The Indian Premier League action continues as Kolkata Knight Riders host Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 14th match of this year’s tournament and we have all your angles you covered.
Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, time and date, as well as how you can watch all the action from the UAE.
DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO
Date: April 15, 2017 (Saturday)
Time: 14:30 GST, 20:00 local time (IST), 10:30 GMT
Venue: Eden Gardens
WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO
TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports
Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)
LIVE: Sport360.com.
TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs
Playing in his first match of #IPL2017, @y_umesh took his first four-fer for us & broke the spine of Kings batting line-up #KKRvKXIP #AmiKKR pic.twitter.com/94V40nAklf
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) April 14, 2017
KKR SQUAD: Gautam Gambhir (c), Trent Boult, Darren Bravo, Piyush Chawla, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Colin de Grandhomme, Rishi Dhawan, Sayan Ghosh, Sheldon Jackson, Ishank Jaggi, Kuldeep Yadav, Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Rovman Powell, Ankit Rajpoot, R Sanjay Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Robin Uthappa (wk), Chris Woakes, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav
Kolkata were superb in victory last time out with Sunil Narine shining as a surprise opener and skipper Gautam Gambhir smashing an unbeaten 72 that saw his team to victory.
All looked good with the bat and Umesh Yadav’s 4-33 showed a potency that will have delighted Gambhir.
Only the desire to rest players would see any change but considering the strong start Kolkata has made to this year’s tournament, they are likely to stick to the formula that has delivered them two wins from three so far.
PREDICTED KKR XI: Gambhir (c), Uthappa (wk), Lynn, Pandey, Y Pathan, SK Yadav, Woakes, Chawla, Narine, de Grandhomme, Boult
Coach @TomMoodyCricket 's thought on Narine being a threat at the Press Meet in Kolkata. #OrangeArmy #RiseOfOrange pic.twitter.com/qOW0Ti6dNS
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) April 14, 2017
SRH SQUAD: David Warner (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Moises Henriques, Mustafizur Rahman, Naman Ojha (wk), Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Barinder Sran, Abhimanyu Mithun, Vijay Shankar, Tanmay Agarwal, Mohammad Nabi, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Rashid Khan, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin, Mohammed Siraj
Defeat last time out came as a surprise such has been Sunrisers’ form this season, carrying on from last year’s championship winning campaign.
Their middle-order was shocking as they collapsed from 81 without loss to 155 all-out as Mumbai Indians secured a convincing victory.
That defeat will have hurt Sunrisers and may well prompt change in the side to freshen things up.
Mohammad Nabi is waiting in the winds, as is Kane Williamson but how could you drop Rashid Khan? Ben Cutting may be the other overseas to make way with Moises Henriques expected to return.
PREDICTED SRH XI: Warner (c), Dhawan, Henriques, Yuvraj, Ojha (wk), Hooda, Rashid, Bhuvneshwar, Nehra, Shankar, Mustafizur
FORM
(Last five matches – with latest match first)
KKR: W L W L W
SRH: L W W W W
MATCH PREDICTION
Both these sides look very good so far so it’s a tricky one to call but we’re going for home advantage to pay off and Kolkata secure a huge win.
