Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to chase against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Qualifier II of the 11th edition of the Indian Premier League at the Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata.
Sunrisers Hyderabad have made massive changes to their playing XI with Manish Pandey, Shreevats Goswami and Sandeep Sharma sitting out and making way for Deepak Hooda, Wriddhiman Saha and Khaleel Ahmed
While Kolkata Knight Riders have dropped Javon Searles from the playing XI. They will take the field with just 3 foreign nationals. Shivam Mavi has been included as a replacement for Searles.
Squads
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Deepak Hooda, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Carlos Brathwaite, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Siddarth Kaul, K Khaleel Ahmed
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi