•LBS- 92(66) Runs : 5W {11 Inn}
4) Nitish Rana Vs
J Holder- 10(10) Run : 1W
Yuz Chahal- 95(75) Run : 5W
{All 5 times in 2nd innings}
A Zampa- 15(9) Run : 1W
Muru Ashwin- 14(13) Run : 1W
•LBS- 375(308) Runs : 18W {47 Inn}
5) Rinku Singh Vs
Sand Sharma- 15(6) Run : 1W
•LAM- 42(28) Runs : 3W {10 Inn}
6) Andre Russell Vs
J Holder- 65(32) Run : 2W
R Ashwin- 41(36) Run : 2W
{Both 2 times in 2nd innings}
Trent Boult- 41(26) Run : 2W
Yuz Chahal- 80(37) Run : 1W
•LAM- 725(399) Runs : 26W {102 Inn}
7) Shardul Thakur Vs
Trent Boult- 7(5) Run : 1W
8) Johnson Charles Vs
Trent Boult- 1(14) Run : 2W
{Both 2 times in 2nd innings}
A Zampa- 32(31) Run : 1W
O McCoy- 23(16) Run : 1W
9) Jos Buttler Vs
A Russell- 54(35) Run : 2W
S Narine- 100(100) Run : 3W
{All 3 times in 2nd innings}
S Thakur- 103(71) Run : 4W
{3 times in 2nd innings}
T Southee- 109(78) Run : 4W
{3 times in 1st innings}
U Yadav- 108(73) Run : 2W
V Chakaravarthy- 28(13) Run : 2W
{Both 2 times in 2nd inn}
L Ferguson- 62(41) Run : 2W
{Both 2 times in 2nd innings}
10) Yashasvi Jaiswal Vs
•LAO- 49(48) Runs : 5W {11 Innings}
•LAM- 95(73) Runs : 6W {17 Innings}
11) Devdutt Padikkal Vs
A Russell- 8(4) Run : 1W
S Narine- 9(8) Run : 1W
S Thakur- 23(28) Run : 3W
{2 times in 1st innings}
U Yadav- 0(4) Run : 1W
L Ferguson- 23(14) Run : 2W
•LAM- 254(168) Runs : 7W {22 Innings}
12) Sanju Samson Vs
A Russell- 32(19) Run : 2W
{Both 2 times in 1st innings}
S Narine- 64(78) Run : 3W
{All 3 times in 1st innings}
S Thakur- 37(27) Run : 1W
U Yadav- 101(61) Run : 3W
{Both 2 times in 1st innings}
•LBS- 633(502) Runs : 25W {77 Innings}
13) Shimron Hetmyer Vs
A Russell- 67(32) Run : 1W
S Narine- 45(60) Run : 1W
V Chakaravarthy- 6(6) Run : 1W
L Ferguson- 45(46) Run : 2W
•LBS- 423(344) Runs : 18W {59 Innings}
14) Riyan Parag Vs
A Russell- 12(6) Run : 1W
S Narine- 10(11) Run : 1W
S Thakur- 1(3) Run : 1W
T Southee- 6(4) Run : 1W
L Ferguson- 10(8) Run : 1W
•LAM- 102(58) Runs : 5W {16 Innings}
15) Jason Holder Vs
A Russell- 35(22) Run : 4W
{All 4 times in 1st innings}
S Narine- 39(39) Run : 1W
S Thakur- 25(25) Run : 2W
T Southee- 19(18) Run : 2W
U Yadav- 39(32) Run : 1W
V Chakaravarthy- 1(3) Run : 1W
D Wiese- 20(13) Run : 2W
L Ferguson- 11(19) Run : 2W
{Both 2 times in 2nd innings}
16) Joe Root Vs
A Russell- 29(53) Run : 1W
S Narine- 29(53) Run : 1W
T Southee- 148(133) Run : 1W
D Wiese- 84(76) Run : 1W
17) Ravi Ashwin Vs
A Russell- 38(32) Run : 2W
- S Narine- 17(27) Run : 2W
{Both 2 times in 2nd innings}
S Thakur- 22(15) Run : 2W
T Southee- 26(21) Run : 3W
{2 times in 1st i