The third match of the 2024 edition of the Indian Premier League will see Kolkata Knight Riders face Sunrisers Hyderabad. Get our latest expert KKR vs SRH match betting tips, predictions and picks below. You can start betting on the IPL 2024 by opening your account with 1xbet here.
Kolkata vs Hyderabad Match Information
- Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
- Date: Saturday, March 23
- Time: 8 pm local (2.30 pm GMT, 10.30 am EDT)
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The Shreyas Iyer-led Kolkata Knight Riders have a point to prove and that’s how it seems to have looked in the lead-up to the competition.
The return of Gautam Gambhir as mentor, the selection of Mitchell Starc for a whopping INR 24.75 crore and Shreyas Iyer also coming back from his fitness concerns are all an indicator that the Knight Riders mean business.
They also have Chandrakant Pandit as a coach, Abhishek Nayar deputising him and Bharat Arun joining in as the bowling coach.
What’s interesting to note is that while Starc is the most expensive buy ever in the auction, the second costliest purchase in the form of Pat Cummins will be leading Sunrisers Hyderabad.
And they needed that change too after the kind of season they had in 2023, finishing at the bottom of the pile under Aiden Markram.
What Have The Two Teams Done So Far?
While Kolkata Knight Riders have won the title twice, clinching it in 2012 and 2014, they have struggled to get going following that. In fact in the nine seasons since their second title, the Knight Riders made the playoffs just four times of which they were the runner-up in 2021.
The Sunrisers started off as a team in 2013, having replaced Deccan Chargers and won the title in 2016. They made the playoffs each of the following four seasons which included a finals appearance in 2018 but they have fallen off the radar in the previous three seasons.
Hyderabad finished eighth in the eight-team group in 2021, followed by eighth and 10th in the 10-team tournament the following two seasons. Surely they would like to do better than that here.
Interesting KKR vs SRH Stats
- KKR vs SRH Head-to-head: .There have been 25 matches played between these two teams with KKR holding a 15-9 edge. One match, played in the 2020 edition of the tournament, ended in a tie before Hyderabad managed just two runs in the Super Over which KKR overcame easily.
- Overall, Kolkata have played 237 games in the IPL so far and won 119 of them, giving them a winning percentage of 50.21%. Hyderabad are 78-84 on win-loss making them another team which has a lower than 50% ratio.
- Two of the batters in the Knight Riders set-up, Andre Russell and Nitish Rana have more than 2000 runs. On the other hand, with David Warner having departed from the Hyderabad set-up, no current SRH batter has scored more than Abhishek Sharma’s 830 runs!
- Fortunately for Hyderabad, they do have the experience of Bhuvneshwar Kumar who has 146 IPL wickets to his name at 25.18. Sunil Narine leads the KKR pack with 163 scalps to his name.
Possible Playing XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders
Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, KS Bharat, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, Chetan Sakariya, Mujeeb ur Rahman
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Agarwal, Washington Sundar, Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Umran Malik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande
KKR vs SRH Predictions with Latest Odds*
- Prediction 1: Sunrisers Hyderabad to win: 4/5 (sign up with 1xbet)
- Prediction 2: Highest Opening Partnership – Kolkata Knight Riders: 8/11
*odds correct at the time of writing.
