2024-04-25 23:50:20
Kolkata: The 42nd match of the Indian Premier League 2024 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings on April 26 at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata. KKR is in amazing form this season while Punjab Kings are seen struggling like every year. KKR is at second position in the points table after winning 5 out of 7 matches, while Punjab Kings is at 9th position after winning two out of 8. For Punjab, every contest from here is do or die. On the other hand, KKR would like to take concrete steps to qualify for the playoffs by winning one more match. So let us know what the mood of the pitch is going to be in this interesting match.
Pitch report of Kolkata and Punjab match
Kolkata’s Eden Gardens Stadium is continuously witnessing high scoring matches this season. 200 runs are being scored and chases are also taking place on this ground. In such a situation, a high scoring match can also be seen between Kolkata and Punjab. In the history of the Indian Premier League, a total of 90 matches have been played so far at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata. Out of these, the team batting first has won 37 matches and the team batting second has won 53 matches. The average score of the first innings on this ground is 165 runs. Whichever team wins the toss can look to bowl first.
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Both the teams for the match are as follows-
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (captain), KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya. , Harshit Rana, Suyyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Saki Hussain and Mujeeb Ur Rehman.
Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Tyde, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kawerappa. , Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thiagarajan, Prince Choudhary and Riley Rossouw.