Kolkata Knight Riders will square off against Punjab Kings in the 42nd match of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Friday. KKR have managed five wins in seven games whereas PBKS are staring at the barrel of the gun with only two victories in eight games.
KKR won their previous match against RCB by one run after Andre Russell and Sunil Narine came up with fine bowling performances. Punjab Kings, on the other hand, could only manage 142 runs in the last game against GT and they will want their batters to step up against KKR.
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Liam Livingstone needs 61 runs to complete 1000 runs in the tournament.
PBKS vice-captain Jitesh Sharma needs nine more sixes to complete 50 maximums in the lucrative tournament.
Jonny Bairstow needs five boundaries to reach 150 fours in the tournament.
Venkatesh Iyer needs four more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the IPL. The left-hander also requires five more fours to complete 100 boundaries in the tournament.
Rinku Singh needs six more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the tournament.
KKR captain Shreyas Iyer needs 34 runs to reach the 3000-run mark in the tournament.
Sunil Narine needs eight fours to complete 150 boundaries in the tournament.
KKR all-rounder Andre Russell requires 83 runs to reach the 2500-run mark in the IPL.
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).
PBKS IPL 2024 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Jonny Bairstow (ENG), Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma.
Batters: Shikhar Dhawan, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw (SA), Shashank Singh.
All-rounders: Liam Livingstone (ENG), Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran (ENG), Sikandar Raza (ZIM), Shivam Singh, Chris Woakes (ENG), Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harshal Patel.
Bowlers: Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada (SA), Nathan Ellis (AUS), Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prince Choudhary.
