Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opt to bowl
Time
Venue
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune
Umpires
Bruce Oxenford, KN Anantha Padmanabhan
Third Umpire
Ulhas Gandhe
Match Referee
Vengalil Narayanan Kutty
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
Playing
Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Sam Billings (wk), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Umesh Yadav, Rasikh Salam, Varun Chakaravarthy
Bench
Mohammad Nabi, Sheldon Jackson, Chamika Karunaratne, Baba Indrajith, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Pratham Singh, Abhijeet Tomar, Aman Hakim Khan, Ashok Sharma, Ramesh Kumar, Tim Southee, Shivam Mavi
KOL is set to take on Mumbai Indians in TATA IPL on Wednesday, 06 April 2022 at 19:30 PM IST
Can Mumbai Indians get back to winning ways after losing their first 2 matches ?
Kolkata Knight Riders Team Updates:
Kolkata Knight Riders have played 3 matches in the series and they are currently ranked second on the points table
In the last match played by Kolkata Knight Riders against Punjab Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Punjab Kings by 6 wicket
Venkatesh Iyer and Ajinkya Rahane will probably open the inning.
Shreyas Iyer will bat at the one down position. He is the backbone of the batting team.
Nitish Rana and Sam Billings will handle the middle order batting.
Shreyas Iyer will lead the KOL as a Captain. He is also a good Batsman
Sam Billings will do the Wicket Keeping for KOL.
Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy will take care of the spin bowling of his team.
Umesh Yadav and Tim Southee will lead the pace attack of his team.
Umesh Yadav is having top most fantasy points in this series. He is the highest wicke taker with 8 wickets so far.
Mumbai Indians Team Updates:
Mumbai Indians have played 2 matches in the series and they are currently ranked eighth on the points table.
In their last match in this series against Rajasthan Royals, Rajasthan Royals beat Mumbai Indians by 23 runs
Surya Kumar is likely to be back for Mumbai Indians in this match after recovering from Injury.
Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan will probably open the inning.
Rohit Sharma will lead the Mumbai Indians as a Captain. He is also a good Batsman
Ishan Kishan will do the Wicket-Keeping for Mumbai Indians.
Anmolpreet Singh / Surya Kumar Yadav will bat at the one down position.
Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma will handle the middle order batting.
Murugan Ashwin will take care of the spin bowling of the team.
Tymal Mills and Jasprit Bumrah will lead the pace attack of his team.
Head to Head: 29
KOL: 7 Won MI: 22 Won
In the 29 matches played between these 2 teams, Kolkata Knight Riders have won 7 matches and Mumbai Indians have won 22 matches.
Mumbai Indians bowling is becoming a weak link
Fast bowler Basil Thampi and spinner Murugan Ashwin proved to be weak links for Mumbai in the last match against Rajasthan. Thampi gave 26 runs in one over and Ashwin gave 32 runs in three overs. Australian fast bowler Daniel Sams has also given a lot of runs in the last two matches and has failed to take wickets.
Winning Predictions
Kolkata Knight Riders do not have a good record against Mumbai Indians, We expect the trend to continue and Mumbai to win the match and get on winning ways.
Live Telecast:
The match will be live telecast on Star Sports
Top Picks
Ishan Kishan is in sublime form scoring 2 half century in 2 games played this season. His last 5 T20 scores read as 54, 81*, 16, 89, 34 .
Shreyas Iyer has recent scores of 26, 13, 20* in this season but can bounce back in no time scoring big runs.
Suryakumar Yadav might start the next game against Kolkata. At Pune, he has scored 127 runs in 3 games that he has played at an average of 42.33 His recent scores in T20s are 65, 8, 34*.
Tymal Mills had a great start to the Indian t20 league taking 4 wickets in 2 games played. His wickets read as 3, 1, 0, 1, 0 in last 5 T20 games played
Umesh Yadav has taken 8 wickets in 3 matches played this season. He has taken atleast 2 wickets in each of the 3 matches played this season. Hence, he is must pick considering his recent form
Andre Russell had good start to this season taking 2 wickets and scoring 95 runs in 3 matches played. At Pune, he has scored 83 runs and taken 2 wickets in 2 Indian t20 league game. Thus he is a must pick for the upcoming game
