Kolkata Knight Riders will begin their IPL 2024 campaign against Sunrisers Hyderabad this Saturday. The two-time IPL winners were far from their best in the previous year’s campaign. KKR finished in seventh place in 2023, missing out on the playoffs. They had secured just six wins in 14 games. KKR played their last game against the Lucknow Super Giants and conceded a narrow 1-run defeat. With Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc’s arrival to the Shah Rukh Khan-co-owned franchise this season, KKR will likely see some changes in the squad’s mentality and approach. Former skipper Gautam Gambhir will also play an important role in the 2024 campaign as the squad’s new mentor.
KKR’s tournament opener against SRH will be played at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata on March 23. SRH will be pumped to compete in the upcoming season with Australia skipper Pat Cummins at their helm. Given that Cummins has been a crucial part of KKR in the last decade while also winning the trophy with the side in 2014, his tournament opener could be a spicy affair. SRH performed quite poorly in 2023, finishing in last place with just four wins in 14 games. They will now be looking to start their tournament on a winning note.
In the third match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will take on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Predicted XI
Bat 1st: Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Washington Sundar, Abdul Samad, Sanvir Singh, Pat Cummins, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Jaydev Unadkat
Bowl 1st: Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Washington Sundar, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Jaydev Unadkat
Impact Player Options: Sanvir Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Abdul Samad
Kolkata Knight Riders Predicted XI
Bat 1st: Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Arora
Bowl 1st: Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Arora
Impact Player Options: Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana
KKR vs SRH DREAM ELEVEN PREDICTION
WICKET KEEPERS
Heinrich Klaasen, Phil Salt
BATTERS
Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Abhishek Sharma
ALL ROUNDERS
Andre Russell, Aiden Markram
BOWLERS
Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma
Team Composition: KKR 6-5 SRH | Credits Left: 10
SQUADS
KKR: Shreyas Iyer (c), Srikar Bharat, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ramandeep Singh , Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Vaibhav Arora, Dushmantha Chameera, Harshit Rana, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sakib Hussain, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Philip Salt
SRH: Jaydev Unadkat, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Pat Cummins (c), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Glenn Phillips, Nitish Reddy, Marco Jansen, Abhishek Sharma, Upendra Yadav, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Abdul Samad, Akash Maharaj Singh, Wanindu Hasaranga
