Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will host Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) of their first sport of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata. KKR shall be led by Shreyas Iyer, who’s at present probably the most skilled captain within the match. Then again, Pat Cummins, who had a terrific 2023 because the chief of Australia, will look to carry SRH’s outdated glory again. As we gear up for the third match of IPL 2024, we carry you the match preview, head-to-head stats, potential XIs and Dream11 staff prediction of the KKR vs SRH match in Kolkata.

Match Particulars

Match: KKR vs SRH, match no. 3, IPL 2024

Date: 23 March 2024

Time: 7.30 pm IST

Venue: Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium, Kolkata

Streaming particulars: Jio Cinema, Star Sports activities

Pitch Report

Eden Gardens has been very a lot batting-friendly in the previous few years. Within the final season, 4 out of seven matches performed on the venue crossed the 200 mark. Therefore, it may be stated, there shall be runs within the KKR vs SRH match as effectively.

T20I matches report at Eden Gardens

Whole matches – 11

Matches gained batting first – 5

Matches gained bowling first – 6

KKR vs SRH head-to-head stats

Crew Information

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata have been boosted by Gautam Gambhir’s thoughts and presence, who continues to be probably the most profitable KKR chief in IPL historical past. Gambhir’s presence because the mentor will definitely assist the franchise plan and combat for the glory this time. Shreyas Iyer will lead them, who shall be coming from an damage.

Nonetheless, the principle attraction for the KKR followers would be the most costly participant in IPL historical past, Mitchell Starc. Starc shall be recent after a break from worldwide cricket and shall be rearing to unleash on the Sunriseres batters. Together with him, younger uncapped gamers like Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora and Sakib Hussain shall be below the highlight with the ball in hand.

Gurbaz, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, and Rinku Singh may be key maintain for KKR within the batting lineup together with Manish Pandey who identical to Gautam Gambhir had a profitable stint for the boys in purple. Andre Russell and Sunil Narine will at all times be the important thing elements for them.

There are not any stories of damage and everybody within the squad is accessible for the choice.

SRH

Sunrisers Hyderabad have pretty a new-looked staff after their failures in recent times. They’ve introduced in Pat Cummins as their chief and that may be an enormous factor for them since no different chief in world cricket has been as profitable because the Aussie pacer within the final 12 months. Together with him, Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klassen will carry management expertise to the staff as effectively. Mayank Agarwal and Rahul Tripathi shall be their predominant Indian batters whereas Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed and Bhubaneshwar Kumar will play enormous roles with the ball in hand for them.

Travis Head may be one of many gamers to be careful for on this yr’s IPL after a profitable ICC World Cup 2023 with the Australian Cricket staff. Wanindu Hasaranga won’t be obtainable for the KKR vs SRH conflict as he shall be on the point of play the Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka check collection. Gamers like Mayank Markande and Adil Rashid can are available to fill the leg spinner’s function for them.

Head Coach Dan Vettori has set the tone for our first match of #IPL2024🧡 pic.twitter.com/zKcb9wzsCu

— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) March 23, 2024

KKR vs SRH: Doable taking part in XIs

KKR: Venkatesh Iyer, Phil Salt (wk), Shreyas Iyer (capt), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy. [ Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey and Vaibhav Arora can be the options for impact player ]

SRH: Mayank Agarwal, Travis Head, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Pat Cummins (capt), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik [ T Natarajan, Marco Jansen and Jaydev Unadkat can be the options for impact player ]

KKR vs SRH: Dream11 staff prediction