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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will face Mumbai Indians (MI) in the fifth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday (September 23).
KKR would be playing their first game of the thirteenth season. MI, on the other hand, is coming after facing a loss against their arch-rivals Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
Pitch and weather report
The team winning the toss will choose to field, because of the dew factor. Both seamers and spinners will have their role in the game.
The conditions will be warm with the temperature around 31 degrees Celsius. The level of humidity will be near 69%.
Playing combinations
Kolkata Knight Riders
Probable XI: Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik (c, wk), Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna.
Mumbai Indians
Probable XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Saurabh Tiwary, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah.
Head to Head
Overall
- Played: 25 | KKR won: 6 | MI won: 19
At neutral venues (outside India)
- Played: 3 | KKR won: 1 | MI won: 2
Here are the IPL T20 fantasy suggestions:
Fantasy Suggestion #1:
Quinton de Kock (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rohit Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, Surya Kumar Yadav, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Trent Boult Rahul Chahar, Kuldeep Yadav.
Captain: Sunil Narine; Vice-Captain: Trent Boult
Fantasy Suggestion #2:
Quinton de Kock (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan, Surya Kumar Yadav, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Pat Cummins, Rahul Chahar.
Captain: Dinesh Karthik; Vice-Captain: Rahul Chahar
Squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik (c, wk), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Siddhesh Lad, Sandeep Warrier, Nikhil Naik, Chris Green, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Ali Khan, Tom Banton, Varun Chakravarthy, Manimaran Siddharth.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Saurabh Tiwary, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Chris Lynn, Aditya Tare, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jayant Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan, Sherfane Rutherford, Digvijay Deshmukh, Prince Balwant Rai.
