Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) lock horns with Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) as Nitish Rana won the toss and elected to bowl first in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023's clash at the iconic Eden Gardens stadium on Saturday (May 20).
“Will bowl first. Need to win by a big margin, want to play positively. Rinku has been one of the positives. Have done well in patches in other areas as well. Roy has given some good starts. There's Suyash who's done well too. Same team,” KKR skipper Rana said after winning the toss.
“We would've also fielded first. At the end of the day, you have to play good cricket. We know where we stand in the table. Our destiny is in our hands. Focus is on playing good cricket. We defended really well in previous game. Eventually what matters is how we come today, put a total on the board and defend it. Couple of changes - instead of Hooda, we have Karan. And Gowtham comes in for Swapnil,” LSG captain Krunal Pandya said after the toss.
Head-to-Head
Matches Played - 2
Matches won by Kolkata Knight Riders - 0
Matches won by Lucknow Super Giants - 2
Matches with No Result - 0
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Kolkata Knight Riders Subs: Suyash Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, N Jagadeesan, David Wiese
Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Karan Sharma, Prerak Mankad, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Krunal Pandya(c), Ayush Badoni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan.
Lucknow Super Giants Subs: Kyle Mayers, Yash Thakur, Daniel Sams, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Deepak Hooda,
MORE ON SPORTS TAK:
David Warner leaves Ravindra Jadeja in splits by copying his sword celebration in comical attempt to prevent run out
Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad become fastest opening pair to score 1,000 runs for CSK in IPL history, only behind two pairs overall
