Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will be locking horns with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 19th game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Kolkata Knight Riders have won two of their three matches in the season so far, and are placed third on the points table with 4 points to their tally and a net run rate of +1.375.
On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad has managed to win just one game in the three games they have played so far, and are placed second last on the points table, with 2 points to their tally and a net run rate of -1.502. Kolkata Knight Riders are coming off a 3-wicket win against the Gujarat Titans, credit to Rinku Singh who smashed 5 sixes off the last 5 balls to take his side over the line.
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SRH registered their first win in the ongoing season in their last outing against Punjab Kings (PBKS) as they managed to win by 8 wickets. These two teams have met each other in a total of 23 games so far, where Kolkata Knight Riders won 15 while Sunrisers Hyderabad managed to take away 8 matches. Another exciting clash is anticipated here between these two teams on Friday.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Kolkata Knight Riders have Liton Das and Jason Roy warming the bench and perhaps that will negate the need for rescue acts like Shardul and Rinku Singh. One of the two will definitely be preferred after three different openers were tried with Gurbaz at the top. In fact, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and N Jagadeesan, who opened the batting against GT on Sunday, were the ninth opening pair in 17 matches for KKR since IPL 2022.
Probable XI: Jason Roy, N Jagadeesan (w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
The Sunrisers are likely to continue with the winning composition, and persist with Harry Brook despite his run of low scores, especially with the faster surface in Kolkata. They’re also likely to sub in Abdul Samad for the finishing role. Rahul Tripathi averages 34.88 against the Sunrisers striking at 163, and over 46 against KKR at Eden Gardens striking at 175. Expect him to take over from where he left off in the last game.
Probable XI: Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Mayank Markande, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik
Fantasy XI Suggestion 1:
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (vc), Rahul Tripathi, Mayank Agarwal, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Aiden Markram (c), Shardul Thakur, Marco Jansen, Umran Malik
Fantasy XI Suggestion 2:
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (c), Rahul Tripathi (vc), Mayank Agarwal, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Aiden Markram, Shardul Thakur, Umran Malik, Varun Chakravarthy
