The world is ready to witness yet another big battle of the IPL T20. The 18th Match of the Indian Premier League is scheduled to play between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday, 24th April 2021 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. We are posting safe, accurate, and 100% secure today match prediction for all matches of IPL T20 free.

Rajasthan Royals had struggled in this season of IPL T20 so far in batting, bowling, and even fielding. They had lost three out of four matches played so far and right now, they are at the bottom of the points table. David Miller, Chris Morris, and the skipper, Sanju Samson had put some runs on the board in previous matches but the performance of Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, and Manan Vohra has a big question mark. If David Miller and Sanju Samson had failed to score some runs, the batting order of Rajasthan Royals had struggled. This is still the early stage of this tournament and Rajasthan Royals have to solve the issues which they are facing in batting and also in bowling. Shivam Dube and Rahul Tewatia had finally got some got form and scored some runs in the most recent match against Royal Challengers Bangalore and need to continue this good form in the next matches.

The bowling department of Rajasthan Royals had the worst performance of their IPL history in their most recent match against Royal Challengers Bangalore where they leaked the target of 178 runs in just 16.3 overs without picking any wickets. Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, and Shreyas Gopal failed to give a good performance. Chetan Sakariya is the only bowler from Rajasthan’s side who had picked some wickets in the previous matches but we had not seen some best performances by any other bowler of the Rajasthan Royals. We think the team management of this team needs to take big steps and upgrade their squad to compete with the best teams of this tournament.

Kolkata Knight Riders are the other team who had won just one out of four matches played so far we can’t say that this is a weak team. The batting order of KKR is till number eight. The previous match of Kolkata Knight Riders against Chennai Super Kings is a great example of this where they lost their key five batsmen on a total of just 31 runs and they scored a total of 203 runs in their 20 overs inning. Finally, Andre Russell showed some power hitting which was missing for the last some matches. He smashed the inning of 54 runs on just 22 deliveries with a strike rate of 245. He smashed three boundaries and seven huge sixes during his inning. Pat Cummins was the other batsman who put some runs on the board in the previous match. He scored 66 runs including 30 runs in one over of Sam Curran. Dinesh Karthik also showed some good batting in the previous match.

Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, and the skipper, Eoin Morgan failed to put some runs on the board in the previous match but we are sure they will perform well in this match. The bowling department of Kolkata Knight Riders had been good in almost all previous matches. Varun Chakravarthy had been the economical bowler but he had failed to pick early wickets. Andre Russell was just outstanding with the ball in the very first match but he had almost failed in the next matches. Not only had leaked plenty of runs, but he also had failed to pick wickets. Pat Cummins was the most expensive bowler in the most recent match as he leaked 58 runs in his four overs and remained wicketless. Prasidh Krishna also leaked a lot of runs against CSK. Mumbai is a high-scoring venue and the bowling department of Kolkata needs to the bowler to the right areas to stop the batting order of Rajasthan from scoring the runs.

Rajasthan Royals had played 22 matches against Kolkata Knight Riders where Rajasthan Royals had won 10 matches while Kolkata Knight Riders had won 12 matches overall.

Rajasthan Royals had won just one out of five most recent matches played while Kolkata Knight Riders also had won just one out of five recently played matches.

Kolkata Knight Riders is a strong and better-balanced team and has a strong batting and bowling department. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger at least on papers. According to our today prediction, Kolkata Knight Riders is the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make Kolkata Knight Riders a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• Kolkata Knight Riders is overall a strong team as compared to Rajasthan
• Kolkata Knight Riders have a better batting lineup unit
• Rajasthan Royals have more strength in their batting lineup
• Kolkata Knight Riders are strong when it comes to power-hitting
• Rajasthan Royals have depth in the batting and bowling

Kolkata Knight Riders is overall a strong team than Rajasthan Royals. They have the best players in the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitter of t20 format is part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today match for Kolkata Knight Riders have been increased. The equation of who will win today cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Kolkata Knight Riders have 52% chances to win this match
Rajasthan Royals has 48% chances to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL T20 as we had observed in the previous editions. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as defending had been difficult in the most recent matches of IPL.

The 18th Match of IPL T20, 2021 is going to be held at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting in early overs. The track is slower than the others we have seen and helps the spinners quite a bit. We are hoping that the surface is bound to get slower and be a bit more difficult for batting in the last overs this match. A score of 200 plus seems to be a par score.

The weather forecast of Mumbai is almost good this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Dream11 fantasy team lineup prediction for Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders 18th Match IPL 2021. After checking the latest player’s availability, which players will be part of both teams, the possible tactics that the two teams might use as we had learned from previous seasons of the Indian Premier League to make the best possible Dream11 team.

Date: Saturday, 24th April 2021
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 07:30 PM LOCAL / 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: Wankhede Stadium
Location: Mumbai, India
Opened: 1974
Capacity: 33,000
Ends: Garware Pavilion End, Tata End
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Home to: Mumbai
Floodlights: Yes
Curator: Sudhir Naik

Total matches: 7
Matches won batting first: 2
Matches won bowling first: 5
Average 1st Inns scores: 194
Average 2nd Inns scores: 182
Highest total recorded: 240/3 (20 Ov) by IND vs WI
Lowest total recorded: 172/10 (20 Ov) by AFG vs RSA
Highest score chased: 230/8 (19.4 Ov) by ENG vs RSA
Lowest score defended: 209/5 (20 Ov) by RSA vs AFG

Jos Buttler, Manan Vohra, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Shivam Dube, David Miller, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Shreyas Gopal, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman, Jaydev Unadkat, Andrew Tye, KC Cariappa, Mahipal Lomror, Mayank Markande, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, Kuldip Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Akash Singh.