RR vs KKR Preview, IPL 2021: Desperate Kolkata Knight Riders Hope To Bring Their Campaign Back On Track Against Rajasthan Royals

RR vs KKR, IPL 2021: Both Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals will hope to bounce back to winning ways, when they face each other on Saturday, at the Wankhede Stadium.

A desperate Kolkata Knight Riders will look to bring their campaign back on track after a hattrick of defeats when they face a beleaguered Rajasthan Royals in their IPL clash, on Saturday. Big on paper, KKR, led by England's World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan, have so far failed to come together as a unit and slipped to sixth in the table after starting the tournament on a high against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Facing bottom-placed Rajasthan Royals, who have been the most inconsistent team so far in the season, KKR will be desperate for a turnaround. The rise of Pat Cummins as a batsman in their 18-run defeat to CSK will provide a big boost but it can't paper over the failure of their star batsmen, who have floundered even while chasing even a modest target. The seamers too have leaked runs in the death overs. Having struggled on Chepauk's slow surface, KKR had hoped to return to winning ways at the Wankhede but Faf du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad took their attack to the cleaners and amassed a massive 220 for 3 in their previous match.