IPL 2022: KKR vs SRH Toss, Playing 11 Update, Pitch Report, Pre-Match Comments: Knights opt to bat against SRH

After
winning
the
toss
in
Pune,
Knights
skipper
Shreyas
Iyer
elected
to
bat
first
against
Kane
Williamson-led
Sunrisers
Hyderabad.

Electing
to
bat
first,
Shreyas
said,
“If
you
see
the
teams
that
have
batted
first
here,
have
been
able
to
defend
the
total.
We
were
forced
to
make
changes
this
time.
Umesh
Yadav
comes
in
for
Pat
Cummins.
Sam
Billings
comes
in
for
Sheldon
Jackson.
We
came
back
to
the
core
team
that
we
started
with
and
want
to
continue
with
the
same
form.”

Meanwhile,
Williamson
said,
“We
played
on
this
surface
just
the
other
day.
We
wanted
to
bat
first
as
well.
Both
Natarajan
and
Washington
are
both
back
in
and
Marco
Jansen
is
back
for
Farooqi.”

With
the
playoffs
race
heating
up
the
outcome
of
the
match
will
play
a
massive
role
role
in
deciding
the
top
four.

Shreyas
Iyer-led
KKR
and
Kane
Williamson-led
currently
lie
in
the
bottom
half
of
the
points
table.
While
Knight
Riders
have
ten
points
from
12
matches,
Sunrisers
have
ten
points
from
11
matches.

In
their
previous
meeting
this
season,
Sunrisers
had
handed
Knight
Riders
a
seven-wicket
loss.
While
Knights
head
into
the
match
on
the
back
of
a
win,
Sunrisers
will
enter
the
game
on
the
back
of
four
consecutive
losses.

KKR
vs
SRH
Playing
XIs:

Kolkata
Knight
Riders
Playing
11:
Venkatesh
Iyer,
Ajinkya
Rahane,
Nitish
Rana,
Shreyas
Iyer
(capt),
Sam
Billings
(wk),
Rinku
Singh,
Andre
Russell,
Sunil
Narine,
Umesh
Yadav,
Tim
Southee,
Varun
Chakravarthy

Sunrisers
Hyderabad
Playing
11:
Abhishek
Sharma,
Kane
Williamson
(capt),
Rahul
Tripathi,
Aiden
Markram,
Nicholas
Pooran
(wk),
Shashank
Singh,
Washington
Sundar,
Marco
Jansen,
Bhuvneshwar
Kumar,
Umran
Malik,
T
Natarajan