Kolkata Knight Riders will be up against Mumbai Indians in the 60th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Saturday. While KKR is at the top of the IPL 2024 standings with eight wins in 11 matches, MI is out of the playoff race after managing only four wins in 12 games.
MI won their previous match against SRH by seven wickets after SKY played a magnum opus knock of 102 runs. On the other hand, KKR thrashed Lucknow Super Giants by 98 runs in the last game as fine knocks from Phil Salt and Sunil Narine.
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Tim David needs four sixes to complete 50 maximums in the tournament.
MI captain Hardik Pandya needs a dozen fours to complete 200 boundaries in the IPL.
Ishan Kishan needs one boundary to complete 250 fours in the tournament.
Rinku Singh needs six more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the tournament.
Sunil Narine needs four sixes to complete 100 sixes in the tournament.
KKR all-rounder Andre Russell requires 40 runs to reach the 2500-run mark in the IPL.
MI Squad: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Luke Wood, Kwena Maphaka.
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).