By India Today Sports Desk: Kolkata Knight Riders will host Sunrisers Hyderabad throughout the nineteenth match of the Indian Premier League 2023 on the Eden Gardens on Friday (April 14). The match between KKR and SRH will begin at 7:30 PM IST.
Both the teams are approaching the once more of wins. KKR stunned the defending champions Gujarat Titans, with Rinku Singh smashing 5 sixes off Yash Dayal throughout the closing over at hand KKR a three-wicket win.
IPL 2023: Points Table
On the other hand, SRH prevented a third consecutive defeat by securing an eight-wicket win over Punjab Kings. While SRH sit in ninth place with two elements, KKR are fourth with 4 elements.
PREVIOUS MEETING
KKR and SRH clashed twice ultimate season, with every worthwhile as quickly as. Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in Mumbai sooner than KKR avenged it with a 54-run win over SRH in Pune.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
KKR lead the head-to-head report in direction of SRH, 15-8. At the Eden Gardens, KKR dominate the match-up with six wins and two losses in direction of SRH.
INJURY CONCERN / AVAILABILITY
Jason Roy and Liton Das have joined KKR to boost their batting line-up. One of the two is anticipated to hitch Rahmanullah Gurbaz on the prime of the order. In three matches in IPL 2023, Gurbaz had three fully completely different opening companions.
PITCH REPORT
Eden Gardens presents one factor for every fast bowlers and spinners. But with bigger dimensions, the number of boundaries couldn’t come as sometimes as one would love. One can anticipate early swing as will probably be barely humid sooner than dew comes throughout the later stage of the match. The sample on the venue has principally benefitted the chasing side.
PREDICTED PLAYING XIS
KKR: Jason Roy, N Jagadeesan (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy.
SRH: Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Mayank Markande, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik.