Rajasthan Royals lock horns with Kolkata Knight Riders at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad. The match starts at 4 pm IST. Follow this link for live scores and updates.
Coming to today's match, RR go into the match high on confidence having won three matches in a row.
KKR, on the other hand, haven't had best of times and would look to get back to winning ways after losing three matches in a row.
The last time these two teams met they produced a Super Over thriller!!!!! Birthday boy James Faulkner was the hero of the match and Steven Smith calmly and cleverly scored the winning runs for RR.
KKR have won the toss and elected to field. Gambhir says that the wicket looks good and won't change much. Watson says that they were anyway looking to bat first.
The big news is that KKR have dropped Kallis. He is replaced by Ryan ten Doeschate. The other change is Umesh Yadav replaces Piyush Chawla.
RR XI: A Rahane, K Nair, S Samson, S Watson, S Binny, S Smith, R Bhatia, J Faulkner, T Southee, P Tambe, R Tewatia.
KKR XI: R Uthappa, G Gambhir, M Pandey, Shakib Al Hasan, Y Pathan, R ten Doeschate, S Yadav, A Russell, R Vinay Kumar, S Narine, U Yadav.
Rahul Tewatia makes his debut for RR!
Right then! The RR openers ,Ajinkya Rahane and Karun Nair, stride out to the middle. Vinay Kumar will start off proceedings for KKR.
FOUR! Lovely wrist work, RR off the mark in style! Full on the pads, Rahane just flicks it through square leg. It races away to the fence.
This time Rahane flicks it with soft hands to mid-wicket for a single.
Play and a miss! Length delivery outside off, nips away. Keeps a touch low. Karun looks to force it to the off side but misses.
Five runs off the first over!
Umesh Yadav will bowl from the other end.
Drifts onto his pads, Rahane misses his clip, the ball brushes the thigh pad and rolls over to fine leg for a leg bye.
FOUR! Lovely placement! A touch wide, Karun just guides it wide of backward point.
Good stuff from ten Doeschate in the field. karun flicks it through square leg, ten Doeschate in the deep dives and makes a good stop. Saves a run.
On the pads again, Rahane clips it to fine leg for a single. Umesh Yadav didn't get his lines right in the first over! 9 runs off the over.
Vinay Kumar will continue.
Full on the pads, Rahane flicks it behind square leg for a couple.
Everything is on the pads at the moment. Rahane clips it behind square leg for another couple.
Another couple behind square leg. KKR bowlers aren't getting their lines right.
A couple of crisp punches from Rahane but good fielding means no runs conceded.
Another single behind square leg.
Umesh Yadav will continue.
He gets his line right off the first ball! Good length delivery outside off, Rahane looks to cut close to his body but is beaten by the pace.
In the air but safe! Rahane looks to clip but is early into his shot and gets a leading edge which falls safely to the off side.
FOUR! Effortless from Rahane! Just flicks a full delivery from Yadav nonchalantly over mid-wicket.
SIX! Another stunning shot! Rahane uses his feet and flicks a slower delivery from Yadav over deep square leg.
12 runs off the Yadav over. RR 33/0 after 4 overs.
Shakib into the attack now.
FOUR! Fantastic placement! Full on off, Karun gets down and sweeps it behind square leg.
FOUR! Another sweep and another four, back to back boundaries. Karun goes for a slog sweep but gets a top edge over square leg for a boundary.
10 runs off the Shakib over.
Right! The KKR trump card is into the attack - Sunil Narine!
Beauty! Spins away after landing outside off, Karun is completely bamboozled and he misses it.
Edgy! Again, it turns away, Karun looks to turn it to the leg side but gets an outside edge which falls just short of the first slip fielder.
FOUR! Splendid timing! Rahane stands tall and just punches it through extra cover. It races away to the fence.
Andre Russell into the attack now.
OUT! Fantastic piece of fielding. Narine scores a direct hit to send Rahane back. Karun flicks it straight to short fine leg and they go for a risky single. It falls perfectly to Narine who scores a direct hit. Rahane dives but is found well short. AM Rahane run out 30 (22b, 3x4, 1x6)
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