Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane has won the toss and elected to bowl first against Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2025.
“There will be a lot of dew in the second innings so we are bowling first. Moeen Ali has replaced Sunil Narine, who is unwell,” Ajinkya Rahane said.
Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag would have bowled first as well due to the dew factor. Wanindu Hasaranga is playing for Fazalhaq Farooqi.
KKR XI: 1 Quinton de Kock, 2 Venkatesh Iyer, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4, Rinku Singh, 5 Moeen Ali, 6 Andre Russell, 7 Ramandeep Singh, 8 Spencer Johnson, 9 Vaibhav Arora, 10 Harshit Rana, 11 Varun Chakravarthy.
Impact Sub Options: Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, and Anrich Nortje
RR XI: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Sanju Samson, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Riyan Parag, 5 Dhruv Jurel, 6 Shimron Hetmyer, 7 Wanindu Hasaranga, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Thushar Deshpande, 11 Sandeep Sharma.
