Match particulars
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG)
Kolkata, 3.30pm IST (10am GMT)
Massive image – KKR’s residence run
Which IPL group has their headquarters solely six kilometres from Eden Gardens? When you’re pondering Kolkata Knight Riders, that is fallacious.
That honour belongs to Lucknow Tremendous Giants, whose homeowners are based mostly in Kolkata. They’ve a majority stake in one other native group with a powerful fan base – Mohun Bagan FC – and the final time they performed on the Eden Gardens, LSG turned out sporting that group’s iconic maroon, leaving native KKR followers break up over which color to root for.
Off-field developments apart, LSG are in a very good area with their six factors in 5 video games. Regardless of shedding to Delhi Capitals on Friday, they’re nonetheless within the prime 4 on the factors desk and can be happy with the coolness proven by Ayush Badoni and Arshad Khan to pull the facet from an insipid 94 for 7 to a last rating of 167. Their solely actual concern is Devdutt Padikkal’s type; he has scored solely 25 runs in 5 video games.
KKR had their first defeat of the season of their earlier recreation, in opposition to Chennai Tremendous Kings in Chennai. However like LSG, KKR are additionally in a cushty place, simply two factors behind table-toppers Rajasthan Royals and with a recreation in hand. Within the first leg of the schedule, they’d three away video games and gained two of these. The quirk of scheduling in an election yr now sees them based mostly at residence for his or her subsequent 5 fixtures, which implies, if they will exert dominance at residence the way in which CSK, Mumbai Indians or Gujarat Titans do, they may have one foot within the playoffs by the tip of it.
Type information
Kolkata Knight Riders: LWWW (IPL 2024; most up-to-date matches first)
Lucknow Tremendous Giants: LWWWL
Staff information and Impression Participant technique
Kolkata Knight Riders
Vice-captain Nitish Rana (hand harm) and seamer Harshit Rana (shoulder harm) have been noticed in coaching and will return. Nitish would doubtless exchange Ramandeep Singh.
Suyash Sharma is the doubtless affect participant, however they could use left-arm spinner Anukul Roy as an alternative if KKR want runs from a No. 9.
Doubtless XII: 1 Phil Salt (wk), 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Angkrish Raghuvanshi, 4 Venkatesh Iyer, 5 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 6 Ramandeep Singh/Nitish Rana, 7 Andre Russell, 8 Rinku Singh, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Vaibhav Arora/Harshit Rana, 11 Varun Chakravarthy, 12 Suyash Sharma
Lucknow Tremendous Giants
Padikkal is near shedding his place and Deepak Hooda is already on the bench attributable to poor type. Which means, one in every of Arshin Kulkarni, Yudhvir Singh or Prerak Mankad could play if LSG wish to preserve the identical abroad quartet. There are extra artistic choices if LSG drop an abroad batter or Naveen-ul-Haq, just like the inclusion of Shamar Joseph to make up for Mayank Yadav’s absence. Each Mayank (hip harm) and Mohsin Khan (shoulder harm) are unavailable.
Spinner M Siddharth is the likeliest affect participant instead of Quinton de Kock.
Doubtless XII: 1 Quinton de Kock, 2 KL Rahul (capt, wk), 3 Devdutt Padikkal/Prerak Mankad, 4 Marcus Stoinis, 5 Nicholas Pooran, 6 Krunal Pandya, 7 Ayush Badoni, 8 Ravi Bishnoi, 9 Arshad Khan, 10 Naveen-ul-Haq, 11 Yash Thakur, 12 M Siddharth
Within the highlight – Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul
Shreyas Iyer has two scores within the 30s however he hasn’t been at his fluent greatest. He has additionally been dismissed completely by left-arm seamers – Mustafizur Rahman, Khaleel Ahmed and T Natarajan – so Arshad could possibly be an early match-up in opposition to him. Shreyas might counterattack by dominating spinners from the opposite finish, however traditionally, he has struggled to place away Ravi Bishnoi and Krunal Pandya in T20s with strike charges of 117.64 and 90.47 respectively.
Strike charges and KL Rahul share a love-hate relationship however he seems to be altering his powerplay method. In his newest outing, Rahul made 30 off 14 in opposition to Capitals. By no means earlier than has he scored as many runs within the powerplay as an LSG participant. Will he proceed in the identical vein?
Stats that matter
- Mitchell Starc has dismissed Nicholas Pooran twice in 4 innings. Nevertheless, Pooran has dominated Andre Russell, hitting him for 105 runs in 69 balls, and Varun Chakravarthy, placing 51 runs in 29 balls.
- Ought to KKR bat Russell greater? Since IPL 2018, his entry level has not made a lot distinction to his strike fee. It’s 182.2 when coming into after the 14th over, and 177.6 when he is available in earlier than the tenth, and 173.3 when he is available in between overs 10 and 14.
- Bishnoi loves dealing with KKR. His 9 wickets are his highest in opposition to any group, and he has a beneficial common (19.2) and financial system (6.40) too.
Pitch and circumstances
With a day begin and temperatures anticipated to cross 35°C on the time of the toss, fielding within the first innings will probably be excruciating. Nevertheless, chasing might nonetheless be the choice as historic numbers recommend, along with the potential of drizzle within the night. Anticipate a number of runs.
Quotes
“They know me as nicely (smiles). Initially, everybody is aware of one another very nicely. It is extra about how we play for 3 and a half hours within the subject is extra essential. It isn’t like I’ll plan one thing totally different for them. Even they know rather a lot about me. I’ve deliberate in opposition to KKR for the final two seasons so it is in all probability even-stevens. It is the very best group that wins not the group that plans greatest.”
KKR mentor Gautam Gambhir says his previous position at LSG doesn’t give KKR any edge
“He [Mayank] is feeling good. He seems good however we don’t wish to rush him. We have to shield his physique. However he is itching to go. Must guarantee that he’s 100% match earlier than he comes again.”
LSG captain KL Rahul gave an replace on his quick bowler after the Capitals recreation
Sreshth Shah is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @sreshthx