Kolkata Knight Riders are placed second, and Lucknow Super Giants are stationed third on the points table.
LSG vs KKR Live Updates, Match 54: The race to make the playoff is ramping up. The Rajasthan Royals have virtually sealed the spot, and now the Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants have a chance to take a big lead over others as well. The Shreyas Iyer-led side have 14 points and are already in the penultimate spot, while the KL Rahul-led side have the golden opportunity to take the second spot themselves at the Ekana Cricket Stadium.
Rahul says
We will bowl first. I’m not a best reader of a wicket, we just like chasing. The good thing is we have been able to adapt really well and quickly to the conditions, there have been quite a few brilliant individual performances as well. There’s been a lot of talk about strike-rate, and T20 cricket has changed a lot in the last couple of years. He was injured in the last game, Yash Thakur comes in for Mayank Yadav.
Impact Subs
Kolkata Knight Riders: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Srikar Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford, Vaibhav Arora.
Lucknow Super Giants: Arshin Kulkarni, Manimaran Siddharth, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yudhvir Singh, Devdutt Padikkal.
Playing XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana.
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (c & wk), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ashton Turner, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur.
Same team for KKR: Shreyas Iyer
“We would have bowled as well. Defending that total with five bowlers in the last game gives us a lot of confidence. There’s a lot of self-belief in the team. We are going with the same team. Hopefully, we will continue with the same form. He has been optimistic from game one, just that he wasn’t able to execute.”
One change for LSG, says KL Rahul
“We will bowl first. I’m not the best reader of a wicket; we just like chasing. The good thing is we have been able to adapt really well and quickly to the conditions, and there have been quite a few brilliant individual performances as well. There’s been a lot of talk about strike rate, and T20 cricket has changed a lot in the last couple of years. He was injured in the last game; Yash Thakur comes in for Mayank Yadav.”
Lucknow Super Giants win the toss and elect to bowl first
Squads
Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Srikar Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford, Chetan Sakariya, Dushmantha Chameera, Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Harshit Rana, Sakib Hussain, Suyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar.
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (c & wk), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ashton Turner, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan, Arshad Khan, Arshin Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Manimaran Siddharth, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Prerak Mankad, Mayank Yadav, Amit Mishra, Kyle Mayers, Quinton de Kock, Matt Henry, Yash Thakur, Devdutt Padikkal, Shamar Joseph.
Welcome to live coverage of the 54th match of the IPL 2024 between the Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders.
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