IPL 2021, KKR vs DC preview: Kolkata Knight Riders’ floundering batting faces strong Delhi Capitals test | Cricket News

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Kolkata Knight Riders’ floundering batting might be put to test as soon as once more as they give the impression of being to construct a successful momentum in opposition to a star-studded Delhi Capitals of their Indian Premier League match on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Thursday.

KKR’s batting woes emanate proper from the highest with the extremely proficient Shubman Gill persevering with his poor run – 89 runs from six outings. While their bowling, particularly the ‘master-apprentice’ spin duo of Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, have carried out a superb job in limiting the oppositions, KKR’s top-order batting has harm them essentially the most.  

Chasing a straightforward 124 in opposition to Punjab Kings of their final match, KKR’s top-order minimize a sorry determine to be at 17 for 3 inside three overs earlier than skipper Eoin Morgan led from the entrance to snap their four-match shedding streak.  

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Against a DC batting line-up boasting match’s main run getter Shikhar Dhawan (265 runs), Prithvi Shaw, Steve Smith and the damaging Rishabh Pant, KKR cannot afford any extra slip-up in the event that they need to proceed their ascent within the IPL factors desk.

First-up, Morgan must repair the Gill conundrum. With scores of 15, 33, 21, 0, 11 and 9, the opener has didn’t impress, extending his poor run of kind from the England Test collection. It wouldn’t be a foul ploy to drop Gill down the order and convey again Narine to open with Rahul Tripathi, one thing that was instructed by the legendary Sunil Gavaskar. 

The top-order reshuffle often is the means ahead because the likes of Morgan, Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik appeared to have discovered their mojo within the center.  

Thursday’s conflict will see a mini battle between the Caribbean duo of Russell and Shimron Hetmyer who might be anxious to do nicely after the Capitals suffered an agonising one-run defeat in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore right here on Tuesday.

Chasing 172 for a win, the Capitals have been struggling at 92 for 4 however Hetmyer upped the ante in firm of his captain and one other left-hander Pant because the duo smashed explosive half-centuries however solely to go down in a last-ball thriller.

Russell too appeared in his components when he smashed Chennai Super Kings bowlers throughout the park in his 22-ball 54 however solely in a shedding trigger. It stays to be seen who among the many Caribbean duo wins the battle on Thursday. 

After Ravichandran Ashwin’s pulling out, the Capitals’ bowling received a lift from Ishant Sharma who cleaned up the in-form Devdutt Padikkal with a peach of a supply en path to a tidy 1/26.

KKR batting might be put to test in opposition to the likes of Ishant, Kagiso Rabada and younger gun Avesh Khan, whereas the spin duo of Amit Mishra and Axar Patel may even look to make an affect.

SQUADS: 

Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant (c/w), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, Shams Mulani, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddarth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings and Aniruddha Joshi. 

Kolkata Knight Riders: Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Harbhajan Singh, Karun Nair, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer and Pawan Negi.

Match begins at 7.30 p.m. IST. 





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