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IPL-12: Sunrisers want to win the KKR fort tomorrow

Kolkata vs Hyderabad, IPL T20: Kolkata had to face defeat by Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs in the qualifiers-2 under the captaincy of Dinesh Karthik last season.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will compete against the IPL Season 12 on 4 August at the Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata. Eden Gardens are not less than a Fortress fort for the Kolkata Knight Riders team. For opposition teams, it is not easy to beat the Knight Riders team on the field. Last year, KKR team captain Dinesh Karthik reached the playoff and finished third in the tournament. Sunrisers Hyderabad were defeated by Chennai Super Kings in the final, which was the runners-up of the team last season.

Kolkata won its last title in the IPL under captaincy of Gautam Gambhir in 2014. Since then, the team has made it to the playoff three times in the last four years, but he has not won the title. Kolkata had to face defeat by Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs in the qualifiers -2 in the captaincy of Dinesh Karthik last season. Captain and wicketkeeper batsman Karthik was the highest scorer of the team with 498 runs in the previous season.

In the bowling team, experienced Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav and Piyush Chawla will once again want to strengthen the team together with Kesi Cariappa. In the last season, Kolkata's fast bowling was a little weak. However, chief coach Jacques Kallis believes that he has more options this time. This season, the team will feel the shortage of Shivam Mavi and South African fast bowler Enrique Nortge, who have been injured.

In the batting side, there are explosive batsmen like Chris Lin, Robin Uthappa, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik and Carlos Brathwaite. Team assistant coach Simon Katich believes that he has the best batting order. On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered a 8-wicket defeat in Chennai Super Kings last season. Hyderabad, captained by Kane Williamson, has performed brilliantly since winning the title in the captaincy of David Warner in 2016.

Williamson has scored 735 runs in 17 matches so far, including eight half-centuries in the tournament. However, in this glorious match, all eyes will be on Warner, who has returned after bearing the one-year ban in ball tempering. Team mentor VVS Laxman believes that Warner is completely fit and excited about the league.

Apart from Warner and Williamson, the team of Hyderabad will be expected to do well with batsmen like Martin Guptill, Manish Pandey and Yusuf Pathan. However, the team will miss the shortfall of opener Shikhar Dhawan, who has now gone to the Delhi Capitals team. All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Nabi and Vijay Shankar are also ready to give the team strength in all departments. The bowling responsibility will be on the shoulder of bowlers like Rashid Khan, Billy Stanleyk, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Khalil Ahmed, Siddharth Kaul and Basil Thampi.

Teams:

Kolkata: Dinesh Karthik (Captain), Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Carlos Brathwaite, Joe Denly, Lucky Ferguson, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Harry Gurnay, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Nitish Rana, Sandeep Warrior, Casey Cariappa, Shubhaman Gill, Shrikant Munde, Nikhil Naik, Prithvi Raj and the famous Krishna.

Hyderabad: Ken Williamson, David Warner, Abhishek Sharma, Johnny Bairstow, Khalil Ahmed, Ricky Bhui, Basil Thampi, Shreevats Goswami, Martin Guptill, Deepak Hooda, Siddharth Kaul, Bhubaneswar Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Shahbaz Nadeem, T. Natarajan, Manish Pandey , Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Riddhiman Saha, Sandeep Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shakib Al Hasan and Billy Stanleyk.