Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss and have opted to field
Ajinkya Rahane: We wanted to bowl. (I’m thinking back to the previous game actually, that’s why I asked that) That match didn’t get over, so you never know. Just one change – Sunil comes in place of Blessing, Varun is still recovering from his hand injury. When he (Green) is allowed to bowl, we will see him, the combination gets better, so Rovman Powell plays, when Cam Green bowls then we have an extra bowler. ( Varun Chakaravarthy will miss today’s match as he has not recovered from his injury and is still unfit to play.)
Rishabh Pant: I think [we are] looking to bowl first. We want to put opposition at the back. Like I said before, we trust our bowlers enough that they might do a good job for us. (How significant was that win?) We feel, you know, victory definitely adds to the atmosphere of the team. We always talk about being positive, being having that intent at the same time. When you win, I think when people see all that are coming together, really happy for that. We’re playing with the same team. No change for us. (How do they balance their batting order?) We feel, our top order is definitely batting heavy, but at the same time we trust our top order to get us through the whole innings. You know, that’s what we are here for.
Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI : Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), 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