Rinku Singh’s ferocious inning helped KKR win a thrilling match in the previous encounter between the two teams in the IPL 2023, which was played in Ahmedabad. For his side to earn two points, the Southpaw scored 31 runs in the final over.
Both teams are coming off wins, and they both want to keep it going. With a victory on Saturday, GT will attempt to retake the top spot on the league standings from KKR, who will be aiming to defeat both KKR and GT.
Expected lineups for the KKR vs GT match
KKR: Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, N. Jagadeesan (wk), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, David Wiese, Umesh Yadav, Vaibhav Arora, Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, and Nitish Rana (c),
GT: Mohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya (c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, and Wriddhiman Saha.
Important Players Battle from KKR vs GT
1. Varun Chakravarthy vs Shubman Gill
KKR will rely on mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy to get rid of Shubman Gill early in the innings if they want to keep the visitors to a respectable total.
2. Rashid Khan vs Venkatesh Iyer
It will be exciting to watch the match between the star batsman for KKR Venkatesh Iyer and the top spinner for GT. The visitors will be hoping that Khan can eliminate Iyer as early in the innings as possible.
3. Mohammed Shami vs Jason Roy
In his last two outings, Jason Roy hit fiery fifties, and he would welcome the opportunity to play another noteworthy shot.
But right away, Mohammed Shami’s lightning-fast blows would be coming at him.
Roy was dismissed by Shami during their lone T20 match.
In addition, six of Shami’s ten wickets this season have come during powerplays. This battle would undoubtedly be intriguing.
4. Rashid Khan vs Rinku Singh
As KKR completed a stunning victory over GT earlier this season, Rinku Singh blasted five sixes in the final over. Rashid Khan could be unleashed against him, as he has battled against leg-spinners.
Rashid has faced 13 balls against the southpaw and only given up 12 runs, failing to dismiss him. Rinku has a 97.82 IPL overall strike rate against leg spin.
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