HIGHLIGHTS : RR vs KKR 18th IPL Match HIGHLIGHTS | Rajasthan Royals won by 6 wkts #rrvskkr #18thmatch #highlights The 18th and most exciting match of IPL 2021 was played between Sanju Samsung's Rajasthan Royals and ON Morgan's Kolkata Knight Riders. In this match, Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to bowl first and invited the Kolkata team to bat first. After that, two Kolkata opener batsmen came into the ground with the intention of raining runs. The pair of Nitish Rana and Shubman Gill were expecting a big opening partnership for the Kolkata team. But this hope of Kolkata suffered a major injury in the sixth over of the innings. On the fourth ball of the sixth inning of the innings, Shubman Gill was run out by Joss Butler and the Kolkata team gave the first blow to Shubman Gill. But then after Gill, Rahul Tripathi, who came to bat for the Kolkata team, along with Nitish Rana tried to handle the Kolkata innings. But then in the ninth over of the innings, Chetan Sakaria got the set batsman Nitish Rana caught out by Sanju Samson. Nitish Rana was dismissed for 22 runs in 25 balls. Soon after Nitish Rana, the Kolkata team got two consecutive major setbacks. First, Sunil Narayan was caught out by Jaydev Unadkat at the hands of Yashasvi Jaiswal and after that, Kolkata captain Morgan came to bat, Rahul Tripathi was run out by Rahul Tripathi for a wrong run. Kolkata's team lost four top order batsmen within 61 runs. But then Andre Russell, who came to bat, formed a small but important partnership with Rahul Tripathi, but then in the 16 overs of the innings, the Kolkata team got a big blow, Kolkata's set batsman Rahul Tripathi was caught out by Mustafizur Rahman at the hands of Ryan Parag. Got it done. Rahul Tripathi, looking in excellent form, was able to score only 36 runs in 26 balls. Now the responsibility of taking the Kolkata team to a big goal in the final overs from here was on the shoulders of Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik. But Andre Rasail did not last long and he was caught out in the 18th over of the innings by Chris Morris at the hands of David Miller. In this match, Andre Russell was able to score just 9 runs in 7 balls. But in the end, a combative innings by Dinesh Karthik helped the Kolkata team reach a respectable target of 133 runs. Then two hot opener batsmen from Rajasthan came on to chase a small target of 134 runs from Kolkata. Joss Butler and this time Yashasvi Jaiswal came to the ground to start the Rajasthan innings. But the pair could not stay on the field for long and in the fourth over of the innings, Varun Chakraborty dismissed Joss Butler lbw. Joss Butler was able to score 5 runs in just 7 balls and in his very next over, Rajasthan's second opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was caught by Shivam Mavi at the hands of Nagarkoti. The set-up Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 22 runs in 17 balls. Due to two big jumps one by one, now Rajasthan's team was under some pressure. But his captain Sanju Samson was present with Rajasthan and Shivam Dubey, who was supporting him, along with Sanju Samsung took over Rajasthan's Dagmagai innings. Both of them did not let a single wicket fall of Rajasthan team till the 10th over of the innings. An excellent 45-run partnership was formed between these two. But then in the 11th over of the innings, Varun Chakraborty caught Shivam Dubey at the hands of the famous Krishna. Got it done. Shivam Dubey was out after scoring 22 runs in 18 balls. Soon after that, Rahul Tevatiya was caught by the famous Krishna at the hands of Nagarkoti. Rahul Tewatia was able to score just 5 runs in 8 balls. In this low scoring match, the Kolkata bowlers bowled brilliantly in the over of the bitch and took the match to the last over. Now Rajasthan's team needed 30 runs in the final 5 hours to win. Kolkata bowlers were putting their lives in the final over of this match. But in the end, the bowling of Kolkata in front of Rajasthan batsmen could not show much more and in the end, due to Rajasthan's excellent batting, the team of Kolkata Knight Riders lost this match.