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Both teams have won three games in the last five matches and that too in the same order. Lucknow Super Giants lost two games out of their four games this season. They are coming off a win against Mumbai Indians in the last match. Kolkata are also coming off a win against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Eden Gardens.
A total of 97 IPL matches have been played at this venue. Teams batting second have won 57 times, while those batting first have won 40 matches. This is a day game where things will be different. The average first innings score is 167 which is a moderated score. The teams batting first will have the advantage in this match as it is a day game. Players from fielding team will get tired in the first innings which can give advantage to the team bowling second.
Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants have faced each other 5 times in the IPL so far. Lucknow Super Giants have won 3 of those matches, while Kolkata Knight Riders have won 2. No match between these two teams ended in a tie or no result. Kolkata will have a chance to make it three-three against Lucknow Super Giants in this match.
Quinton de Kock (wk), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
Impact Players: Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia
Injury Update: None
Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan
Impact Players: Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Manimaran Siddharth, Akash Singh
Injury Updates: None
Pooran has scored 68 runs in 42 balls against Varun across 5 IPL seasons. He has been dismissed twice, with a strong strike rate of 161.9. He has hit 4 fours and 6 sixes, showing good attacking intent. In recent years, he has dominated this matchup without getting out.
Quinton has scored 46 runs off 35 balls against Shardul and has been dismissed twice. His strike rate is 131.4, with 3 fours and 3 sixes. His best showing was in 2020, but since then, he has struggled to score freely or consistently.
Pant has smashed 52 runs in 24 balls against Russell, getting out 3 times. His strike rate is an explosive 216.7, with 5 fours and 4 sixes. He has shown his ability to hit Russell hard but has also been dismissed a few times, making it a high-risk, high-reward battle.
Varun Chakravarthy is a great bowler who has been phenomenal this season picking up 6 wickets in four games. He has an strike-rate of 18.00 against Lucknow Super Giants making him a good player pick in this match. Talking about Eden Gardens, Varun has taken 25 wickets on this ground with an average of 23.00 and a strike-rate of just 15.52.
Sunil Narine has an average of 32.75 against LSG in IPL history, scoring 131 runs in five matches. He has an strike rate of 198.48 against LSG. While he has not done well this season, this could be the match for him to make a comeback. However Kolkata can replace his opening slot in this match. In that case you can avoid him as your captain and vice-captain.
Nicholas Pooran has the orange cap this season with 201 runs with an average of 50.25. Nicholas Pooran has an average of 27.13 against Kolkata Knight Riders, scoring 217 runs in 10 matches. Pooran also loves playing at Eden Kolkata scoring 103 runs at an average of 51.50. He has smashed nine sixes and six fours at this venue in just two innings.
Mitchell Marsh is a destructive batter who plays one way in this season to provide his team a solid start in the powerplay. He has scored 184 runs in four games with an average of 46.00 and a best of 72 runs in this season and is just behind Nicholas Pooran in terms of runs for LSG.
Rishabh Pant is out of form this season scoring just 19 runs in four games. He is a good budget pick, having a lot of pressure to do well. He is trying too hard to do well which is not in his natural game plan. He should play his natural game to make a comeback. He has an average of 24.06 against Kolkata Knight Riders. He also has an average of 30.50 at Eden Gardens.
Ajinkya Rahane is playing so well this season and the first match against RCB and the last match against SRH is a testament of his caliber. He was playing so well before getting out by Zeeshan Ansari on 38 runs. He hit four sixes in that match. He can be a vital player in this match with an average of 27.08 in Eden Gardens.
Powell has not performed well so far and has 0 fantasy points to his name. He is not getting enough chances to bat or make an impact, so it's better to avoid him for this match. Shahbaz has only scored 18 fantasy points and hasn’t contributed much with bat or ball. Unless he gets a proper role, he might not be a good pick in Dream11.
Keeper: Nicholas Pooran, Quinton De Kock
Batters: Mitchell Marsh, Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi
All-rounders: Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Aiden Markram
Bowlers: Varun Chakravarthy, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Rathi
Keeper: Nicholas Pooran, Quinton De Kock, Rishabh Pant
Batters: Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi
All-rounders: Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Aiden Markram
Bowlers: Varun Chakravarthy, Shardul Thakur, Harshit Rana
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