Kolkata Knight Riders eased past Mumbai Indians with their 18th consecutive victory on Saturday, a win that made them the first team to clinch a playoff berth.
The Titans’ hitting unit looks to build on its form from the last game, but they face a tough challenge KKR bowling.
exist Varun Chakraborty (18 wickets in 12 games), Harshit Rana (16 wickets in 10 games), Sunil Narine & Andre Russell (15 wickets in each of 12 games), KKR have 4 bowlers among the top 10 wicket takers.
Left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc took 12 wickets in 11 games despite scoring 11.36 runs per match, while pacer Vaibhav Arora also stepped up when needed for the purple team own level.
team leader The duties of Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarsan and other Titans batsmen will be cancelled.While the responsibility will fall on the opener, the rest of the batting unit includes Shah Rukh Khan, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia & Rashid Khan If they want to pose a challenge to the visitors, they will have to stay aggressive throughout the set.
The Titans bowling unit, which has been mediocre for much of the tournament, will face one of the most explosive opening pairings of the tournament.among british people Phil Salter KKR (435 runs in 12 games, strike rate 182) and Narine (461 runs in 11 games, 182.93), KKR has two batsmen who not only score a lot of runs, but also score them fast.
Captain Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell and Angkrish Raghuvanshi shouldered the middle-order duties with aplomb.Lefty returns Nitish Rana The recovery from injury has provided the team with further batting strength.
It will be interesting to see if Titans bowlers Umesh Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmad along with Mohit Sharma can contain the predatory KKR batsmen as this duel is likely to decide the outcome of the game .
