Lucknow: The first qualifier match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 is being played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In this match, Hyderabad won the toss and decided to bat first. Let us tell you that Kolkata has shown excellent performance this season and has topped the points table in the league stage. This is the first time in the history of KKR, when they are at the first position in the points table. In such a situation, the competition between these two teams is going to be interesting.

Hyderabad has also surprised everyone with their batting this season and they have made a tremendous start. SRH openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma have given their team an explosive start in almost every match but now it remains to be seen whether they will be able to give the same kind of start in this match as well.

In the history of IPL, the match played between these two teams has been one-sided for Kolkata. In the history of the tournament, these two teams have come face to face 26 times so far. During this period, Kolkata has won 17 matches, while Hyderabad has also won 9 times.

In this match, both the teams have not made any changes in their playing eleven and both have entered with the same team. So Shreyas wanted to bowl first in this match and now he has got this.

Playing XI of Kolkata Knight Riders

Sunil Narine, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty.

Impact Player: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, KS Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford.

Playing XI of Sunrisers Hyderabad

Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Nitish Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (captain), T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijaykant Viaskant.

Impact Player: Sanveer Singh, Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Jaydev Unadkat.

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