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Match Details
- Date: May 21, 2024
- Time: 7:30 PM IST
- Venue: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
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Preview
The Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in Qualifier 1 of the IPL 2024 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. After finishing on top of the points table in the league stage, KKR are the in-form team in the IPL with their batting, bowling, and fielding departments delivering the goods more often than not. On the other hand, the SunRisers Hyderabad have been playing explosive cricket right throughout the IPL 2024, especially with the bat in hand, which will hold them in good stead for the remainder of the tournament.
Pitch Report
The pitches at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad have been very good for batting right throughout the IPL with one indifferent game where the home team were bundled out for under 100. With that, the average first innings score of 168 at this venue in the history of the IPL, might not be enough to defend for either KKR or SRH during the Qualifier 1 of the IPL 2024.
Team Analysis
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders batting lineup is quite a settled unit with the likes of Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, and Shreyas Iyer amongst the runs, even though they didn’t get the chance to give a hit out to Rahmanullah Gurbaz, the replacement of Phil Salt because the rain washed out their last two matches in the IPL 2024. On the bowling side of things, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy have been exceptional right throughout the tournament, while the likes of Harshit Rana, Mitchell Starc, and Andre Russell have chipped in with key wickets as well.
IPL 2024 Squad of Kolkata Knight Riders
Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Allah Ghazanfar, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain. Players injured/withdrawn: Jason Roy, Gus Atkinson, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Phil Salt.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
The opening pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma has been a massive strength for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024, while the likes of Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, and Shahbaz Ahmed have played important innings for them from time to time in the tournament. The captain Pat Cummins has been exceptional with the ball for SRH, while the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan have been amongst the wickets for them in the tournament.
IPL 2024 Squad of Sunrisers Hyderabad
Pat Cummins (c), Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Heinrich Klaasen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, T. Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markande, Upendra Singh Yadav, Umran Malik, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Travis Head, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth. Players injured/withdrawn: Wanindu Hasaranga
Match Prediction
Conclusion
Kolkata Knight Riders will have a slight edge over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024 Qualifier 1 because they have a more all-round unit delivering more consistent results than their upcoming opponents.
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