IPL 2025 KKR vs SRH playing 11; Moeen Ali comes in for Spencer Johnson

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Tezzbuzz|03-04-2025

IPL 2025 KKR vs SRH playing 11: Ajinkya Rahane led Kolkata Knight Riders is set to face Pat Cummins led Sunrisers Hyderabad to play the 15th match of IPL 2025 on April 3 in Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

IPL 2025 KKR vs SRH playing 11

SRH had the worst bowling average (37.54) and the second-worst economy rate (9.89), marginally better than DC (9.95) in IPL 2024. Their economy rate continues to be the worst in IPL 2025.

SRH have the best scoring rate in the powerplay this season (11.88), but have also lost seven wickets in this phase (the most by any team). Sunil Narine has gone wicketless in 14 of his 25 IPL outings vs SRH.

In KKR vs SRH match today, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and opted to field first.

Winning the toss, SRH captain Pat Cummins said, “We will bowl. Looks like a good surface, but I’m terrible at reading it. They outplayed us in the final, but a bit of change in both sides. We’ve spoken about our batting, we’ve been at our best while being aggressive, but we can’t be reckless. He has been amazing, doesn’t get unfazed by any situation. Coordination is the key, but we do have a clear idea”.

While KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane said “Looks good, I’m really happy with the pitch, we were also bowling first. It will suit our spinners, at home, you should get what you want, but we’ll need to assess the situation quickly with the bat. We sat together, discussed how we can get better, but this is a long tournament and it was one bad day. Moeen Ali comes in place of Spencer Johnson. Regardless of all plans, we’ll have to come out and do well in the middle”.

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Quinton de kock (w), sunil narine, ajinkya rahane (c), venkatesh iyer, rinku singh, angkrish raghuvanshi, moeen ali, andre russell, harshit rana, varun chakaravarthy, ramandeep singh

Impact Subs: Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Heinrich Klaasen (W), Kamindu Mendis, Simarjeet Singh, Pat Cummins (C), Harshal Patel, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shimai, Mohammed Shami, Zeeshan Adsari

Impact Subs: Abhinav Manohar, Jaydev Unadkat, Travis Head, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder

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