Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in the IPL 2023. It promises to be an exciting encounter as KKR would take confidence with the brilliance of Rinku Singh’s 5 successive sixes.
KKR will be bolstered by explosive opener Jason Roy who has done brilliantly in recent times. On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad won their first tournament match, defeating Kings Punjab Kings comfortably.
KKR is currently at the number 4 spot with 2 wins while Sunrisers Hyderabad is at the number 9th position with 2 points.
Match Details
Details– Match 19, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue– Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date and Time– 14 April 7.30
Head-to-Head Record
Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders played a total of 23 IPL matches with KKR winning 15 out of them and SRH winning just 8. The last time they met in the 2022 season, both teams won one match each.
SRH won the first encounter comfortably by 7 wickets. The second match saw KKR dominating the play and winning it by 54 runs.
Top Run Getter
David Warner occupies the top spot as the leading run scorer between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders. While he was the SRH franchise’s captain, Warner looked sublime, scoring 619 runs.
Top Wicket Taker
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the leading wicket-taker between SRH and KKR. He has picked 22 wickets so far SRH and would look to pick early wickets in tomorrow’s match against KKR.
Pitch Report
The pitch at Eden Gardens, Kolkata helps the pace bowlers initially and becomes good for batting. During the first match against RCB, KKR looked down and out with 89 runs for a loss of 5 wickets.
Shardul Thakur and Rinku Singh showed their class putting brilliant partnership to help KKR post 204. Varun Chakravarthy, Suyash Sharma, and Sunil Narine spun their web to bowl out RCB cheaply.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)- Predicted XI
KKR
Rahmanullah Gurbaz/Jason Roy, Narayan Jagadeesan, Venetaksh Iyer, Nitish Rana (C), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Lockie Ferguson.
SRH
Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brooks, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (C), Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, Heinrich Klassen.
Fantasy Team Selection- SRH vs KKR
Team 1– Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Mayank Agarwal (VC) Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram ©, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rinku Singh, Umran Malik, Marco Jansen, Umesh Yadav
Team 2– Abhishek Sharma, Harry Brooks, Rahul Tripathi (C), Andre Russell (VC), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Lockie Ferguson, T Natarajan, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma
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