The Sunrisers Hyderabad the runners up of last season will be facing Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens on Sunday to play their opening match of 2019 edition of IPL. Sunrisers Hyderabad had knocked out Knight Riders by 14 runs in the last year’s Qualifier 2 and this year their key Batsman David Warner has returned to the squad as his International Ban is about to end this month. SRH will be full of confidence with the bat this year.

Also, Knight Riders faced early blow before the tournament as their main bowlers who starred in 2018 Under 19 World Cup have been ruled out due to injuries. Kolkata will face challenges to pick their pace attack and put a solid performance with the ball.

Let us look at the 5 players to look in the match between KKR vs SRH.

5) Harry Gurney

His whirly left-arm action may look ungainly and also has lots of variations which he uses at crucial moments to pick big scalps. He has much experience in Domestic English tournaments played in different county clubs like Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire(currently).

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Knight Riders will be more relied on Gurney to lead the attack as Nagarkoti and Mavi are not available for them and Sandeep Warrier has no experience so Gurney with his expertise will try to build the pressure against the batsman and also is effective in death overs and has defended many matches as he did for the Melbourne Renegades which helped them lift the title this season.