Indian Premier League 2023 Match 19, Toss Update: In the 19th league match of the 16th season of IPL, there will be a clash between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). This exciting match between the two teams is being played at the Eden Gardens ground, the home ground of the Kolkata team. In this match, the Kolkata team won the toss and decided to bowl first. So far both the teams have played 3-3 matches in this season, out of which KKR’s team has won 2 while Hyderabad has won only 1 match.
Here is the playing XI of both the teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders – Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), N Jagadishan, Nitish Rana (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Suyash Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav , Varun Chakraborty.
Sunrisers Hyderabad – Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Marco Yansin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, T Natarajan.
🚨 Toss Update 🚨@KKRiders win the toss and elect to field first against @SunRisers.
Follow the match ▶️ https://t.co/odv5HZvk4pTATAIPL | pic.twitter.com/77S1a7knB9
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 14, 2023
Kolkata has shown excellent performance so far under the captaincy of Nitish Rana
In this season, Nitish Rana is handling the captaincy of the Kolkata Knight Riders team. The season did not start well for them, in which the team had to face a close defeat against the Punjab Kings. After this, the KKR team made a great comeback, first defeating RCB by 81 runs at their home and then won the match by 3 wickets in a thrilling way against Gujarat Titans. At present, the Kolkata team is at the fourth position on the points table with 4 points.
Hyderabad team broke the streak of defeat in the last match
The beginning of the new season was not good at all for the Sunrisers Hyderabad team. He had to face a big defeat of 72 runs in his first league match against Rajasthan. After this, the team got defeated by 5 wickets in their second match against Lucknow. The Hyderabad team made a spectacular comeback in the third match by winning the match against Punjab by 8 wickets and also opened their account on the points table.
Read also…