Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will sq. off in opposition to one another for one final within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 on Saturday night time. It’s going to be a battle of equals on the MCA Stadium in Pune as either side have 10 factors of their respective kitties. Whichever facet crosses the end line tonight, will stay alive within the competition for the playoffs.
Meanwhile, KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer received the toss and opted to bat in opposition to the Sunrisers. The Knight Riders received’t be having the companies of Australia pacer Pat Cummins, who has flown again residence. In his absence, Umesh Yadav has received a spot within the line-up. At the identical time, Sam Billings returns to the combo to interchange Sheldon Jackson.
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“We will bat first here. If you the record here, teams batting first have done well and batting first also suits us. Forced to make changes this time. Pat is injured, so Umesh comes in and Sam Billings comes in for Sheldon Jackson. We had ups and downs, so we did a lot of changes. It’s not something we wanted to and if you see the form of the batters, we had to make those changes. We came to the core strength we started with and we got a good start in the previous game, both batting and bowling,” Shreyas Iyer mentioned on the toss.
Sunrisers, then again, have made three huge modifications. T Natarajan and all-rounder Washington Sundar are again within the XI. Marco Jansen additionally comes again rather than Fazalhaq Farooqi.
“We have played on this surface the other day and we were looking to bat as well. Natarajan and Washington are back. Jansen is back in for Farooqi as well. We haven’t been quite at our best in the last few games. So we want to turn that around. Nice to have a couple of good performers back in the side,” mentioned SRH captain Kane Williamson.
Here are the enjoying XIs:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer(c), Sam Billings(w), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Kane Williamson(c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran(w), Shashank Singh, Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik.
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