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IPL 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Lucknow Super Giants – Dafanews Match Preview

Kolkata Knight Riders will square off against Lucknow Super Giants in the 28th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Sunday in a day game. Both of these teams have won three matches out of the four games they have played (before LSG’s match against DC).

We take a look at the head-to-head battle, Players to watch out for, and Squads of both teams in our match preview.

Lucknow Super Giants: W W W L

LSG will look to continue the winning impetus as they have successfully defended scores. LSG’s bowlers have been right on the money as they have stepped up. Furthermore, almost all the batters have put their hand up at the right time.

Kolkata Knight Riders: L W W W

Kolkata Knight Riders suffered their first loss of the season against defending champions Chennai Super Kings. KKR could only muster 137 in the last game against CSK and they will want to come up with a better batting show against LSG.

Head to Head: Matches: 3, Won by LSG: 3, Won by KKR: 0.

Players to watch out for: Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, and Sunil Narine will hold the key for KKR.

Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul, Nicholas Pooran, Marcus Stoinis, Naveen-ul-Haq, Ravi Bishnoi, and Mohsin Khan will be the crucial players for LSG.

LSG IPL 2024 Squad

Wicketkeepers: Quinton de Kock (SA), KL Rahul, Nicolas Pooran (WI).

Batters: Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Ashton Turner (AUS).

All-rounders: Deepak Hooda, K. Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers (WI), Marcus Stoinis (AUS), Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh Charak, David Willey (ENG), Arshin Kulkarni, Md. Arshad Khan.

Bowlers: Mark Wood (ENG), Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq (AFG), Shivam Mavi, Manimaran Siddarth.

KKR Squad: Shreyas Iyer, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (AFG), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford (WI), Manish Pandey, Andre Russell (WI), Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine (WI), Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Dushmantha Chameera (SL), Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (AFG).

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