The cricket giants will gather at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on 21st May, where Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad will face each other in the thrilling Qualifier 1 match. If we look at the KKR team, this team has reached the IPL play offs 13 times, this team has won eight times while it has also faced defeat 5 times, however, the team did not lose in Qualifier 1, in such a situation KKR has become a big challenge.
This match will not only be a battle between two teams, but it will also decide who will reach the final. The winning team will get a ticket to the Grand Final to be held in Chennai on May 26, while the losing team will get a second chance in Qualifier-2 with the winner of the Eliminator.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Kolkata has an excellent record in the playoffs. It has won the title twice. The team reached the final in 2021 under adverse circumstances.
Performance in the league: 1st place with 9 wins, 3 losses and 20 points in 14 matches. Where the net run rate is +1.428
Strengths: Strong batting order, which includes explosive players like Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell and Rinku Singh.
In bowling: Sunil Narine and team Harshit Rana’s experience and Varun Chakravarthy’s clever bowling.
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
Performance in the league: 9 wins, 3 losses in 14 matches and second place with 17 points. Net Run Rate 0.414
Strong points: Brilliant batting by Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head, Aiden Markram, lethal bowling by Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Balanced team: Strong in both batting and bowling.
This match is definitely going to be exciting.
What is your opinion? Which team will reach the final?
KKR vs SRH Live: Playing-11 of both teams Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty. Impact Sub: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, KS Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford. Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T. Natarajan. Impact Sub: Sanveer Singh, Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Jaydev Unadkat.
