{"id":47946,"date":"2026-04-09T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=47946"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:48:31","slug":"ipl-2026-kkr-vs-lsg-live-why-is-varun-not-playing-rovman-powell-and-narine-in-action-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-kkr-vs-lsg-live-why-is-varun-not-playing-rovman-powell-and-narine-in-action-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 KKR vs LSG Live: Why is Varun not playing? Rovman Powell and Narine in action tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss and have opted to field<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\"><b>Ajinkya Rahane:<\/b>\u00a0We wanted to bowl. (I\u2019m thinking back to the previous game actually, that\u2019s why I asked that) That match didn\u2019t get over, so you never know. Just one change \u2013 Sunil comes in place of Blessing, <strong>Varun is still recovering from his hand injury<\/strong>. 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. ( <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Varun Chakaravarthy<\/span><\/span> will miss today\u2019s match as he has not recovered from his injury and is still unfit to play.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Rishabh Pant:<\/b>\u00a0I 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\u2019re 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\u2019s what we are here for.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cm-b-roundcard flex-coloum\">\n<div><span class=\"cm-b-comment-c2\"><b><u>Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI\u00a0<\/u><\/b>: 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<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"cm-b-roundcard flex-coloum\">\n<div><span class=\"cm-b-comment-c2\"><b><u>Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI:<\/u><\/b>\u00a0Ajinkya Rahane (c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Navdeep Saini, Kartik Tyagi<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><u>Impact Player Substitutions:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Lucknow Super Giants:<\/b>\u00a0Ayush Badoni, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mayank Yadav<\/p>\n<p><b>Kolkata Knight Riders:<\/b>\u00a0Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Tejasvi Dahiya, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss and have opted to field Ajinkya Rahane:\u00a0We wanted to bowl. 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