Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bowl, as the Eden Gardens pitch is expected to play flat, with dew likely to come in later.
Ajinkya Rahane: We are going to bowl first. There is always room for improvement but there were a lot of positives. We don’t generally don’t see so much of grass, rain around and that’s why we wanted to bowl first. Not sure with the dew as there’s a breeze going around. It should be good for 40 overs. He is doing everything he needs to do. He should bowl soon. Going with the same team.
On Cameron will bowl today –
He is doing all the things that he needs to do, physio and training. Our training is looking after him really well. All that I can say is that you will see him bowl very soon.
Teams:
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan(w/c), Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Salil Arora, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, David Payne
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane(c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Blessing Muzarabani
Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Harshal Patel, Liam Livingstone, Eshan Malinga, R Smaran, Sakib Hussain
Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Subs: Finn Allen, Manish Pandey, Saurabh Dubey, Rovman Powell, Tejasvi Dahiya
Ishan Kishan: We would have bowled first. But batting first, we have to see the ball and play accordingly. We have to come up with the best game for us. You have to go out and do the basics right. Only one point I would say is execution, we need to calm even if we are not in a very good situation. We will look to keep it simple in this game. I don’t know yet, but he should be ready soon, he makes a big difference, with the bat as well. We have one change – Shivang comes in, keeping the wicket-taking options open, he has bowled well in the nets and we are giving him an opportunity.
Ajinkya Rahane: We are going to bowl first. There is always room for improvement but there were a lot of positives from the last game – batting unit wise we batted really well. As I said in the post-match presentation, bowling wise there was a bit of inexperience but they will do really well. We generally don’t see this much of grass, last couple of days rain around and that’s the reason we are bowling first. Generally there is dew but this wicket should remain good for 40 overs, not sure with the dew as there’s a breeze going around, but generally at 7:30-8 the dew comes in. He (Cam Green) is doing all the things which he needs to do, physio and our trainer are looking after him. You will see him bowling very soon. Going with the same team.