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KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: BACK TO BACK FOURS AGAIN! Jaiswal ridiculous!

We are seeing a legendary innings unfold folks. This is one those moments that will be remembered for years and years to come.

IPL 2023 Live score: RR 59/1 in 4 overs

It's hardly smash and grab from Jaiswal, it is just smart T20 hitting. He patiently lets four dot balls go in the fourth over from Varun Chakravarthy before getting a wide one that he could put away for four. He moves to 59 off 19, Sanju Samson at the other end, if it matters, is on one off 2.

KKR vs RR Live Score: 50! Jaiswal breaks the record!

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: BACK TO BACK FOURS AGAIN FROM JAISWAL!

This is just extraordinary hitting from the youngster Second ball of the third from Sharul Thakur, Jaiswal makes room and drives. Then he pulls the next through midwicket.

IPL 2023 Live score: SIX! Jaiswal unstoppable!

KKR vs RR Live Score: FOUR OVERTHROWS!

Some more eggs for Nitish Rana's face. With no one backing up and the keeper nowhere in sight, Rana throws at the striker's end where Jaiswal is standing, the ball deflects off the stumps and runs to the boundary.

KKR vs RR Live Score: OUT! Suicidal running and Buttler is run out

Buttler played the ball and then took a couple of steps before indicating that he didn't want to go for the run, Jaiswal was already halfway down the pitch and so Buttler darts down the ground anyhow. Russell picks the ball up and slings it at the non-striker's end, Buttler is not even in the frame.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: FOUR! 26 RUNS OFF THE FIRST OVER!

Yashasvi Jaiswal you superstar! Rana sends the last ball short and wide, Jaiswal puts it between backward point and point to go past 500 runs for the season. The record for most runs in the first over of an IPL match was 27, Jaiswal has missed that by one, Rana can silently take his cap back from the umpire and try and put that pasting out of his head.

IPL 2023 Live score: NOW BACK TO BACK FOURS!

20 runs off the first four balls of the innings. Talk about an explosive start. He creams the third ball through covers, then hits in the gap behind point.

KKR vs RR Live Score: SIX! MAKE THAT 2!

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: SIX! OFF THE FIRST BALL FROM JAISWAL!

Nitish Rana opens the bowling and Jaiswal takes guard with Buttler at the other end. He dances down and sends the KKR captain soaring downtown.

IPL 2023 Live score: Chahal talks

On this ground, I didn't want to give easy boundaries. Wanted to keep the ball away from the batters. The pitch was slow and aiding me. (On becoming leading IPL wicket taker) I never thought when I came into the IPL with MI that I’ll get here. I’m here because of all the support I’ve got along the way with family and friends. Definitely grateful to all. I hope we can win today, the batters should be able to get the runs.

KKR vs RR Live Score: KKR 149/8 in 20 overs

Sunil Narine dismissed by Sandeep off the last ball of that innings. Yuzvendra Chahal with figures of 4/25 is the star bowler today, apart from the fact that he just took a record off Dwayne Bravo today. Venkatesh Iyer tried his best to get KKR somewhere near 160 but it was not to be. RR were just too good with the ball and in the field, now let's see if they can be just as clinical with the bat.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: OUT! Wicket No.4 for Chahal and it's Rinku!

IPL 2023 Live score: KKR 139/6 in 18 overs

Just eight runs in that over. RR have been truly sensational in this innings, their bowlers have been on point and their fielders have hardly let anything go.

KKR vs RR Live Score: SIX! After 4 dot balls

It had been a brilliant over thus far from Sandeep for the 18th. Then Rinku smacks him down the ground for his first six of the day. It can still be a good over from Sandeep after this though, KKR are 137/6 in 17.5, which is surely where they did not want to be at this point.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: OUT! No.3 for Chahal

Big appeal for LBW from Chahal, umpire turns it down and Chahal shows the T himself. He forgets that he is not captain, Samson is and the latter takes the review looking at his senior bowler. As it turns out, Thakur was as plump as they come and Chahal now has the Purple Cap as well.

IPL 2023 Live score: GONE! Iyer falls

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: SIX!

Venkatesh thumps the third ball of the 16th from Asif over Root's head at long-on for another maximum. First boundary for KKR in 12 balls.

IPL 2023 Live score: 50 for Venkatesh

A single gets him to the mark in 39 balls. Not the fastest of fifties but how necessary has this been for KKR.

KKR vs RR Live Score: KKR 116/4 in 15 overs

Venkatesh on strike and he is on 49 off 38, Rinku Singh at the other end on four off five. Just six runs off the 15th over that was bowled by Ashwin so good comeback from him after being belted for 18th in the one he bowled before that.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: OUT! AND DRE RUSS SAYS GOODBYE!

