KKR vs SRH HIGHLIGHTS, IPL 2020: KKR Beat SRH By 7 Wickets To Win Their First Match In IPL 13
Sunrisers have won the toss and despite the dew factor they have decided to bat first! Both SRH and KKR come into the game after defeats against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians respectively and are placed at the bottom of the points table after the culmination of week one in IPL 13.
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The usual openers for Sunrisers Hyderabad have come out to open the innings; David Warner and Jonny Bairstow. For KKR, their opening batsman Sunil Narine opens the attack. Sunrisers Hyderabad have won the toss and opted to bat first against Kolkata Knight Riders at Abu Dhabi. Three changes in the SRH squad. 2-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will lock horns with 2016 winners SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Game 8 of the Indian Premier League slated to be played at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi later on Saturday.
Both SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) who come into the game after defeats against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians respectively are placed at the bottom of the points table after the culmination of week one at the IPL.
David Warner skippered SRH and Dinesh Karthik led KKR will look to get a win against their name and secure their first points of the season.
KKR would look to their opening duo of Shubman Gill and Sunil Narine to fire after they failed to get going against MI. KKR have plenty of firepower in their middle order with power hitters in Dinesh Karthik, Nitesh Rana, Andre Russell and Eoin Morgan. However, they will have to step up their game after a poor outing against defending champions Mumbai Indians.
KKR bowling unit fared dismally against RCB with their seamers being belted to all corners of the park. Pat Cummins was snapped by the team for a whopping Rs 15.5 crore will look for a much improved performance after being hammered for 49 runs from his three overs.
SRH who are heavily dependent on their trio of David Warner, Jonny Bairstow and Manish Pandey would need support from the middle order which looks relatively inexperienced after the injury to their all-rounder Mitchell Marsh.
Windies all-rounder Jason Holder who has replaced injured Mitchell Marsh could make the cut in the playing eleven to add depth and balance to the SRH squad.
SRH would look for a far better bowling performance by their bowling attack which looks well rounded. While pace spearhead Bhuvneshwar Kumar was pretty steady with his spell, Sandeep Sharma and T. Natarajan were erratic in their lines leaking too many runs against RCB.
Both KKR and SRH would look to their spinners to make the best of conditions at. With quality spinners like Sunil Narine and Kuldeep Yadav in KKR team and SRH having their world class tweaker in Rashid Khan, it could the battle of the spinners.
Here are the full squads for Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad
KKR: Dinesh Karthik (Captain), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Ali Khan, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Siddhesh Lad, Pat Cummins, Eoin Morgan, Tom Banton, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, M. Siddhartha, Nikhil Naik
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Billy Stanlake, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Mitchell Marsh, Sandeep Bavanaka, Fabian Allen, Abdul Samad, Sanjay Yadav, Chris Green
KKR vs SRH, Live Score | KKR are 102/3 after 14 overs and need 41 runs in 36 balls