KKR to play against KXIP today on home ground- Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Match - KXIP vs KKR

Venue - Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Indian Premier League 2019 Season 12 will witness a great match today. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR Team) will compete on their home ground against Kings XI team. Both have a strong team and in a situation where one team has Andre Russell and other has Chris Gayle, it is easy to guess that the match would turn out to be splendid. This is the second match of the tournament for both the team.

Both Kolkata and Punjab have won their respective first matches. However, on the basis of net run rate, Punjab is second and Kolkata is at number four. The match will be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Team News

Kolkata Knight Riders: Narine's finger injury, that prevented the team from opening with their gunplay as a precautionary measure, has healed and the Caribbean spinner was amongst the first few to roll their arm in the nets. In which case, do you still push Nitish Rana down the order despite how admirably he filled in? Rana himself made it clear that not opening with Narine on Sunday was a last-minute call, but his runs at the top of the order will please KKR should they need a tweak and/or a surprise element going forward in the tournament. For Wednesday, the team would likely stick with their winning combination.

Probable XI: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Dinesh Karthik (c/wk), Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna.

Kings XI Punjab: Though he bowled the game-changing 16th over in KXIP's defence of 184, Sam Curran was expensive for a frontline pacer. And if KXIP's pre-match optional nets are anything to go by, Tye is back and raring to reclaim his spot as the leader of their pace attack, as harsh as it might be on the Englishman. Miller and Karun were the other two star attractions and, by the looks of it, likely to walk into the playing XI. Nicholas Pooran and Mandeep Singh could likely be the ones making way, respectively.

Probable XI: Chris Gayle, KL Rahul (wk), Mayank Agarwal, Sarfaraz Khan, David Miller, Mandeep Singh/Karun Nair, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Andrew Tye, Mohammed Shami, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ankit Rajpoot

Squad-

KXIP squad: R Ashwin (C), Sam Curran, Varun Chakaravarthy, Mohammed Shami, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Hardus Viljoen, Darshan Nalkande, Sarfaraz Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet Brar, Murugan Ashwin, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, K L Rahul, Ankit Rajpoot, Mandeep Singh, Simran Singh, Mayank Agrawal, Karun Nair, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and David Miller.

KKR squad: Dinesh Karthik (c), Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Carlos Brathwaite, Sunil Narine, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Nikhil Naik, Joe Denly, Shrikant Mundhe, Nitish Rana, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Lockie Ferguson, Harry Gurney, KC Cariappa and Yarra Prithviraj.