<p>Outmuscled in their previous matches, title-holders Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals will eye a quick course correction in every aspect when they face each other in an IPL match here on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The Knight Riders were beaten by seven wickets by <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/ipl-2025-to-get-us-off-to-that-start-was-crucial-josh-hazlewood-23505282" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><strong>Royal Challengers Bengaluru</strong></a> in the tournament-opener while the Royals were given a 44-run drubbing by Sunrisers Hyderabad.</p>
<p>The common theme in those defeats was how the seemingly powerful batting and bowling units of KKR and RR failed to fire.</p>
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<p>While the Rajasthan outfit might offer the excuse of playing on a Hyderabad shirtfront for the malfunction of their bowling unit, the Kolkata side do not have any such cover. Apart from <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/ipl-202-its-always-good-to-have-him-on-my-side-sunil-narine-on-varun-chakravarthy-23502838" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><strong>Sunil Narine</strong></a>, none of the KKR bowlers were able to contain free-flowing RCB batters, and in that the demystification of mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy might just worry them a bit.</p>
<p>Even on an Eden Gardens pitch that had some grip, Chakravarthy was given a towelling by Phil Salt and Virat Kohli. The KKR camp now hopes that Chakravarthy will find his stride on a Guwahati pitch that generally has some bite.</p>
<p>Similarly, KKR&rsquo;s middle-order batting crumbled spectacularly after skipper Ajinkya Rahane and Narine gave them a blistering start, eventually settling for a sub-par score.</p>
<p>Their batting pivots such as Venkatesh Iyer and Andre Russell got out, playing pre-determined cross-batted shots, and KKR will hope that they will show more game awareness in Guwahati.</p>
<p>It will also be a blot on stand-in skipper Riyan Parag who, at times, looked perplexed on the field about the decisions to be made.</p>
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