Indian Premier League 2023: The 39th league match of the 16th season of IPL is being played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Gujarat Titans (GT) at the Eden Gardens ground. In this match, the Gujarat team won the toss and did not take any delay in deciding to bowl first. One major change that has been seen in the Gujarat team is that Shubman Gill did not get a place in the playing 11, he has been included in the list of impact players. On the other hand, the Kolkata team has included Rahmunallah Gurbaz in the team due to Jason Roy not being fully fit.
Earlier this season, when both the teams clashed, Kolkata won the match by 3 wickets in a thrilling way, in which Rinku Singh hit 5 consecutive sixes in the last over of the innings. The start of the match is expected to be delayed due to rain just after the toss. The pitch and ground have been completely covered.
See here the playing 11 of both the teams
Kolkata Knight Riders – N Jagadishan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David VJ, Shardul Thakur, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty.
Gujarat Titans – Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya (c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Joshua Little.
ЁЯЪи Toss Update ЁЯЪи@gujarat_titans win the toss and elect to field first against @KKRiders,
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Gujarat team is currently in third place in the points table
So far this season has also seen the best performance of defending champions Gujarat Titans. The team has won 5 out of 8 matches so far. At present, Gujarat is in third place in the points table with 10 points. If Gujarat manages to win this match, then it will directly reach the first place with 12 points.
On the other hand, if we talk about Kolkata Knight Riders, there have been many ups and downs in their performance. Under the captaincy of Nitish Rana, the team has won only 3 out of 8 matches this season.
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