Kolkata Knight Riders will face Mumbai Indians in their next IPL match in 2024. The is their tenth game of the season and the first meeting between the two teams this season.
KKR is in second place in the points table at the start of this season and has the best NRR. They won against DC in a 154-run chase with 21 balls remaining. Meanwhile, MI lost its last game against LSG in Lucknow.
The start of Phil Salt and Sunil Narine has worked wonders for KKR so far. The batters who followed did were able to maintain this momentum and migration Out wins. Varun Chakravarthy’s spell against DC was the largest positive for KKR in the last game. He took 3/16 and won that wickets from Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs.
Varun and Narine have Now took 11 wickets each in this year’s IPL. Young pacer Harshit Rana has won 11 while Vaibhav Arora has won nine. You can bowl well with the spinners KKR look like a good unit.
Harshit has been delivered a one-game suspension after his celebration in the last game against DC. It will be interesting to see who replaces him in the eleven. Apart from him, KKR wants to stay on the same page as Nitish Rana’s fitness update is yet to be known.
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KKR plays 11 vs Mumbai Indians – IPL 2024, Match 51
Phil Salt (WK)
Phil Salt will open the batting for KKR. He has scored 392 runs in 9 games for KKR so far this season. He just scored a game-winning 63 against DC.
Salt becomes be missed the playoffs if KKR qualifies for the final four than England have recalled their players for the T20 World Cup preparations.
Sunil Narine
Narine will open the batting for KKR with Salt. The duo was brilliant for the Kolkata Knight Riders. The mystery spinner scored 372 runs and took 11 wickets until now this season.
Shreyas Iyer (c)
Iyer will step in at three. He scored an unbeaten 33 points and secured the chase against DC. He was not included in the Indian T20I squad that got introduced for the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Venkatesh Iyer
The southpaw will intervene at four. He Also scored an unbeaten 26 off 23 against DC and added an unbeaten 57-run stand with his skipper to take KKR home.
Rinku Singh
Rinku Singh will step in at five. He scored 11 off 11 balls was advertised in the batting lineup against DC. This year his highest score was 26 And he scored 150 runs in nine games. He was kept in the reserves in the Indian T20 World Cup squad.
Andrew Russell
Russell will fill in at six. He only bowled one over against DC and was not necessary with the bat in the run chase. KKR defeated DC on his birthday on April 29th. This season He has scored 179 runs and picked up nine wickets so far.
Ramandeep Singh
Ramandeep will step in at seven. He played his part with the bat whenever he did got his Opportunities. He has been a brilliant fielder for KKR so far this season.
Mitchell Starc
Starc will fill in at eight. He scored 43 runs and took one wicket against DC. He continued to be expensive, taking seven wickets in eight games admit 330 runs.
Vaibhav Arora
Arora will step in at nine He will be the only Indian pacer in the XI with Harshit Rana suspended for one game. The pacer scored 2/29 against DC and took a total of nine wickets in five games.
Varun Chakraborty
Chakravarthy will be ranked 10th. He took 3/16 against DC and scored the winning goal. His return to form was that largest Positives for KKR from the game. He has now taken 11 wickets this season.
Sakib Hussain
KKR could try to bring in Sakib Hussain in place by Harshit Rana against MI. The right-arm medium pacer has taken four wickets from two T20Is and is known to bowl with pace.
Impact Sub-Syuash Sharma / Angkrish Raghuvanshi
KKR can use either Suyash or Raghuvanshi as a batting player dependent on the game situation. They also have Manish Pandey in their ranks And His experience can Also Make him a useful impact sub.
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