Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer with his Sunrisers Hyderabad counterpart Pat Cummins during the toss of the Indian Premier League 2024 qualifier 1 in Ahmedabad on May 21, 2024.
| Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji
Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad kicked off their IPL campaign against each other in a high-scoring thriller in which the former prevailed by four runs. The match was a sneak peek into the game style the two outfits would employ this season, prioritising a no-holds-barred approach to batting.
Nearly two months after that game, KKR and SRH — who finished first and second in the group stages, respectively — will square off again in Qualifier-1 of the IPL Playoffs at the Narendra Modi Stadium on May 21.
Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first during the Indian Prmier League 2024 qualifier 1 match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Ahmedabad on May 21.
After winning the toss, Pat Cummins said “We haven’t played a final for a couple of years, so the players are really excited. we have pretty much same XI in the last game”
Shreyas Iyer said, “I would loved to bowl first. It is a mixed soil surfce so let us see how it play. we are going with the same team.”
The teams
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Shreyas Iyer (capt), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy. Impact Players: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, KS Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins (capt), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T Natarajan. Impact Player: Umran Malik, Sanvir Singh, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Jaydev Unadkat
