New Delhi: The battle for the playoffs has turned interesting ahead of the crucial week in IPL 2022. The 61st match of the league will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Saturday.
This is the second time this year that both the teams are going to take on each other. In their previous game, Hyderabad had defeated Kolkata by 7 wickets.
Now Kolkata will take the field to avenge their defeat in the forthcoming match as well as keep the playoff hopes alive. On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad would also like to present the claim in the top-4 by securing 2 points.
On the points table, Hyderabad is in 6th position and Kolkata is on 7th position. Here we have brought some crucial details in the pretext of the upcoming match between KKR vs SRH on May 14.
Probable Playing XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders
Shreyas Iyer(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Sheldon Jackson/Sam Billings(w), Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Kane Williamson(c), Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran(w), Shashank Singh, Washington Sundar, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik
Playing XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders
Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sheldon Jackson(w), Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy, Umesh Yadav, Sam Billings, Aaron Finch, Mohammad Nabi, Chamika Karunaratne, Baba Indrajith, Anukul Roy, Shivam Mavi, Pratham Singh, Abhijeet Tomar, Aman Hakim Khan, Ashok Sharma, Ramesh Kumar, Harshit Rana
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Abhishek Sharma, Kane Williamson(c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran(w), Jagadeesha Suchith, Shashank Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Abdul Samad, Sushant Mishra, Romario Shepherd, Priyam Garg, Vishnu Vinod, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, T Natarajan, Shreyas Gopal, Ravikumar Samarth, Sean Abbott
My Dream11 team
Nicholas Pooran (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Abhishek Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Aiden Markram (VC), Rahul Tripathi, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine (C), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy
