IPL 2021: KKR vs SRH, Everything You Need to Know

When: April 11, 2021. 19:30 IST.
Where: M.A. Chidambaram Stadium,Chennai.

[SRH vs KKR, IPL 2021]

Kolkata Knight Riders had not had a good IPL for last two years.They have failed to make playoffs in 2019 and 2020. But this time,they are expected to be different with the ICC world cup winning captain Eoin Morgan.

On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad have performed well in IPL in recent seasons.They have got a strong squad that has ability to be the winner.

SRH won the IPL trophy in 2016 and were runners-up of IPL 2018.They have qualified every season since 2016.On the other hand KKR won the trophy in 2012 and 2014,but couldn't  repeat their success in the following years.

HEAD TO HEAD:

19 matches have been played between  two teams which 12 have been won by KKR, while SRH have won the remaining 7.

Team News:

 

[Sunrisers Hyderabad,SRH]

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Captain David Werner will open with Jony Bairstow. But the problem is the 4 foreigner players,Jony would not be available  to night. In the middle order, they have some experienced players like Monish Pandey,Kane Williamson, Wriddiman Saha and few young guns like Priyam Garg and Abdul Samad. SRH have good all-rounder like Nabi and Jason Holder. In bowling  department, SRH have one of the best bowling unit of this IPL. They have best T20 bowler like Rashid Khan and Bhuveneshwar Kumar and both of them have got excellent IPL record so far.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

 

[Kolkata Knight Riders, KKR]

Talking about KKR,has got youngster Shubman Gill as an opener who is  a class player and shows good form from international games. With the regular failure of Sunil Narine as an opener, the team will probably move on to Rahul Tripathi. In the middle-order, Kolkata Knight Riders have Nitish Rana, Sakib-Al-Hasan, Dinesh Kartik, and captain Eoin Morgan.They have big hitter Andre Russell.

In the bowling department, KKR has Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy, Sakib-Al-Hasan, Andre Russell and Kuldeep Yadav. Kolkata’s team looks good but the form of their players is a major concern for them.

Probable  XI:

KKR: Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Sakib-al-Hasan,Dinesh Kartik,Eoin Morgan(C),Andre Russell,Pat Cummins,Prashidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav.

SRH:David Warner (C), Manish Pandey, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Priyam Garg, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma.

The author Masum Siraj is the sports analyst of Europeans24 .