Welcome to the coverage of the 49th match of the Indian Premier League between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals in Kolkata, on Tuesday.

A buoyant Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns with a charged up Rajasthan Royals in a battle for survival in IPL-11.

Their fate hanging in balance, a loss in the penultimate league round match may virtually sound the death knell for one of the two teams.

It's a mad scramble for the two available play-off berths with five teams including KKR and RR, who are tied on 12 points, remaining in the hunt.

To make the competition stiffer, both the teams have picked up late momentum in the business end of the tournament.

Down after back-to-back defeats, KKR bounced back with a bang, posting the fourth highest total of the IPL -- 245/6 -- to down Kings XI Punjab by 31 runs in their last match.

From being on the verge of elimination, RR too have returned to the reckoning with a hat-trick of wins, thanks to the imperious form shown by Jos Buttler who was adjudged man-of-the-match in all the three victories.

The RR opener struck an unbeaten 94 to seal an easy seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians on Sunday. This was the English wicketkeeper-batsman's fifth consecutive half-century -- an IPL record jointly held with Virender Sehwag.