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Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL Match Today: Shreyas Iyer’s Kolkata Knight Riders will face Pat Cummins’ Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League 2024 final at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium. While the former thrashed SRH in Qualifier 1, Pat Cummins’ team went the longer road, defeating Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2.
KKR has stood out from the other teams in the tournament, with big hitters throughout the batting order and mystery spinners in the bowling department. SRH, on the other hand, has relied largely on Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma at the top of the order to produce runs, but their bowling is much more varied.
Playing XI prediction for KKR: Sunil Narine, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy
Impact substitute: Anukul Roy/Nitish Rana
Player to watch out for in KKR Sunil Narine has had a remarkable campaign so far. He has reinvented himself as an opener again this season and also has delivered the goods with the ball. The game between SRH and RR has shown the pitch is assisting the spinners hence which makes his role doubly important up at the top to maximise the powerplay for KKR and restrict SRH’s middle order.
Playing XI prediction for SRH: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan
Impact substitute: Shahbaz Ahmed/Umran Malik
Player to watch out for in SRH Heinrich Klassen after starting the tournament has tapered off in the second half. However, after Head and Abhishek, Klassen is the next player who has been able to take the opposition on. KKR has both Chakarvarthy and Narine in there who can pose trouble in middle overs and can countered by Klassen if he is on song.
SRH vs KKR head-to-head in IPL
Matches played: 27, Kolkata Knight Riders: 18, Sunrisers Hyderabad: 9
Squads:
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Jaydev Unadkat, Shahbaz Ahmed, Umran Malik, Tanvir Singh, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Markande, Mayank Agarwal, Washington Sundar, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, Srikar Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford, Dushmantha Chameera, Chetan Sakariya, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sakib Hussain, Suyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar
KKR vs SRH pitch report
Unlike the previous game, the soil used for this surface is red which traditionally tends to offer more bounce. Once again the dilemma both captains would have at toss is deciding what to do. If there is no dew the pitch would get increasingly slower and make chasing and if there is dew it might be the other way around.
KKR vs SRH weather report
The maximum temperature today in Chennai is expected to be 37 degrees centigrade and the lower temperature is 31 degree centigrade. While the Accuweather also predicts there might be thick cloud cover it remains to be seen if rain plays any part tonight.
