A resurgent Delhi Capitals will look to take advantage of Kolkata Knight Riders’ bowling vulnerabilities and ascend to top-four within the desk throughout their Indian Premier League match in Kolkata on April 29.
With 4 wins of their final 5 matches, the Rishabh Pant-led aspect is progressively assembling their items and beginning to appear to be a power to be reckoned with.
On the opposite hand, the Gautam Gambhir-mentored aspect has endured three defeats of their final 5 matches with their profligacy in bowling hurting them badly.
Signed up as Lungi Ngidi’s alternative, Aussie Jake Fraser-McGurk has proved to be their X-factor together with his ferocious batting show on the high.
A pure power-hitter with excellent hand-eye coordination, the 22-year-old has taken the IPL by storm scoring 247 runs in 5 matches at a strike-rate of 237.50.
His brutal remedy of the in any other case sensational Jasprit Bumrah stands as a sworn statement of his skill-level. McGurk slammed a slower ball from the Mumbai Indians pacer for a six and it was the primary time a batter lofted Bumrah for a first-ball six.
The pacer conceded 18 runs in his first over, probably the most by him on this season in a single over as DC overcame MI by 10 runs on April 27.
He made a 27-ball 84 in opposition to MI, and McGurk will relish the batting-friendly circumstances at Eden Gardens the place 523 runs, together with a report 42 sixes, had been scored between Punjab Kings and KKR.
The PBKS on that event had scaled down a world report 262.
But DC’s batting is just not solely about McGurk, the South African Tristian Stubbs additionally left everybody in awe together with his astonishing power-hitting, smashing a 25-ball 48 not out in opposition to Mumbai.
Pant can be making speedy progress with each match because the DC top-five in Fraser-McGurk, Abhishek Porel, Shai Hope, Pant and Stubbs shall be a trigger of concern for KKR bowling.
The KKR changed injured Mitchell Starc with Sri Lankan pacer Dushmantha Chameera however the latter gave away 16 runs per over in his debut for KKR and did not encourage any confidence.
Barring spinner Sunil Narine, who returned with 1/24 from his 4 overs, none of the KKR bowlers made any affect.
IPL’s costliest purchase Starc has been their greatest letdown and KKR would hope that the Aussie hits his stride quickly after overcoming the thumb harm.
In bowling, Kuldeep Yadav who was sidelined underneath Dinesh Karthik whereas he was with KKR, will look to show a degree in opposition to the Kolkatans as he together with left-arm spinner Axar Patel has shaped a formidable spin pair.
However, the house aspect has some positives to look as much as. Narine’s sensational type with the bat — 357 runs from eight matches with two fifties and one century — has given a thrust to their batting up the order this season.
Narine and Phil Salt have scored bulk of their runs on the high, however the likes of Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell and Ramandeep Singh must chip in with a bit extra runs.
After this match, KKR shall be on the highway to face Mumbai and Lucknow, therefore they are going to be wanting to register a win earlier than these harder assignments and preserve themselves within the play-off race.
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (c), KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain and Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant (c), David Warner, Abishek Porel, Ricky Bhui, Yash Dhull, Shai Hope, Prithvi Shaw, Tristan Stubbs, Kumar Kushagra, Swastik Chikara, Ishant Sharma, Jhye Richardson, Rasikh Dar Salam, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Mukesh Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Khaleel Ahmed, Sumit Kumar, Axar Patel, Gulbadin Naib, Lalit Yadav, Jake Fraser-McGurk.
Match begins: 7.30 p.m.
