Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians IPL Match Today: High-flying Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) led by Shreyas Iyer will lock horns against a struggling Mumbai Indians (MI) captained by Hardik Pandya in Match No 60 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens on Saturday.
Sitting at the top of the 10-team standings with eight wins from 11 matches, another win will guarantee them the playoff berth as the Shah Rukh Khan-owned franchise will look to end on a high, its campaign at the home venue. Meanwhile, MI, who are languishing at the bottom of the points table will be looking to salvage some pride after a terrible season.
KKR predicted XI vs MI: Phil Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana
Impact Sub: Vaibhav Arora
Players to watch out for KKR: With 32 sixes to his name, Narine is also the second in the list behind Abhishek Sharma (35). The consistency with which Narine keeps churning out high scores match after match has been phenomenal. With one century and three fifties, the Trinidadian has also been their leading run-getter, amassing 461 runs at a strike-rate of 183.66.
MI predicted XI vs KKR: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Anshul Kamboj, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara
Impact Sub: Piyush Chawla
Player to watch out for Mumbai Indians: Fresh from his knocks of 56 and 102 not out, Suryakumar Yadav has been in scintillating form which augurs well for Team India ahead of the T20 World cup in less than a month.
Matches played: 33, MI won: 23, KKR: 10
Matches played: 10, MI won: 7, KKR won: 3
Matches played: 87, Won: 51, Lost: 36, Tied: 1
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (c), KS Bharat (wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Gus Atkinson, Allah Ghazanfar and Phil Salt
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Jasprit Bumrah, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Tim David, Shreyas Gopal, Ishan Kishan (wk), Anshul Kamboj, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka, Mohammad Nabi, Shams Mulani, Naman Dhir, Shivalik Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Arjun Tendulkar, Nuwan Thushara, Tilak Varma, Harvik Desai (wk), Nehal Wadhera and Luke Wood
More rain is expected on Saturday, so chances of a curtailed game or even a washout can’t be ruled out.
The Kolkata wicket has been a batting paradise this season with highest total being chased in IPL history here by KKR. The dew might also play a role in the night due to humidity.
The KKR vs MI IPL match will be streamed on the JioCinema App and telecast on the Star Sports Network on May 11, Saturday from 7:30 PM IST.
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