Match Preview - KKR vs PBKS forty second Match, IPL

Match particulars

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR; 2nd place) vs Punjab Kings (PBKS; ninth place)
Eden Gardens, Kolkata, 7:30pm IST (2pm GMT)

Large image – Greatest bowling aspect at batters’ paradise

Punjab Kings (PBKS) have many points to unravel, however regardless of IPL 2024 being dominated by batters, bowling isn’t one in all them.

PBKS are the one aspect to not concede 200 or extra in an innings but – 199, twice, is essentially the most scored in opposition to them. Their bowling common of 24.94 is the perfect amongst all of the groups this season, with Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) 25.47 subsequent in line. On the dying (overs 17 to twenty), PBKS have struck 23 occasions, essentially the most by a workforce in IPL 2024, and their common in that part (15.73) is once more the perfect. They’ve been the third-most economical bowling workforce (8.98) this season too.

Now they’re at a venue – Eden Gardens – the place 200 has been crossed in each innings in three of the 4 matches up to now. It has been the venue with the third-highest scoring charge (10.43) this season, with Hyderabad (10.92) and Delhi (11.48) forward.

All of which brings the PBKS batters into sharp focus. They’re the second-slowest scoring workforce (with a strike charge of 137.31) and now have the second-lowest batting common (23.84). None of their batters have totalled 200 but, regardless that 24 batters have crossed the mark – Shashank Singh with 195 runs is their main scorer.

KKR haven’t been a simple aspect to both rating in opposition to or bowl to this season. They’re favourites right here. So PBKS have to attain greater than they’ve up to now and count on the bowlers to do what they’ve been doing, in KKR’s den. To not overlook, PBKS have solely gained three of their 12 video games – just one within the final eight – at Eden Gardens.

Type information

KKR WLWLW (final 5 matches, most up-to-date first)
PBKS LLLLW

Group information and affect participant technique

Kolkata Knight Riders: KKR have subbed out a batter for a quick bowler or a spinner, relying on the situations and the state of affairs of the sport, in every sport. Normally, Rinku Singh has not been used within the fielding innings, with one in all Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy and Suyash Sharma introduced in. Count on them to proceed with that.

Possible XII: 1 Phil Salt (wk), 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Angkrish Raghuvanshi, 4 Venkatesh Iyer, 5 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Andre Russell, 8 Ramandeep Singh, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Harshit Rana, 12 Suyash Sharma/Vaibhav Arora

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan will solely be match for PBKS’ subsequent sport, based on spin-bowling coach Sunil Joshi. Whether or not which means Sam Curran opens once more or one in all Rilee Rossouw and Jonny Bairstow companions Prabhsimran Singh is anyone’s guess.

Possible XII: 1 Prabhsimran Singh, 2 Rilee Rossouw/Jonny Bairstow, 3 Sam Curran (capt), 4 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Shashank Singh, 7 Ashutosh Sharma, 8 Harpreet Brar, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Kagiso Rabada, 11 Arshdeep Singh, 12 Harpreet Singh

Within the highlight – Mitchell Starc and Harshal Patel

Of all of the IPL grounds, the poorest economic system charge (13.50) when quick bowlers bowl full underneath lights is at Eden Gardens. It is the venue Mitchell Starc, who likes to swing the ball from fuller lengths, has to name house in IPL 2024, and his returns have mirrored these stats. His greatest efficiency this season – 3 for 28 in opposition to Lucknow Tremendous Giants – got here in Kolkata whereas bowling first in a day sport. Starc’s economic system charge this season – 11.48 – is the poorest amongst bowlers who’ve bowled a minimum of 25 overs, and is the poorest for any bowler to have bowled a minimum of 20 overs within the first seven video games of an IPL season. Most costly in additional methods than one, Starc has to stay as much as his repute at some stage.

Harshal Patel had a forgettable begin to IPL 2024 – 4 wickets at a mean of over 45 and an economic system charge of 11.31 within the first 4 video games. However since then, he has returned 9 wickets – seven of these on the dying – at a mean of a shade underneath 11 and an economic system of seven.46. He has been efficient together with his adjustments of tempo in addition to angles, and has bowled in every of the three phases within the final 4 matches. About 80% of his wickets are of right-hand batters, and KKR have loads of them, together with Andre Russell – Harshal has dismissed him twice in 26 balls in all T20s.

Pitch and situations

The KKR batters, particularly the openers, have thrived on the high-scoring pitches in Kolkata. Count on an analogous floor on Friday. Quick bowlers have had an economic system of 10.74 in Kolkata versus the spinners’ 9.31, and plenty of that has to do with the success of Sunil Narine (16 overs, six wickets, economic system 6.25) and Varun Chakravarthy (16 overs, 5 wickets, economic system 9.81).

Stats that matter

Narine’s 33 wickets in opposition to Kings are essentially the most for him in opposition to a single opponent within the IPL. He averages 19.90 in opposition to them and has an economic system of seven.06
Within the IPL, Shreyas Iyer has scored 12 off 5 balls in opposition to Kagiso Rabada, however in all T20s, it is 19 off 21. Nevertheless, Rabada has by no means dismissed Iyer
Russell vs Curran is a correct cat-and-mouse sport. Russell strikes at 221.4 in opposition to Curran for 3 dismissals in 28 balls in all T20s. Curran additionally provides it again: 39 runs in 21 balls for one dismissal in opposition to Russell in T20s.

Quotes

“I’ll get to bowl when the chance arises, I’m engaged on my bowling. The Influence Participant rule is such that using the allrounder is lowered. Each workforce needs to bowl with their predominant quick bowlers.”
KKR allrounder Ramandeep Singh

“Jitesh is a high quality batter, and we all know that the time has come for him to fireplace. There are a number of gamers within the IPL, who’re wanting to be a part of India’s T20 World Cup squad. For a lot of the gamers, making it to the Indian workforce will hold haunting them. So deal with the fundamentals. You have to carry out and take it ball-by-ball, go away choice to the individuals who determine.”
PBKS spin-bowling coach Sunil Joshi‘s message to Jitesh Sharma

S Sudarshanan is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @Sudarshanan7

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Match Preview – KKR vs PBKS forty second Match, IPL