After getting on the board, Delhi Capitals will look to build up on the momentum when they take on Kolkata Knight Riders at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. DC registered a convincing 20-run win against reigning champions CSK as they came up with a collective effort.
KKR, on the other hand, outplayed Royal Challengers Bengaluru with the bat as Sunil Narine played an aggressive knock at the top of the order. We take a lot at the head-to-head battle, Players to watch out for, and Squads of both teams in our match preview.
Delhi Capitals: W L L
DC would be delighted after getting a win in their last game against CSK. The Capitals came up with a collective batting show as Rishabh Pant, David Warner, and Prithvi Shaw all scored runs. Moreover, their bowlers were right on the money.
Kolkata Knight Riders: W W
KKR have got off to an ideal start as they have won both of their matches and they will want to carry the good show. Their bowlers were able to come back in the death overs against RCB whereas Sunil Narine and Venkatesh Iyer were sensational in the run-chase.
Head to Head: Matches: 33, Won by KKR: 16, Won by DC: 16, Abandoned: 1.
Players to watch out for: Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant, and Tristan Stubbs will be the crucial players for DC.
Andre Russell, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, and Sunil Narine will hold the key for KKR.
KKR Squad: Shreyas Iyer, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (AFG), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford (WI), Manish Pandey, Andre Russell (WI), Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine (WI), Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Dushmantha Chameera (SL), Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (AFG).
DC Squad: Rishabh Pant, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, Kumar Kushagra, Ricky Bhui, Shai Hope, Prithvi Shaw, Harry Brook, Yash Dhull, Swastik Chikara, David Warner, Pravin Dubey, Axar Patel, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Sumit Kumar, Anrich Nortje, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Jhye Richardson, Rasikh Salem.
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