On Thursday, the 15th match of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League will be played, for which Sunrisers Hyderabad will face Kolkata Knight Riders (SRH vs KKR). Pat Cummins lost two consecutive matches after winning against Rajasthan Royals. In such a situation, by winning this match, Hyderabad's team will try to return to the campaign. On the other hand, KKR will also lose the previous match and field. So, both SRH vs KKR teams will give a tough competition to each other to win the match.

Sunrisers Hyderabad will want to try to return to the form

Sunrisers Hyderabad made a bang of IPL 2025. In their first match of the season, the team led by Pat Cummins defeated Rajasthan Royals by 44 runs and opened the victory account. However, SRH suffered a shameful defeat against Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals after this. During this time, Hyderabad's batting order proved to be a big problem for the team. Ishaan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma failed to play a good innings. Now if Sunrisers Hyderabad has to win against Kolkata Knight Riders (SRH vs KKR), then these batsmen will have to improve their performance.

Kolkata will be looking for victory

In IPL 2025, nothing has been done right for Kolkata Knight Riders so far. He suffered a crushing defeat against Mumbai Indians after Royal Challengers Bangalore. Both teams clashed at the Wankhede Cricket Stadium, in which Mumbai defeated KKR by 8 wickets. Kolkata bowlers and batsmen failed to perform well. In such a situation, Ajinkya Rahane and Company will like to return to the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH vs KKR).

SRH vs KKR will clash between these players in the match

Travis Head vs Harshit Rana

Sunrisers Hyderabad's Dhakad opener Travis Head had a great performance against Rajasthan Royals. He played a stormy innings by bowling the bowlers and contributed to winning the team. But after this his bat remained silent. Therefore, in the match to be played on Thursday, explosives will try to return to the game form. During this time, Kolkata Knight Riders fast bowler Harshit Rana will be the biggest challenge for him. With his speeding ball, he would like to give a big blow to Hyderabad by dismissing Travis Head quickly.

Ishaan Kishan vs Sunil Naren

Sunrisers Hyderabad's young batsman Ishaan Kishan was the first batsman to score a century in IPL 2025. At the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, he played a rage by raising Rajasthan bowlers. On the Eden Gardens pitch, he can once again prove to be a time for bowlers. Captain Ajinkya Rahane will use his dangerous bowler Sunil Naren to dismiss him.

Such will be the condition of pitch-masam

The 15th match of IPL 2025 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad will be played at Eden Gardens. If we talk about the pitch of this ground, then it is no less than a paradise for the batsmen. Since the ball comes easily on the bat, it becomes easy for the players to hit sixes and fours. The highest score here is 228 runs. At the same time, there is no scope for rain in Kolkata on Thursday on the weather. The maximum temperature is 36 ° C and the minimum temperature is 28 ° C.

Kolkata-Hyderabad's possible playing XI for KKR vs SRH match

Kolkata Knight Riders' Potential Playing XI- Quinton de Kock (wicket-keeper), Sunil Naren, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty and Spenser Johnson.

Sunrisers Hyderabad's possible playing XI- Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishaan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Henrik Klassen (wicket-keeper), Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins (Capnins), Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami and Zeeshan Ansari.