Rahul Dravid Left Speechless As RR Suffer Yet Another Heartbreaking Defeat With 1 Run Loss vs KKR

The miserable 2025 IPL season of the Royals of Rajasthan (RR) continued, when they failed in another race chase to undergo a heartbreaking defeat for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Sunday. Chasing 207, Captain of RR, RR, Riyan Parag, had brought them back alone in the continuation of the race. However, RR failed to finish, ending up losing his ninth game on 12 games this season. After the match, head coach Rahul Dravid appeared without emotion in the canoe, after witnessing another narrow defeat.

It was not an excellent year for Dravid who was renamed Royals of the Royals of the Rajasthan before the 2025 IPL. During a season when their regular captain Sanju Samson underwent coherent injuries, RR failed to finish several racing laws from posts.

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Against KKR, it was no different. After being 71/5 at one point, Riyan Parag played a sparkling blow of 95 out of 45 balls to bring RR right away in the match. However, he left without closing the game.

He looked everywhere for RR, but their hopes were noted once again in the final. Need 22 to win the last six bullets, the Shubham Dubey impact player took the slowdown Kkr Vaibhav Arora to the cleaners.

However, needing 3 points to win the last ball, Dubey failed to connect, and Jofra Archer failed to finish while the strikers tried to scrape two.

Captain of Rajasthan Royals, Captain Riyan Parag, said that he calculated the target badly and did not finish the match while Kolkata Knight Riders won a race for a fascinating meeting on Eden Gardens on Sunday.

“I was too sad about my outing. Probably a calculation error on my side, I should have finished it. I think we could have found better options in the last six Overs. I think they were 120 or 130 and our spinners did very well and perhaps could have reduced their race, but the game was in our hands. We should have finished well,” Parag said after the match.

Thinking about their bowling performance in the match, Parag admitted that he could have better used his resources against Andre Russell who scored 25-ball 57 at the end of the rounds.

With five wins in 11 games. KKR kept their playoffs alive and climbed in the sixth place in the table of points. Wednesday, KKR Host Chennai Super Kings in Eden Gardens.

On the other hand, the Royals of Rajasthan face the CSK at the bottom of the table competing at the Ma Chidambaram stadium on May 12.