Kolkata Knight Riders vs Lucknow Super Giants: Kolkata Knight Riders will host Lucknow Super Giants today. The match will be held at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 20 May 2023 from 7:30 PM onwards. Nitish Rana will be led by Kolkata Knight Riders. Lucknow Super Giants will be captained by Krunal Pandya.
Match: IPL 2023 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Lucknow Super Giants
Time: 7:30 PM IST
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Pitch Report: The Eden Gardens is batters-centric. The flat surface helps the batters to score shots. The pitch is also assistive for slow bowlers. As per the recent match results defending a high score is a challenging task here. However, the team winning the match will probably choose to bowl first.
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Lucknow Super Giants-The Squad
Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana(c),Johnson Charles(wk), Narayan Jagadeesan(wk), Aarya Desai, Jason Roy, Mandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Anukal Roy, David Wiese, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Harshit Rana, Kulwant Khejroliya, Lockie Ferguson, Shardul Thakur, Suyush Sharma, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Lucknow Super Giants: Krunal Pandya(c), Nicholas Pooran(wk), Quinton de Kock(wk), Ayush Badoni, Karun Nair, Manan Vohra, Suryansh Shedge, Daniel Sams, Deepak Hooda, Karan Sharma, Krishnappa Gowtham, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Prerak Mankad, Romario Shepherd, Swapnil Singh, Amit Mishra, Arpit Guleria, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Mohsin Khan, Naveen-ul-Haq, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Yudhvir Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Lucknow Super Giants -Team performance in the past matches
The 68th match of the IPL is all set to host at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns against the Lucknow Super Giants today. Both teams are heading the match, after snatching a striking victory in their previous matches. Here, the second-batting team has a strong record. On this pitch, they have consistently had a 60 percent winning rate.
Kolkata Knight Riders had a remarkable performance this season. They had experienced several wins and losses throughout the season. In their last encounter, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets. KKR chased down the 145 runs target with 6 balls. Captain Nitish Rana scored 57 runs in 44 balls to hike his team’s scoreboard. Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine helped KKR to restrict CSK to 144/6 in 20 overs. Devon Conway and Ravindra Jadeja are the other two main players who added runs to the total. Chennai Super Kings also tried a lot to score the target but they failed in the attempt.
Lucknow Super Giants had an exhilarating performance this season. They played their last home encounter with Mumbai Indians and won the match by 5 runs. Chasing a target of 177 Mumbai Indians could manage to score only 172/5 in 20 overs. While LSG’s Marcus Stoinis scored 89 runs in 47 balls. Krunal Pandya Scored 49 runs in 42 balls and achieved a total of 177/3 in 20 overs.
The match will begin at 7.30, set your team before the beginning!
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Wicket-keeper: Nicholas Pooran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Batters: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer
All-Rounders: Marcus Stoinis, Andre Russell, Krunal Pandya
Bowlers: Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq
Captain: Marcus Stoinis
Vice-Captain: Nitish Rana
Wicket-keeper: Nicholas Pooran, Quinton de Kock
Batters: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Ayush Badoni
All-Rounders: Marcus Stoinis, Andre Russell, Krunal Pandya
Bowlers: Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Suyush Sharma
Captain: Varun Chakaravarthy
Vice-Captain: Nitish Rana
