Rajasthan Royals Captain Sanju Samson won the toss and elected to field first against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 54th match of the IPL 2021. The match is being played at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah.

Head 2 head count between KKR & RR stands really close at 12-11 in favour of KKR. However, last time these two teams met in the first leg, RR defeated KKR by 6 wickets. Playing XI of both teams are:

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy

Rajasthan Royals (RR) - Evin Lewis, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Shivam Dube, Glenn Phillips, David Miller/Liam Livingstone, Rahul Tewatia, Shreyas Gopal, Kuldip Yadav, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya