{"id":616902,"date":"2026-04-19T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:27:15","slug":"rr-opt-to-bat-hetmyer-and-brijesh-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616902\/","title":{"rendered":"RR opt to bat, Hetmyer and Brijesh return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toss Rajasthan Royals opt to bat vs Kolkata Knight Riders<\/p>\n

Riyan Parag won the toss for Rajasthan Royals<\/a> and decided to bat first on an excessively hot Kolkata afternoon. For a change, both sides wanted to bat first. It possibly had to do with more than just the conditions; Kolkata Knight Riders have struggled when chasing and RR also were bundled out in a chase in their last match.<\/p>\n

After leaving Shimron Hetmyer<\/a> out for the last match, RR reverted to the old combination. It meant Lhuan-dre Pretorius had to sit out. Right-arm quick Briijesh Sharma replaced Tushar Deshpande, who went for 55 runs in the last match.<\/p>\n

KKR, still searching their first win after six matches into the season, didn’t make any changes to their playing group.<\/p>\n

The decision at the toss meant we would get to watch Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Yashasvi Jaiswal in earnest. April 19 was exactly a year since Sooryavanshi made his IPL debut with a first-ball six off Shardul Thakur. Two matches later he blasted a 35-ball century against Delhi Capitals.<\/p>\n

Rajasthan Royals: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 3 Dhruv Jurel (wk), 4 Riyan Parag (capt.), 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Donovan Ferreira, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Nandre Burger, 11 Brijesh Sharma<\/p>\n

RR bench: Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Ravi Singh, Yash Punja<\/p>\n

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt.), 2 Tim Seifert (wk), 3 Cameron Green, 4 Rovman Powell, 5 Rinku Singh, 6 Anukul Roy, 7 Ramandeep Singh, 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Kartik Tyagi, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Vaibhav Arora<\/p>\n

KKR bench: Manish Pandey, Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Tejasvi Singh, Navdeep Saini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Rajasthan Royals opt to bat vs Kolkata Knight Riders Riyan Parag won the toss for Rajasthan Royals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-616902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}