The rain seems to have eased down in Guwahati. The side covers are being removed by the groundstaff. Keep your fingers crossed Rajasthan Royals fans. And SunRisers Hyderabad fans too.

Rain has gotten heavier in Guwahati only to increase the trouble for Rajasthan Royals. The covers are still on as the rain is not stopping anytime soon. This is not at a good sign for RR as they need this game to take place to keep their dreams of top-2 finish alive.

SRH have defeated PBKS by 4 wickets to reach to the second spot in the points table. SRH now have 17 points. If rain plays spoilsport in tonight's game between RR and KKR, the Sanju Samson-led side will fail to finish in the top two spot. Though a washout will see RR moving to 17 points, their net run rate is weaker than SRH's. This means that RR need to win this game tonight for a top-2 finish.

The toss for the game has been delayed due to rain in Guwahati. The pitch has been put under cover.

Another day, another rain delay
Toss is delayed in the clash of the table-toppers and Rajasthan fans will have their
Remember, if the game is abandoned, Hyderabad will secure the 2nd spot!
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Since their win in the return leg clash against Mumbai Indians at Eden Gardens on May 11, KKR have not played any match with the washout in Ahmedabad. Travelling to Ahmedabad and then back home in Kolkata for a day's practice and again heading to Guwahati for the final league clash could be quite frustrating and break their rhythm of four-match winning streak. It remains to be seen if the Gautam Gambhir-mentored side manage to hold on to the winning momentum without appearing to be rusty.

KKR (19 points), on the other hand, have already assured themselves a table top position after a washout against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad in the previous round handed them one point. They will be high on confidence but at the same time they may have to guard against complacency.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (c), KS Bharat (wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Gus Atkinson and Allah Ghazanfar.

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (c), Abid Mushtaq, Avesh Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Donovan Ferreira, Kuldeep Sen, Kunal Singh Rathore, Nandre Burger, Navdeep Saini, Ravichandran Ashwin, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Rovman Powell, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Trent Boult, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yuzvendra Chahal, Tanush Kotian.

RR's batting flair has eluded them as they have not managed to cross the 150-mark in their last two matches, and with their star England opener Jos Buttler returning home for national duty, the Royals have big shoes to fill. Their top three batters Yashasvi Jaiswal, skipper Sanju Samson and local hero Riyan Parag will have to shoulder additional responsibilities if they are to snap the losing streak and head to the playoffs finishing in top-two, that will give them two cracks to reach the final.

Rajasthan Royals will be desperate to snap their four-match losing streak and finish in the top two when they meet table toppers Kolkata Knight Riders in an important IPL game at Guwahati on Sunday. Having secured the playoff berth with 16 points, Royals have started floundering at the business end of the tournament losing four matches on the trot.