Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) lock horns with defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) as Hardik Pandya won the toss and elected to bowl first in their Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata on Saturday (April 29).
“We will bowl first. Just because of the weather, it was bright and we thought we should bat, but it has changed now. I'm pretty happy with where we are, 7 games gone, 7 more to come, we need to play good cricket and qualify for the playoffs. We are playing the same team,” GT captain Hardik said after winning the toss.
“We would have batted first, DLS could come into the equation, but we would still have batted first. There are always areas where we can improve, we have had some forced changes - Jason Roy has a back issue, he's replaced by Gurbaz. Harshit Rana replaces Umesh Yadav,” KKR skipper Nitish Rana said after the toss.
Head-to-Head
In head-to-head clashes in Indian Premier League, KKR and GT have played 2 games so far, one in the ongoing season and the other during last season. Both teams have won one game each.
Pitch Report
“We're playing on pitch number 6. Almost identical square boundaries at 63 and 64m, the straight boundary is a bit longer at 74m and the pockets at 70m. The surface looks superb, there is a bit of rough and a bit of breeze blowing acrss, but it's a good batting surface once again,” Daren Ganga and Matthew Hayden analysed the pitch.
Gujarat Titans (Playing XI): Wriddhiman Saha(w), Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya(c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Joshua Little.
Subs: Shubman Gill, Srikar Bharat, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Shivam Mavi, Jayant Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): N Jagadeesan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Shardul Thakur, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Subs: Suyash Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya.
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