Delhi Capitals will square off against Kolkata Knight Riders at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. Shreyas Iyer, now Kolkata Knight Riders’ captain, led Delhi Capitals to the 2020 final but missed the first half of the 2021 season due to a shoulder injury.
DC then decided to pass on the captaincy baton to Rishabh Pant but the wicket-keeper also missed IPL 2023 after a horrific car accident. Iyer, on the other hand, missed the 2023 edition due to a back injury. These two, previously teammates at Delhi Capitals, will be rival captains.
Meanwhile, DC has managed a solitary win out of the three games they have played whereas KKR has won both of their matches.
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Venkatesh Iyer needs four more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the IPL. The left-hander also requires 10 more fours to complete 100 boundaries in the tournament.
Axar Patel needs 39 runs to complete 1500 runs in the tournament. The left-hander also requires nine more boundaries to complete 100 fours in the tournament.
Mitchell Marsh needs two fours to complete 50 fours in the IPL.
Rishabh Pant needs 49 runs to complete 4500 runs in T20s.
Khaleel Ahmed will play his 100th T20 match.
Anrich Nortje needs five more scalps to get to 150 wickets in T20s.
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.
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).
