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.
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KKR VS SRH Head To Head (Past 7 Matches)
2023 – SRH won by 23 runs
2023 – KKR won by 5 runs
2022 – SRH won by 7 wickets
2022 – KKR won by 54 runs
2021 – KKR won by 10 runs
2021 – KKR won by 6 wickets
2020 – KKR won by 7 wickets
KKR Probable XI vs SRH
Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
SRH Probable XI vs KKR
Mayank Agarwal, Travis Head, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Upendra Yadav, Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Umran Malik, T. Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
KKR vs SRH Dream11 Prediction:
Captain: Heinrich Klaasen
Vice-Captain: Andre Russell
Wicketkeeper: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Heinrich Klaasen
Batters: Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Abhishek Sharma
All-rounders: Sunil Narine, Andre Russell
Bowlers: Umran Malik, Varun Chakaravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Full Squad:
Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram (c), 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, Wanindu Hasaranga, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyan
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Full Squad:
Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Phil Salt, 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, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) VS Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Match Details:
What: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) IPL 2024
When: 7:30 PM IST, Saturday – March 23
Where: Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata
Where to watch KKR vs SRH Live Streaming: JioCinema app