Chennai. The strong Sunrisers Hyderabad will face two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here in the 14th edition of the IPL. Hyderabad’s team reached the playoffs last season. There have been 19 matches between Knight Riders and Hyderabad so far, out of which the Hyderabad team has won seven while losing 12 matches.
However, when it comes to all the departments, Hyderabad’s team is stronger than Knight Riders captained by Eoin Morgan.
His bowling attack has been strengthened by the return of fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar to the Hyderabad team which already includes Rashid Khan, Jason Holder and T. Natarajan.
Bhuvneshwar could not play in the last season of the IPL due to injury. He recently performed better in the limited-overs series against England.
The batting attack of Knight Riders struggled in the previous season and it will be a tough challenge for him to overcome the fast and snipe attack of Hyderabad.
Knight Riders’ explosive all-rounder Andre Russell failed to perform well with the bat last season.
Batting for the Knight Riders will be pitted against Morgan, Shakib Al Hasan, Shubman Gill and Russell to help them score big against Hyderabad.
The bowling of Knight Riders is his strong side, especially the spin attack. Apart from Sunil Narayan, he has also included Harbhajan Singh in the team while Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav and Shakib are also in the team.
In addition, Pat Cummins will also feature in the bowling department. Knight riders need to focus on their batting.
The two teams are as follows:
Hyderabad: David Warner (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Johnny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Srivats Goswami, Siddharth Kaul, Khalil Ahmed, T. Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Abdul Samad, Jason Roy, Jason Holder, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Mujib ur Rehman and J.K. Well informed
Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (wicketkeeper), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Eoin Morgan (captain), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav, Pat Cummins, Lauki Ferguson , Kamlesh Nagerkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasiddh Krishna, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer and Pawan Negi.
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