The 19th match of IPL 2023 will be played on Thursday between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad. This match will be played at Eden Gardens. Eden Gardens is called the home of KKR. There is the support of spectators on the home ground. At the same time, the morale of Kolkata Knight Riders has increased after registering consecutive wins in the last two matches.
The pitch of Kolkata’s Eden Gardens has been made in a new way. It is not easy to chase 180 runs here, but bowling first after winning the toss is beneficial here. 79 IPL matches have been played at Eden Gardens. Of these, the teams chasing runs have won 47 times. At the same time, the team batting first has won 32 times.
Talking about the weather in Kolkata, it is likely to remain extremely hot. The mercury is expected to reach 33 to 37 degree Celsius.
After the sun sets, a drop in temperature is recorded here. The average first innings score at Eden Gardens is 160. The highest score here so far is 232, which was made by KKR against Mumbai Indians in 2019. Exciting competition can be seen here.
However, in the only match played here this season, the situation looked somewhat different. In that match played between Kolkata and Bangalore, KKR scored 204 runs for 7 wickets while batting first at Eden Gardens. At the same time, when RCB got down to reply, their entire team was reduced to 123 runs and lost the match by 81 runs.
Spinners played a big role in this. Varun Chakraborty took 4 wickets, and Sunil Narine took 2 wickets and broke the back of the Bangalore team. Today in the Punjab-Hyderabad match also, spinners can be seen on this pitch.
Possible Playing XI Of SRH:- Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Rahul Tripathi, A Markram, H Klaasen, W Sundar, M Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, Mayank Markandey
Possible Playing XI Of KKR:- R Gurbaz, N Jagadeesan, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, L Ferguson