Oh very next ball! Asif pulls his length slightly back after a chat with his captain next ball and Russell gets cramped on the move. Cuts it and Ashwin takes the catch over his head at backward point.Russell c Ashwin b Asif 10 (10), KKR 107/4 in 13.3 overs

IPL 2023 Live score: SIX! Dre Russ says hello

This partnership is starting to go places. KM Asif bowling 14th, his second of the day, goes too full and Russell pummels him back down the ground for his first six of the match.

KKR vs RR Live Score: FOUR! Iyer again!

KKR get close to 100. What a recovery this has been and it has largely been powered by Iyer. Inside out over cover, bottom hand comes off and the ball races to the boundary.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: FOUR! Venkatesh turning it on!

Total disrespect for the record Chahal just broke here from Iyer. He pulls the shortish delivery past deep square leg.

IPL 2023 Live score: SIX! Monster from Iyer!

Chahal returns for the 13th and Iyer smacks him miles back above his head downtown. England boys Jos Buttler and Joe Root left looking at each other with wry smiles as they saw that soar away.

KKR vs RR Live Score: KKR 79/3 in 11 overs

It was just starting to look like Iyer and Rana had found a way to get going when Chahal came in and broke an all-time record to end that stand. Now it is Andre Russell out there with nine overs to play with Iyer at the other end. Will be interesting to see just how Russell will approach this situation.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: OUT! Chahal breaks a record

Yuzvendra Chahal has gone past Dwayne Bravo as the highest wicket taker in the history of the IPL. It comes thanks to another brilliant catch from Bravo's former West Indies teammate Shimron Hetmyer. Rana sweeps Chahal flat in the air, Hetmyer seems to spot it late but recovers, runs in from deep backward square leg and dives forward to complete the catch. That is Chahal's 184th IPL wicket, he was tied on 183 with Bravo.

IPL 2023 Live score: FOUR! 18 runs off the 10th!

Rana slaps the last ball of that over wide of long-off. KKR are now 76/2 in 10 overs. Rana on 22 off 16, Iyer on 23 off 24.

KKR vs RR Live Score: MAKE THAT BACK TO BACK SIXES!

Iyer comes down the track for the third ball, smacks it down the ground for a biggie. How KKR needed these.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: SIX! Flat and hard from Iyer

He was on 11 off 21 and needed to connect and he does. Second ball of the 10th, Ashwin bowling and it is at length outside off, Venkatesh smashes it past deep mid flat and hard and it thumps into the advertisement hoardings before coming quite a few metres back into the field.

IPL 2023 Live score: FOUR! Boundary drought ends!

It has come only off Rana's gloves but KKR will take anything at this point. Second ball of the ninth bowled by Root, Rana tries to sweep the length ball coming into the pads. It goes between keeper and short fine leg.

KKR vs RR Live Score: KKR 50/2 in 8 overs

It has been 27 balls since the last boundary. Ashwin bowled the eighth and gave just six runs away.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: End of powerplay, KKR 37/2

Joe Root, among the greatest batters of this generation and among the greatest English batters of all time, bowls for the first time in this tournament before he will bat. He comes in for the seventh over. Venkatesh is 2 off 12, Nitish Rana is on 6 off 4.

IPL 2023 Live score: OUT! Another stunning catch!

KKR vs RR Live Score: BACK TO BACK SIXES!

Gurbaz slaps the first ball of the fourth bowled by Sandeep over mid-off. Then he elegantly lifts the next ball inside out over extra cover. Sensational stuff from the Afghan youngster.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: OUT! Roy falls!

IPL 2023 Live score: FOUR! Roy gets one away

First ball of the third, Roy picks the line early and slaps the length delivery over midwicket.

KKR vs RR Live Score: FOUR!

Length ball from Sandeep for the fourth ball, Gurbaz takes a slash and the ball takes an outside edge, goes to the right of the short third fielder.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: KKR 6/0 after 1 over

IPL 2023 Live score: Players are out!

Trent Boult bowling the first over for RR, Jason Roy and Rahmanullah Gurbaz are opening the batting for KKR. 

KKR vs RR Live Score: Yashasvi Jaiswal talks

“(On his personal form) By God’s grace, things are going good for now but as a team we are all trying to do well each game, let’s see how today pans out. The seniors in the side keep telling me to trust myself, play good cricketing shots and take brave decisions. Their words motivate me to bat fearlessly. (On team atmosphere) It is always great with our dressing room and with Sanju (Samson). We enjoy playing together. A few ups and downs like these will keep happening, those are learnings for us, we keep learning to move forward.”

