Kolkata Knight Riders will host Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Eden Gardens in today's IPL 2025 match. Catch all the live updates, including the live score from the KKR vs SRH game right here.
IPL 2025, KKR vs SRH: Live score and commentary
Match 15, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
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IPL 2025, KKR vs SRH: Predicted playing XIs
KKR playing XI
Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (wk), Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Moeen Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy.
Impact Subs: Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora.
SRH playing XI
Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aniket Verma, Kamindu Mendis, Pat Cummins (c), Simarjeet Singh, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Zeeshan Ansari.
Impact Subs: Jaydev Unadkat, Wiaan Mulder, Abhinav Manohar, Travis Head, Rahul Chahar.
KKR vs SRH: Toss updates
SRH have won the toss and elected to field first.
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KKR vs SRH: Team news and updates
On paper, a clash between last season’s finalists is expected to be among the most high-profile contests. Unfortunately, both teams have stuttered in the early phases of their campaigns, and have won one game out of three.
None of that, however, should mean that they need to abandon the near-identical approaches that had worked for them 2024. Both teams bat deep (KKR probably deeper than SRH), and boast of some outrageous power hitters. In 2024, they were the quickest scorers inside the powerplay, and they do have the firepower to emulate that.
What they need to focus on is bowling, particularly inside the powerplay. Shami, Cummins, and Harshal, all strike bowlers, also have a tendency to go for runs in this format. That has been exposed in this edition, particularly inside the powerplay. Perhaps SRH may use them more in the middle overs.
The KKR middle order, instrumental to their success in 2024, has not come off. While strings of low scores are inevitable for high-risk batters, four of them – Iyer, Rinku, Russell, Ramandeep – suffering at the same time is not good news. A rejig in the batting order? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
IPL 2025, KKR vs SRH: Eden Gardens, Kolkata Pitch and weather report
Since the start of the 2023, the IPL run rate at the Eden Gardens has been 9.96 (an average score of 199), the highest of all venues with a five-match cut-off. Pacers go for 10.74 an over here (the most), but the spin economy of 8.50 here is the fifth-most (roughly the average mark). With so many power hitters, expect some power hitting tonight.
Kolkata had a cloudy morning, but the day will be baked in sunshine and temperature will soar to 36°C. However, it is expected to drop to 30°C around the toss and to about 27°C by the time the match ends. There is no chance of rain.
IPL 2025, KKR vs SRH: What is the match prediction?
Home advantage make KKR slight favourites tonight.
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