'Loyalty Matters': RR Star Nitish Rana Trolled After Falling For 8 vs Old Team KKR In IPL 2025
The Indian Premier League 2025 has not started at a good note at all for Rajasthan Royals. With two losses in two matches, RR finds themselves in the bottom half of the IPL 2025 points table. RR scored 151/9 in 20 overs, a target which was chased down in 17.3 overs by Kolkata Knight Riders. The loss would be more bitter for RR player Nitish Rana, who was a KKR player till IPL 2024. He got out for just 8 and after that he was heavily trolled on social media.
Once a Knight, Always a Knight
Real Knight Blood, Nitish Rana pic.twitter.com/y5X2fkDF5w
Nitish Rana finally batted for KKR!
Loyalty matters #KKRvsRR pic.twitter.com/UYpwjyJzO6
Now Nitish Rana should realise why KKR did not retain him.#RRvsKKR #IPL2025 pic.twitter.com/MQ0zleSOab
Earlier, Playing his first IPL game for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Moeen Ali stood up in Sunil Narine's absence to pick 2-23, while Varun Chakravarthy bounced back to take 2-17 as the defending champions restricted Rajasthan Royals (RR) to 151/9 in match six of IPL 2025 at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. Such was the brilliance of Narine and Chakaravarthy that KKR didn't even need Andre Russell's services with the ball, as RR went from 67/1 to 82/5. It also didn't help RR that their top-order fell to rash shot selection. It took Dhruv Jurel's 33 off 28 balls and Jofra Archer's cameo of 16 to take RR past 150.
Pushed into batting first, Jaiswal and Sanju Samson got off the mark with a boundary each in the opening over. With Spencer Johnson and Vaibhav Arora finding some swing, Samson struggled, while Jaiswal unveiled a straight drive and hook off the former to pick a four and six respectively.
In a bid to loft Arora through the off-side, Samson stepped down the pitch, but