Sunrisers Hyderabad are playing their first match of the season. In the last five games, Hyderabad has won one and lost four. Kolkata Knight Riders will also be playing their first match of the season. Kolkata has three wins and two losses in the last five games. The two teams last met in match 47 of the Indian T20 League 2023. Andre Russell had the highest fantasy points for the Knight Riders with 78 fantasy points, while Aiden Mark Aiden Markram leads the Sunrisers fantasy points leaderboard with 86 fantasy points in games.
The pitch at Eden Gardens, Kolkata will offer good stroke play and batsmen will find it easy to hit the ball on the ground. The surface won’t offer much help to the bowlers and taking wickets won’t be an easy task either. The average first-innings score at this venue in the last 20 games has been 175 runs. The pitch at Eden Gardens, Kolkata is a well-balanced pitch that provides decent assistance to the batsmen and bowlers. The team that wins the toss can decide whether to bat or bowl based on the ground conditions.
The temperature is expected to be around 26°C and the humidity is expected to be around 80%. The expected wind speed is 7.4 m/s.
Pace or spin?
The venue is suitable for walkers and spinners.
KKR vs SRH, head-to-head
In 25 games between the two teams, hitters from both teams have scored the most fantasy points for their respective teams by far.
KKR vs SRH Fantasy XI Prediction: Best Captain and Vice-Captain Picks
Patrick James Cummins
Pat Cummins is a right-arm fast bowler who will lead the Sunrisers side. He last played in the IPL in 2022. He’s a good player for fantasy teams. In the last five games, he has taken five wickets. Cummins is also a deft hitter who bats right-handed.
Andre Dwayne Russell
Andre Russell is a versatile prospect who has averaged 70 fantasy points and a 9.8 fantasy grade over his last 10 games and could be a good safety option for the Dream11 team. He is a right-handed batsman. In the last 5 T20 matches he played, the player scored 129 runs. Russell can also give you some fantasy points with his bowling, right-arm fast bowling, and he has taken 6 wickets in the last five T20 games.
Nitish Rana
Nitish Rana is a batsman who has averaged 54 fantasy points in the last 10 games with a fantasy rating of 9.7 and could be a good safety option for the Dream11 team. The player is a top left-handed batsman. In the last three games he played, Nitish Rana scored 91 points. He can also give you some fantasy points from bowling, bowling breaks, and has taken a wicket in recent matches.
Marco Jansen
Marco Jansen is a safe choice for your Fantasy Team. He’s averaging 102 points over his past 10 games and has a 9.2 fantasy rating. The player is a right-handed batsman. In the last 5 T20 matches, Marco Jansen has scored 62 runs. He can also give you some fantasy points with his bowling, a medium left-arm pace bowler who has taken 16 wickets in his last five games.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar Singh
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is a pretty consistent player in terms of fantasy points. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is averaging 83 fantasy points over his last 10 games with a fantasy rating of 9.2. He is a right-arm medium bowler who has taken 6 wickets in the last three T20 matches he has played.
KKR vs SRH lineup information
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), Manish Pandey, Mitchell Starc, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Dushmantha Chameera, KS Bharat, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Phil Salt, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sherfane Rutherford, Varun Chakravarthy, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Rahmanullah Gubaz, Chetan Sakariya, Vaibhav Arora, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Harshit Rana, Sakib Hussain and Suyash Sharma.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Lineup: Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Aiden Markram, Upendra Yadav, Wanindu Hasaranga, T Natarajan, Glenn Phillips , Anmolpreet Singh, Washington Sundar, Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Markande, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Sanvir Singh, Marco Jansen, Akash Singh, Abdul Samad, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Umran Malik.
Today KKR vs SRH Fantasy XI Team
Goalkeeper: Anmolpreet Singh
Batsmen: Nitish Rana, Linku Singh, Abhishek Sharma and Sherfan Rutherford
All-rounders: Pat Cummins, Andre Russell, Marco Janssen and Aiden Markram
Bowlers: Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Varun Chakraborty
Captain: Linku Singh
Vice-captain: Sherphine Rutherford
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