The Sunrisers Hyderabad the runners up of last season will be facing Kolkata Knight Riders at 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.
David Warner finally joins the SRH team
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.
Both the teams are facing each other in the Knockout stage since last 3 seasons consecutively, Sunrisers have won 2 out of them and Knight Riders have won only once. They have very big fans army like the KKR army and the orange army whenever they face each other the stadium is full with golden and orange flags looks like the two bog kingdoms of the IPL.
Let us take you’ll to some of the Statistics which are related to the clash between SRH and KKR.
Till 2017 Sunrisers had never won a single game at Eden Gardens against Kolkata it was last year they won both their games at KKR’s home ground against them.
Robin Uthappa is just 88 runs behind his former opening partner Gautam Gambhir’s tally of 4217 runs and when he passes him he will become the 4th highest run-scorer in the IPL.
SRH all-rounder Shakib-Al-Hasan needs 1 wicket to surpass Shane Warne’s IPL wickets of 57 IPL wickets.
The last time David Warner played his IPL match was against Kolkata Knight Riders and after 2 years he will play against Kolkata Knight Riders.
