Watch the highlights of KKR vs RR 53rd Match IPL 2025 - Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament of the 53rd T20 match played between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in 04th May 2025.
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| Harshit Rana and Ajinkya Rahane combined to dismiss Vaibhav Suryavanshi © Associated Press |
Andre Russell's 22-ball fifty, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Moeen Ali's each two wickets before Vaibhav Arora holds nerve as Kolkata Knight Riders pulled off a thrilling 1-run victory over Rajasthan Royals, despite a Riyan Parag's 45-ball 95 and KKR stay alive their play-offs hopes in a high-scoring thriller of the 53rd match of a Indian Premier League.
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- Kolkata Knight Riders' 1-run win was their joint smallest victory by terms of runs in IPL, jointly with their 1-run win against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at same venue in the last year.
- Kolkata Knight Riders' 56 for 1 was their joint fourth highest powerplay total against Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League.
- Kolkata Knight Riders' 86 for 2 was their seventh most runs after ten overs against Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League.
- 56 : Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ajinkya Rahane set up the sixth highest second-wicket partnership for Kolkata Knight Riders against Rajasthan Royals in IPL.
- 61 : Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Andre Russell equalled a joint third highest fourth-wicket partnership for Kolkata Knight Riders against Rajasthan Royals in IPL, jointly unbeaten 61-run stand held by between Nitish Rana and Dinesh Karthik at Jaipur in 2018.
- Andre Russell hammered a 22-ball his fifth fastest fifty for Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League and the fastest fifty by an KKR batsman against Rajasthan Royals in IPL, surpassing the previous record of 25-ball half-century held by Aaron Finch at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai in 2022.
- Kolkata Knight Riders' 206 was their joint 16th highest score in Indian Premier League and It is their third highest-score against Rajasthan Royals in IPL.
- Kolkata Knight Riders' 206 was their eighth highest total at Kolkata in IPL.
- Rajasthan Royals' 59 for 2 was their joint sixth highest powerplay total against Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League.
- Rajasthan Royals' 82 for 5 was their ninth most runs after ten overs against Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League.
- 58 : Yashasvi Jaiswal and Riyan Parag set up the second highest third-wicket partnership for Rajasthan Royals against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
- 92 : Riyan Parag and Shimron Hetmyer set up the record sixth-wicket partnership for Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League, previously jointly held by the unbeaten 85-run stand between (Steve Smith and James Faulkner) against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Bengaluru in 2014 and unbeaten 85-run stand between (Riyan Parag and Rahul Tewatia) against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Dubai (DICS) in 2020 and the tenth highest sixth-wicket stand in IPL.
- Riyan Parag scored 30-runs (6, 6, 6, 6, 6) in an over off Moeen Ali - the joint most runs scored by an Rajasthan Royals batsman in an over in IPL history, jointly with 30-runs hit by Rahul Tewatia off Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings)'s Sheldon Cottrell) at Sharjah in 2020 and Vaibhav Suryavanshi off Gujarat Titans' Karim Janat at Jaipur earlier in the last month.
- Six sixes off the six legal deliveries Riyan Parag has faced - Riyan Parag became the first player to hit six-sixes off six consecutive legal balls in IPL history.
- Riyan Parag's 95 was his highest score for Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League and the fifth highest-score by an RR batsman against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
- Rajasthan Royals' 205 was their joint 19th highest score in Indian Premier League and It is their third highest-score against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
- Rajasthan Royals' 205 was their second highest total at Kolkata in IPL after their 224 also against Kolkata Knight Riders in the last year.
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KKR scored massive total of 206-4 in 20 overs with top scorer by Andre Russell hammered a unbeaten 57 off 25-balls, Angkrish Raghuvanshi blasted a 44 off 31-balls including 5-fours with strike rate of 141.93.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz cracked a 35 off 25-balls including 4-fours & a six with strike rate of 140.
Ajinkya Rahane struck 30 off 24-balls including 2-sixes & a four with strike rate of 125 and Rinku Singh blasted a unbeaten 19 off 6-balls contained 2-sixes & a six with strike-rate of 316.66.
RR best bowler by Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh, Jofra Archer and Maheesh Theekshana took each took one-wickets.
RR scored 205-8 in 20 overs with top scorer by Riyan Parag hammered a career-best 95 off 45-balls - who fell five-run short of his century - including 8-sixes & 6-fours with strike rate of 211.11.
Yashasvi Jaiswal blasted a 34 off 21-balls including 5-fours & a six with strike rate of 161.90 and Shubham Dubey hammered a unbeaten 25 off 14-balls included 2-sixes & a four with strike rate of 178.57.
KKR best bowler by Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Moeen Ali each took 2-wickets and one for Vaibhav Arora.
Andre Russell named Player of the match for his power-hitting batting performance to smashed a unbeaten 57 off 25-balls including 6-sixes & 4-fours with strike rate of 228.
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