{"id":20655,"date":"2023-04-14T19:10:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=299713"},"modified":"2023-04-14T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:40:36","slug":"ipl-2023-kkr-wins-toss-and-opts-to-field-to-play-with-unchanged-team-against-srh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2023-kkr-wins-toss-and-opts-to-field-to-play-with-unchanged-team-against-srh\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2023: KKR wins toss and opts to field; to play with unchanged team against SRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The fans are anticipating the forthcoming encounter between the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). The historic Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata will host the game, and the anticipation is great.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KKR is coming into the game after a stunning win against Gujarat Titans, which saw Rinku Singh hit five consecutive sixes and guide the team to a target of 205 runs. Meanwhile, SRH achieved their first win of the season in their previous outing against Punjab Kings after losing their opening two games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Toss Update \ud83d\udea8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKRiders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KKRiders<\/a> win the toss and elect to field first against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunRisers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SunRisers<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Follow the match \u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/odv5HZvk4p\">https:\/\/t.co\/odv5HZvk4p<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TATAIPL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TATAIPL<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KKRvSRH?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KKRvSRH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/77S1a7knB9\">pic.twitter.com\/77S1a7knB9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPL\/status\/1646869700608167938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kolkata Knight Riders have won the toss and have opted to field. Nitish Rana, the KKR captain, said, <em>\u201cWe\u2019ll bowl first. We\u2019ve been practicing here and there has been dew. Keeping in mind, we want to chase. Same XI for today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aiden Markram, the SRH skipper, was happy either way but would have looked to bowl first considering the trend. <em>\u201cThis is a high-scoring wicket, so happy to get runs on the board. Nice to get a win, and today is a fresh start. Hopefully, we can do well. One change, Abhishek Sharma comes in for Washi Sundar. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll set a target; you need to look at the pitch and then reassess. Whatever we get, we\u2019ll try our best to defend,\u201d said Markram.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The match promises to be an exciting encounter, with both teams looking to secure a victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fans are anticipating the forthcoming encounter between the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). The historic Eden\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":41195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2106,618],"class_list":["post-20655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-aiden-markram","tag-nitish-rana"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}