Match 42 of the 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL) will pit the Delhi Capitals against the Kolkata Knight Riders at Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium on Saturday.
The main Delhi Capitals have been the team to beat this season and have registered seven wins in ten games. His bowling attack has been the talk of the IPL town, with star pacemaker Kagiso Rabada topping the land sales charts with 21 plots.
Capitals hitters have also contributed revealing contributions, with Shikhar Dhawan entering this game after two hundred consecutive IPLs. They’d want the duo of Rishabh Pant and Prithvi Shaw to join the party sooner rather than later, with the IPL entering its final third.
Delhi will have a good chance of winning on Saturday, but it won’t be as easy as it sounds.
Their opponents, the Kolkata Knight Riders, have had a turbulent campaign so far and have five wins in ten games. A change in the captaincy hasn’t worked out the wonders that KKR fans would have hoped for, as Morgan and company were decimated by RCB in their previous IPL game.
The Knight Riders hitting unit hasn’t clicked lately, and neither Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana have been able to get going in between. With the availability of Sunil Narine and Andre Russell also on the air, there is much to consider for Brendon McCullum and the KKR management.
The previous IPL 2020 meeting between the two sides saw Shreyas Iyer and Anrich Nortje star in a high-scoring thriller as DC took the two points. Although DC are the clear favorites for this encounter, they will be wary of the depth KKR possesses, and this should make it a competitive competition in Abu Dhabi.
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Squads to choose from
Kolkata Knight Riders
Dinesh Karthik (C), Shivam Mavi, Tom Banton, Sandeep Warrier, Kuldeep Yadav, Eoin Morgan, Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine, Nikhil Naik, Manimaran Siddharth, Andre Russell, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna, Shubman Gill, Nitesh Rana, Siddhesh Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Chris Green, and Rahul Tripathi
Capitals of Delhi
Shreyas Iyer (C), Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Pravin Dubey, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kagiso Rabada, Keemo Paul, Mohit Sharma, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ravi Ash , Marcus Stoinis, Daniel Sams, Rishabh Pant, Alex Carey, Shimron Hetmyer and Tushar Deshpande
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Kolkata Knight Riders
Rahul Tripathi, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Eoin Morgan (C), Sunil Narine / Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav and Prasidh Krishna / Shivam Mavi
Capitals of Delhi
Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Shreyas Iyer (C), Rishabh Pant (WK), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Ravi Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje / Daniel Sams and Tushar Deshpande
Match details
Game: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals, Game 42
Date: October 24, 2020, 3:30 PM IST
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
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Launch report
The field at Sheikh Zayed Stadium has been a touch on the slower side, and hitters have had some success at this location at IPL 2020.
Pacemakers have also enjoyed the conditions up front, due to the wide swing on offer. This has forced teams to watch the opening phase while keeping the grounds in hand towards the end of innings.
The boundaries are not as small as Sharjah’s, which adds more importance to running between the gates. Since this is an afternoon game, both teams would like to hit first under conditions that are not expected to change much during the game.
160 should be even on this surface, although both sides have the firepower to break this score with ease.
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