Big image – will KKR’s batting get up?
Even if Knight Riders cannot replicate that efficiency, they are going to be hoping to place up a greater present in entrance of their dwelling crowd.
Team news – RCB with out Topley
Roy will be part of Knight Riders in time for Sunday’s recreation in Ahmedabad, and Litton Das will fly in from Dhaka after the continued Test in opposition to Ireland. Lockie Ferguson, who missed their first recreation as properly, continues to be bowling with half a run-up within the nets and is unlikely to play.
Toss and Impact Player technique
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Royal Challengers did not have to make use of the Impact Player rule of their convincing win in opposition to Mumbai. If they bat second like they did that day, they’ll usher in one other batter like Suyash Prabhudessai or Anuj Rawat instead of Akash Deep or Mohammed Siraj, and do the alternative whereas batting first.
Probable bat-first XI: 1 Faf du Plessis (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Glenn Maxwell, 4 Michael Bracewell, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Suyash Prabhudessai, 7 Shahbaz Ahmed, 8 Harshal Patel, 9 Akash Deep, 10 David Willey, 11 Karn Sharma
Probable bowl-first XI: 1 Faf du Plessis (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Glenn Maxwell, 4 Michael Bracewell, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Shahbaz Ahmed, 7 Harshal Patel, 8 Akash Deep, 9 David Willey, 10 Karn Sharma, 11 Mohammed Siraj
Kolkata Knight Riders
While batting second in opposition to Kings, they subbed out Varun to usher in Venkatesh Iyer within the chase, they usually may follow an analogous technique on this recreation as properly. Batting first, they may begin with an additional batter with Russell slotted at No. 7 and Narine at 8, and sub out Mandeep Singh for a bowler to retain Venkatesh’s bowling possibility for the second innings. In both case, they may additionally play Kulwant Khejroliya as an alternative of Shardul Thakur, who leaked 43 within the first recreation, with sufficient batting depth.
Possible bat-first XI: 1 Mandeep Singh, 2 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 3 Anukul Roy, 4 Venkatesh Iyer, 5 Nitish Rana (capt), 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Andre Russell, 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Shardul Thakur/Kulwant Khejroliya, 10 Umesh Yadav, 11 Tim Southee
Possible bowl-first XI: 1 Mandeep Singh, 2 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 3 Anukul Roy, 4 Venkatesh Iyer, 5 Nitish Rana (capt), 6 Andre Russell, 7 Sunil Narine, 8 Shardul Thakur/Kulwant Khejroliya, 9 Varun Chakravarthy, 10 Umesh Yadav, 11 Tim Southee
Stats that matter – Tie Kohli up with spin
- Maxwell, Kohli and du Plessis do not have nice strike charges in opposition to Narine within the IPL. Maxwell’s stands at 101.75 (58 off 57 balls), Kohli’s at 103.06 (101 off 98) and du Plessis’ at 80 (36 off 45 balls)
- On the opposite hand, Kohli loves hitting out in opposition to the India quicks within the Knight Riders squad. He has hit Umesh Yadav for 150 runs off 85 balls and Thakur for 67 off 42. So do not be shocked in the event that they introduce Narine early in opposition to Kohli and du Plessis.
- Russell goes to play his a hundredth IPL recreation and Narine his a hundred and fiftieth, and it will likely be in entrance of the Knight Riders dwelling crowd.
Pitch and situations – Home drawback
The development at Eden Gardens within the IPL has largely been to chase. The pitch normally has one thing for the quicks and spinners each, and the larger dimensions imply boundaries might not come as usually as they did for Kohli and du Plessis on the Chinnaswamy Stadium a couple of days in the past. It’s anticipated to be barely humid with temperatures within the late 20s within the night, and a few early swing and dew later as traditional.
Quotes
“One cannot be judgmental after only one game. Even in the last game, we were in the game till the end and it was unfortunate [that we lost]. I’m pretty confident about the side we have.”
Knight Riders head coach Chandrakant Pandit
Vishal Dikshit is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo
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