Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) can be up in opposition to the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) within the first qualifier of the 2024 version of the IPL. For the longest time throughout the season, this fixture regarded unattainable with the way in which Rajasthan Royals had been dominating the league stage at one level. But as luck would have it, the Royals began shedding and all of it started with a 1-run loss in opposition to SRH. SRH received their closing sport to finish up with 17 factors, which is the same as the Royals however the latter have an inferior internet run price.
In a number of points, it is a battle of equals. Similar constructed groups, on intent and going from the outset with an method of taking the bull by its horns, However, KKR can be barely undercooked with their final sport being on May 11. Since then, they’ve had a few referred to as off video games and have misplaced their opening batter Phil Salt, who has returned dwelling for worldwide responsibility, which implies Rahmanullah Gurbaz can be enjoying his first sport of the season immediately within the playoffs.
SRH have an opportunity to peg the Knight Riders early, however the Men in Purple have a greater and an all-round bowling assault and within the battle of damaging batting line-ups, the workforce that bowls nicely would possibly in the end come out on the highest. Sunrisers would possibly wish to convey an additional bowler into the XI as Nitish Reddy and Shahbaz Ahmed as fifth and sixth bowling choices could be a stretch, given it is kind of a semi-final and in opposition to a bulldozing line-up of that of KKR.
My Dream11 workforce for IPL Qualifier 1, KKR vs SRH
Travis Head (c), Abhishek Sharma, Sunil Narine (vc), Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Ramandeep Singh, T Natarajan, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Probable Playing XIIs
Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi/Jaydev Unadkat, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Abdul Samad, Sanvir Singh, Pat Cummins, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Vijaykanth Viyaskanth
