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Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad are all set to begin the knockout stages of the IPL 2024 today i.e. May 21. KKR and SRH are in Gujarat at Narendra Modi Stadium for today’s game as the first qualifier 1 and eliminator games are scheduled to be played on this ground only.
As the home team of Gujarat i.e. Gujarat Titans are already out out of the competition, Knight Riders and Sunrisers will take charge on the pitch today. As both the teams have got a huge advantage that a loss won’t take them out of the season. The teams losing this game will be given a second chance in the qualifier 2.
Pat Cummins’ captaincy has really led the team to the second place in the table and surely they are one of the strong contenders to lift the trophy this year.
KKR Predicted playing XI:
Rahamanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi/Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh , Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy
SRH Predicted playing XI:
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Reddy, Rahul Tripathi, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth.
