Both Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders are placed in the bottom half of the points table with three wins each. Despite a strong start to their season, the Knight Riders' bowling attack has not been consistent. They will rely on their spin trio of Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, and Suyash Sharma as they are hoping for a morale-boosting win.
SunRisers Hyderabad have won three matches out of the total eight matches they have played till now despite their batting unit not striking form. Aiden Markram and his team made a strong squad and will hope for an improved performance against the Knight Riders.
Check all the details given below regarding the match:-
IPL Match 2023
Teams: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Captains:
Aiden Markram is going to lead Sunrisers Hyderabad
Nitish Rana will lead Kolkata Knight Riders
When: May 4, 2023
Match is going to start at 7:30 p.m. IST
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
Head to head of these two teams from IPL: Both the teams have met each other on 24 occasions where Sunrisers Hyderabad has won 9 matches whereas Kolkata Knight riders have won 15 matches.
Likely playing XI
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Harry Brook, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Akeal Hosein, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik and T Natarajan.
On Bench: Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, AU Rashid, T Natarajan, Fazalhaq Farooqi, UD Yadav, Vivrant Sharma, MJ Dagar, K Nitish Kumar Reddy, SB Vyas, Anmolpreet Singh, M Jansen, Sanvir Singh, Kartik Tyagi
Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Narayan Jagadeesan, Nitish Rana (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana.
On Bench: Mandeep Singh, Tim Southee, UT Yadav, AS Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, S Iyer, Liton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, LH Ferguson, K Khejroliya, JJ Roy.
New rules
Impact player: Both captains of SRH and KKR will have a list of four substitute and one of them can be called in as the impact player to bat and bowl
Name playing XI after the toss: Both captains will be allowed to pick playing 11 they have pre decided depending upon the outcome of the toss.
Pitch report
The pitch of the Hyderabad is a good one to bat on with the average first innings score reading 181. In the previous games fast bowlers took 10 wickets out of 15 at the venue, as help was available for spinners at the venue. Two out of three matches here in this season have been won by the team batting first. After winning the toss chasing should be the preferred option.
Most probable best performers in SRH vs KKR
Probable best batsman: Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Probable best bowler: Varun Chakaravarthy
Weather forecast for today in Hyderabad
Maximum temperature: 33°C
Minimum temperature: 23°C
Wind speed: 11km/h
Chances of rain: 30%
Capacity of stadium: 55,000
Prediction to win: Sunrisers Hyderabad is most likely to win the match
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