Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings are scheduled to face one another within the 53rd match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday. It is a particularly essential recreation for the Nitish Rana-led facet as a loss will kind of finish their hopes of creating it to the playoffs. Even although Punjab Kings have a bit little bit of a respiration house, a loss may even carry them into the must-win state of affairs to make it to the highest 4 within the factors desk.
Ahead of the encounter, KKR have been boosted with an awesome information as their premier tempo bowler Umesh Yadav is match and accessible to play. He hasn’t performed since April 26 recreation in opposition to RCB resulting from hamstring harm however in response to ESPNCricinfo, the tempo bowler has recovered and is on the market for choice. However, it stays unclear if he’ll get an opportunity within the taking part in XI. Two different bowlers Harshit Rana and Vaibhav Arora performed in his absence and it stays to be seen Umesh slots straight again into the taking part in XI.
Meanwhile, after taking part in as a pure batter in opposition to GT, Shardul Thakur hit the strides with the ball within the earlier recreation in opposition to SRH. He despatched down three overs for simply 23 runs and likewise picked up two key wickets. Umesh and Shardul returning to full health is a good information for the Indian group in addition to each the gamers are picked within the squad for the WTC Final in opposition to Australia set to be performed subsequent month.
Squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Anukul Roy, Suyash Sharma, N Jagadeesan, Kulwant Khejroliya, Mandeep Singh, Tim Southee, David Wiese, Umesh Yadav, Aarya Desai
Punjab Kings Squad: Prabhsimran Singh, Shikhar Dhawan(c), Matthew Short, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Sam Curran, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide, Mohit Rathee, Shivam Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Baltej Singh, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Gurnoor Brar
