Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss and have opted to field
Rishabh Pant: Looking to bowl first. We want to put the opposition into bat, we trust our bowlers to do the job. Definitely a victory adds to the atmosphere in the team. We are playing with the same team. Our feel our top order is batting heavy, but we trust our top order to get us through.
Ajinkya Rahane: We wanted to bowl. That match didn’t get over, so you never know. Sunil comes in, Varun is still recovering from his hand injury. Varun (Chakaravarthy) is still recovering from his hand injury.
Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Navdeep Saini, Kartik Tyagi
Impact Player Substitutions:
Lucknow Super Giants: Ayush Badoni, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mayank Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders: Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Tejasvi Dahiya, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert