Ahmedabad, May 21: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klassen pitted against Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh and Andre Russell.
Its bit difficult to choose which side will punish the rival bowlers more.
But yes both sides have some quality bowlers as well. Pat Cummins, Bhuvneswar Kumar and T Natarajan versus Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc and Varun Chakaravarthy, can be an interesting battle.
However, considering the match is played in Ahmedabad, batters may have the last laugh in the bang-bang form cricket on Tuesday evening, when Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) lock horns in Qualifier 1 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 for a place in the final.
A win will guarantee a direct place in the final while a losing team will play in Qualifier 2 with the winner of the Eliminator for a place in the final.
This is only the fourth meeting between the two teams in the IPL Playoffs with SRH winning two in the previous three encounters. However, in the overall head-to-head, KKR hold an advantage over SRH.
KKR v SRH head-to-head: 26
Kolkata Knight Riders: 16
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 9
Tied: 1
Match time:The match starts at 7:30 PM IST (2:00 PM GMT) with the toss taking place half an hour before the match i.e., 7:00 PM (1:30 PM GMT)
Match venue: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
Live broadcast on television in India: Match will be broadcast live via Star Sports Network.
Live stream in India: The live streaming would be available on JioCinema
Squads:
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Abdul Samad, Sanvir Singh, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Agarwal, Aiden Markram, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Mayank Markande, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, Srikar Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford, Dushmantha Chameera, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sakib Hussain, Suyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Chetan Sakariya.
Considering current form and team combinations, experts and fans my back SRH to dominate in the Ahmedabad surface, but actually there is nothing between the two sides to choose. On a given day, ether side can dominate the other. (With IANS support)
