KKR is sitting at 2nd place in the points table. Will Delhi be able to clinch 2 points from KKR in today’s IPL match?
In the last match of KKR against PBKS, Phil Salt and Sunil Narine opened the game for Kolkata Knight Riders and started off with a hitting big boundaries and they both quickly made their fifties. Phil Salt scored his half-centuries in 25 balls with 6 fours and 6 sixes and Sunil Narine scored his half-centuries in 23 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes.
But then the clutch from Jonny took the game from the KKR to PBKS. He single handedly snatched the win and score his century against KKR hitting 108 runs in 48 balls with most number of sixes in the whole match. This match was also so talked about because both the team hit 42 sixes in single match which is a record in the IPL.
| Match Venue | Eden Gardens |
| Match Timing | 7:30 P.M. |
On the other hand, Delhi Capitals is also going very aggressively in this IPL. In the last match against Mumbai Indians, Delhi showered his wrath on MI bowlers. Jake Fraser-McGurk who is a young Australian player took the powerplay to a next level scoring 84 runs in 25 balls and elevate the score card for Delhi Capitals by a big margin.
Pant, Shai Hope took the responsibility and hit bug boundaries for the team and this is how they dominate the game and won it. The bowling department of Delhi Capitals improved a lot from the previous matches and this is why they are able to have a strong hold over the game. Today at Eden Gardens, We will whether Delhi will move ahead in race of playoffs OR not.
Lets’s look at the playing 11 of Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals
| Playing 11 of Kolkata Knight Riders | Playing 11 of Delhi Capitals |
| Phil Salt (WK) | David Warner |
| Sunil Narine | Rishabh Pant (C) (WK) |
| Angkrish Raghuvanshi | Prithvi Shaw |
| Shreyas Iyer (C) | Axar Patel |
| Venkatesh Iyer | Abishek Porel |
| Andre Russell | Mukesh Kumar |
| Anukul Roy | Mitchell Marsh |
| Mitchell Starc | Ishant Sharma |
| Vaibhav Arora | Kkalil Ahmad |
| Rinku Singh | Anrich Nortje |
| Ramandeep Singh | Tristan Stubbs |
Team Analysis of Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders has been very aggressive from the beginning of the IPL. Brnadon McCullum begin the IPL with his 150 runs, giving one of the best opening to one of the most loved leagues of all time. From then KKR has seen and made one of the best players that were and are a part of Indian Cricket Team. Rinku Singh in the last 2023 season and this season Angkrish Raghuvanshi performed with a blast.
The batting lineup of Kolkata is one of the strongest from top to middle order the team is ready to face any bowler. The bowling lineup of the KKR is very comprehensive with spinners, pacers to medium fast bowlers. This makes the built of overall team a comprehensive to play in any pitch and in any condition. This is the foremost reason of their consistent winning in this IPL.
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
Batters
Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Manish Pandey, and Angkrish Raghuvanshi.
Bowlers
Suyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Mitchell Starc, and Chetan Sharma.
All-Rounders
Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, and Venkatesh Iyer.
Team Analysis of Delhi Capitals
The 2024 IPL for Delhi Capitals is all about the comeback of Rishabh Pant after a horrific accident. Delhi Capitals have the best players in both batting and bowling lineup. With Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, and Prithvi Shaw. Even though Pant has not played last year but still he is performing like a seasoned player.Last year Mitchell Marsh and Prithvi Shaw struggled but this year they are also very aggressively playing.The bowling lineup of Delhi Capitals is very promising with Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmad, Mukesh Kumar, and Anrich Nortje.
The top order batsman are amazing and even to the five holer they have a strong lineup but after 6th place they don’t have a strong batsman who could handle the pressure of run chase after 5 wickets down. In the last match, Pant took the responsibility of the batting order and helped the team to clinched their narrow win.
Similarly, in the bowling department Khaleel Ahmad is doing great job at bowling and fielding. But the players like Ishant Sharma and Anrich Nortje is not able to take as much as wickets they should take which in result increase pressure on the team. But they still have the opportunity to comeback in the game and in today’s match we will see whether they take this opportunity OR not.
Delhi Capitals Squad for IPL 2024
Batters
Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Shai Hope, Swastik Chhikara, Abishek Porel, Harry Brook, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, and Tristan Stubbs.
Bowlers
Pravin Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Jake Fraser-Mcgurk, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Jhye Richardson, Mukesh Kumar, and Rasikh Dar.
All-Rounders
Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, and Sumit Kumar.
Pitch & Weather Report
Eden Gardens is the home ground of Kolkata Knight Riders. The pitch of Eden Gardens is mostly batting friendly. Having a flat surface and the bounce allow the batsman to hit big strokes. It is good pitch not just for batting but as well as for bowling especially for spinners. But only under the sunlight helps the pitch dry up and the seam is perfectly connecting with the pitch.The weather of Eden Gardens ranges between 32 degree in the day to 29 degree Celsius in the night. Having a close proximity to sea lead to increase in humidity from 68% at 7 P.M. to 88% at 11 P.M.
Where can you watch the live match
You can live stream today’s KKR vs RCB exclusively on JioCinema. For our Television audience they can watch it on Star Sports Network. You can also watch live score on our cricoworld website and also on official website of IPL.
Match Umpires
The on-field umpires of today’s match are Navdeep Singh and Tapan Balwant Sharma. The third umpire is Nikhil Patwardhan.
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