IPL 2018 Live RR V/s KKR: KKR wins by 7 wickets
IPL 2018 Live RR V/s KKR: KKR wins by 7 wickets
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The 15th match of the 11th season of the IPL  played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals today at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. This ground is the home ground of Rajasthan On which he would like to win .

In today's match, Kolkata won the toss and decided to bowl first. After losing the toss and coming to bat first, Rajasthan were successful in getting started on their home ground. However, within two overs, two of his big batsmen returned to the pavilion. Captain Ajinkya Rahane dropped to the score of 54 in the first wicket. At the same time, the second wicket too soon dropped in the form of Sanju Samson. He made just 7 runs Captain Ajinkya was run out by Dinesh Karthik on Rana's delivery. On the other hand, Shivam Mavi walked Sanju on his ball. At the same time, the fourth wicket of Rahul Tripathi dropped.

After the 14-over game Rajasthan got some speed. Although his wickets continued to fall as Kolkata's Nitish-Tom got 2-2 while Mavi, Kuldeep and Piyush took 1-1 wickets. In the 20 overs, Kolkata lost eight wickets and scored a challenging total of 160 runs.For Rajasthan  Short scored the highest run of 44 runs.

Kolkata's Nitish-Tom got 2-2 while Mavi, Kuldeep and Piyush took 1-1 wickets. The target of 161 runs from Rajasthan was achieved by losing three wickets in 18.5 overs. Robin Uthappa, the most run-down batsman for Kolkata, has made highest score. He contributed 48 runs in 36 balls. At the same time, opener Sunil Narine contributed 35 runs in 25 balls. During this time he scored a total of 1 six and 5 fours.

Captain Dinesh Karthik hit a six off Ben Lufflin to give the team victory. Kartik contributed 42 while Nitish contributed 35 runs. Gautam got only two wickets from Rajasthan. With this defeat, Rajasthan also lost its dream of winning 10 consecutive matches on home ground. Along with this victory Kolkata also came in the points table  of winning.

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