The Kolkata Knight Riders played their first practice match ahead of the IPL 2025 season on Saturday (March 15). An intrasquad match saw Team Purple, lead by Ajinkya Rahane, beating Venkatesh Iyer's Team Gold by 6 wickets.
KKR Practice Match Brief Score

That's all from us. An enthralling match at the Eden Gardens as the Knights rehearse their artillery before the battle begins. There will be more practice matches in coming days. See you Soon!!
Rinku Singh is the highest scorer of the match with 79 unbeaten runs
Rinku Singh manages only a single in the final delivery and Team Gold defend the 280 target as Team Purple end up with 277 runs. Rinku is gutted but he has played a stellar knock already.
Rinku Singh connects and after a Moeen Ali error, it goes over for a six!
Anukul Roy gets a single after a wide ball and Team Purple need 10 runs off 2 balls, and it is Rinku Singh on strike.
After the poor start, Venkatesh Iyer has come back strongly with two consecutive dot balls. Team Purple need 12 runs off 3 deliveries.
Venkatesh Iyer bowls consecutive Wide deliveries and then concedes an unlucky boundary. 12 needed for Team Purple in 5 balls.
Rinku Singh is batting on 70 runs in just 29 balls. Team Purple need 18 runs to win off the last over and Venkatesh Iyer will bowl the over.
Anrich Nortje bowls three consecutive dot balls to Anukul Roy. The southpaw has failed to connect so far. Purple need 26 runs in 9 deliveries.
Anukul Roy and Rinku Singh will be aiming to score 26 runs off the last 12 balls to achieve the new Revised Target of 280 runs.
Rinku Singh goes straight down the ground and Team Purple have crossed 250-mark. Rinku is batting on 64 runs in just 26 deliveries. Now the revised target is 280 runs.
Rinku Singh gets to his Half-Century with a massive Six! He is batting on 52 runs.
Rinku Singh gets a boundary and moves to 46 in just 22 deliveries. Team Purple need just 15 to win the revised target.
Anukul Roy is the new batter at the crease.
Wicket!! Ramandeep Singh is OUT, Anrich Nortje bowls a bouncer and gets his man.
Ramandeep Singh skies Anrich Nortje for a massive six. Now the Team Purple need 19 runs off 20 balls to achieve the new target.
The target has been reset to 250 and now Team Purple need 29 runs in 23 deliveries.
After 16 overs, KKR Team Purple are 216 for 4. Now the scenario has been changed as they are handed a Target of 250 runs.
Team Purple have scored 216 runs, thus effectively winning the match with 25 balls to spare. But the match is going to continue as its a practice match. Let's see how much the KKR Team Purple can score!
Ramandeep Singh hits a massive six. Team Purple are just a hit away from victory.
Andre Russell is toying with a Net Bowler. The KKR giant is batting on 59 runs in just 24 deliveries. And now he is Retiring Out.
Team Purple need 20 runs in 30 deliveries.
Andre Russell gets to his half-century for Team Purple. The KKR fans will be extremely ecstatic with Dre Russ' form. He is on 53 runs in just 22 deliveries.
Team Purple now just need 27 runs in 32 deliveries.
The KKR Purple team are 175 for 4 at the end of 14 overs. Russell and Rinky both are going strong at the moment. Russell bats on 40 runs in just 19 balls, while Rinku is 33 off just 17 balls.
Rinku Singh attempts a reverse sweep and finds the gap. He is currently unbeaten on 26 runs and going strong as well.
The Team Purple are motoring along as they are 163/4 after 13 overs. Russell continues to bat on 39 and the required run rate has gone down ridiculously. Purple boys need only 53 runs in 42 deliveries to win the match.
Andre Russell flicks Venkatesh Iyer's low full toss and manages to get a maximum.
Moeen Ali concedes 10 runs off this over and the Team Purple are 146 for 4 after 12 overs.
Russell is demolishing the Team Gold bowlers as the West Indian is batting on 32 runs off just 13 deliveries.
At the end of 11 overs, Team Purple are 136 for 4 and need 80 runs to win in nine overs.
Mayank Markande bowls an extremely expensive over as Andre Russell clubs him across the park. Already 18 runs off this over.
Kolkata Knight Riders have already begun their pre-season camp in Kolkata from March 12. The Knight Riders are the defending champions and will have most of their star players in action in the upcoming match.
Newly appointed captain Ajinkya Rahane, vice-captain Venkatesh Iyer are set to play the match today. Foreign players such as Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Rahmanullah Gurbaz have also arrived and they are likely to play a part in the match as well. South African duo Quinton de Kock and Anrich Nortje will play as the latter returns to cricket after an injury lay-off.
KKR head coach Chandrakant Pandit, mentor Dwayne Bravo will be overseeing the action at the Eden Gardens today.
Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana and Spencer Johnson are the three players who will miss the match as they are yet to join the KKR squad.
Ajinkya Rahane (C), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Anrich Nortje, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Umran Malik