IPL 2018, Qualifier2, KKR v SRH, Preview: KKR ready to host, eyeing a spot in IPL 2018 Final
Qualifier 2 is the last hurdle before one of these teams can progress to the IPL title clash. Dinesh Karthik and his men ticked all the boxes during the business end of the IPL tournament with last 5 wins. SRH will be going into the do-or-die encounter at the Eden Gardens today after the back to back four consecutive loss. The winner of Qualifier2 will face CSK in the IPL-11 summit clash in Mumbai on May 27.
With the best bowling attack in the IPL tournament with Bhuvi, Siddarth Kaul and Sandeep Sharma performing consistently along with t Rashid Khan. Williamson brigade will like to extract whatever juice is available from the Eden Gardens ground.
On the other hand, momentum is strongly in favour of KKR brigade because of the home advantage they got, it will need a more effort from the Williamson-led side to stop the Kolkata’s winning juggernaut.
Dinesh Karthik Vs Kane Williamson
Momentum, familiarity of conditions give @KKRiders edge against @SunRisers. Preview by @statanalyst.
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The skipper of the both the team are the top run-getters in this IPL season. Kane Williamson-led SRH abled to manage 685 runs equates to 28.9% of his team’s runs on the other side Karthik-led Kolkata Knight Riders aggregate of 490 runs equates to 18.9% of KKR’s runs.
Stats and Figures
KKR has bowled 156.3 overs of spin while SRH has bowled 123. Their spinners of KKR had taken 48 wickets while SRH spinners managed to get 33 wickets
SRH have the best economy rate of 7.88 while KKR have the poorest 9.07.
The pitch of Eden Gardens has spin-friendly wicket this season with spinners claiming 51 wickets - 20 more than any other venue. A wicket has fallen to spinners every 17 balls at the venue in this IPL season.
Team Face to Face
In Overall 14 matches Sunrisers Hyderabad won 5 matches whereas Kolkata Knight Riders won 9 matches.
From six matches in their home ground, Kolkata Knight Riders won 5 matches where as Sunrisers Hyderabad able to won only one match.
SRH Probable XI:
Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Carlos Brathwaite, Shakib Al Hasan, Shreevats Goswami, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma.
KKR Probable XI:
Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Javon Searles, Piyush Chawla, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav.
First published: 25 May 2018, 15:08 IST