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: KKR XI

Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

IPL 2023 Live score: RR XI

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Joe Root, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, KM Asif, Yuzvendra Chahal

KKR vs RR Live Score: The pitch and conditions

The boundaries are between 55 and 73 metres around the ground. Rohan Gavaskar says it's the same pitch as was used in the last game, where the degree of turn was 2.3, up from 1.5 in previous games. He says the spinners hit a good length to allow the pitch to do its thing and that's what they'll need to do today. He says there will be runs and that spinners from both teams will have a say.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: Nitish Rana's thoughts

“I think we're getting the type of pitches we want. We will have to play good cricket, take one game at a time and earn 2 points. One change for us - Anukul Roy replaces Vaibhav Arora. Looks like the pitch is dry, they haven't watered a lot, so we are playing that extra spinner and add some depth to the batting”

IPL 2023 Live score: What Sanju Samson said

“We will bowl here first. Long tournament, need to change according to the strength and weaknesses. Couple of changes for us - Boult replaces Kuldeip Yadav, KM Asif replaced Murugan Ashwin. Root will bat at 4. It's a long tournament, we have had some tough games for the bowlers, the morale of the team is high, not easy to forget close losses, but we need to move on”

KKR vs RR Live Score: TOSS ALERT!

Sanju Samson has won the toss and said that Rajasthan Royals want to field first.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: RR full squad

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Joe Root, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldip Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Adam Zampa, Riyan Parag, Jason Holder, Obed McCoy, Trent Boult, Navdeep Saini, Akash Vasisht, KC Cariappa, KM Asif, Kuldeep Sen, Donavon Ferreira, Abdul Basith, Kunal Singh Rathore

IPL 2023 Live score: KKR full squad

Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jason Roy, Anukul Roy, N Jagadeesan, Lockie Ferguson, Kulwant Khejroliya, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Mandeep Singh, Johnson Charles, David Wiese, Aarya Desai

KKR vs RR Live Score: Narine's nosedive

Sunil Narine took six wickets in KKR's first three games, leading to proclamations that the West Indies veteran is set to show this season that he still has a lot left in his tank. However, he has only picked one wicket in eight matches since and his economy of 8.60 is the worst for him in an IPL season.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: Rinku's stats for the season

Oh to be Rinku Singh right now, hearing the Eden Gardens chanting your name even when you've got Andre Russell batting at the other end. Rinku has scored 337 runs in 11 matches at a strike rate of 151.12 and average of 56.17. Those are unreal numbers for a batter whose primary job is to provide a good finish.

IPL 2023 Live score: 10-point log jam

Today could be the start of the process in which the 10-point logjam gets resolved, although it might only be replaced by a 12-point logjam for a brief period before the league stage ends. RR and KKR are two of the four teams stuck on this number and so one of these two sides are going to rise up to fourth with a win today. How that will matter in the race for the final four positions is a problem that requires some ground breaking mathematics to arrive at a solution. We will know when we know, eh?

KKR vs RR Live Score: KKR at home at last?

KKR had a tough initiation to playing at the Eden Gardens this season but seem to have cracked the code of late. The dry pitch that they played on against PBKS brought their spinners into play and Varun Chakravarthy especially seems to have rediscovered his mojo.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: RR's form trough

RR had lost one of their first five matches this season, which is the reason why they are still fifth despite winning just once in their last five games. A combination of runs drying up from middle order stalwards like Shimron Hetmyer and Sanju Samson, Trent Boult's injury troubles and some peculiar tactics from Samson have contributed in their form falling off a cliff. A loss today will actually put question marks on whether they can make it to the playoffs, which is extraordinary considering they were in the conversation for topping the league table for much of the first half of this stage.

IPL 2023 Live score: Rinku, Eden's new darling 

It was "Rinku! Rinku!" that could be heard from the same stands that once shouted for Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar and, in the IPL years, for the likes of Gautam Gambhir and Andre Russell. Russell was in the middle at the time these chants were ringing out but it was in Rinku Singh that KKR have found a finisher to put their faith in this season. He has happy memories of playing against RR. His match-winning innings of 42* off 23 against RR last year won him his first Player-of-the-Match award in IPL and proved to be a turning point in his career at KKR. Since then, he has never missed a game for the franchise.

KKR vs RR Live Score: Russell on Rinku

"In any other game, with any other batter, I'm not sure if I would run [a bye in the penultimate ball]," Russell told reporters on his late partnership with Rinku that won KKR their last match against Punjab Kings. “I've never really done those things before. I would back myself to bat the last delivery and get the job done. But when you have a guy like Rinku, who has been so successful in the last couple of overs for us, and when you have such a fearless player who has a shot to counter any delivery, I was definitely confident.”

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: What did Trent Boult have to say?

Ahead of the match, RR pacer Boult said, "KKR are a good side. Andre Russell is one of the most devastating batters in T20s. He has been out a few times, but bowling to him is difficult. Also, one should not forget Rinku Singh."

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: Head-to-head

Both sides have faced each other 26 times with KKR leading 14-10 vs RR. Two matches have ended as a tie.

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: Squads

KKR vs RR Live Score IPL 2023: Hello and good afternoon everyone!

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