Kolkata knight Riders will be locking horns Against Gujrat Titans in the 3rd match of the Indian Premier league 2023. The match will be played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The match starts at 3:30 PM IST.
After the victory of the 1st 2 matches of the tournament, the Gujrat Titans walk into the third match of the IPL with massive confidence. Be it the bowling or the bating they have all the basis covered and have some young blood like Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan with powerful bating skills. They also have some top class bowlers in Mohammed Shami, Rashid Khan and Joshua Little. Now that’s a very potent bowling attack and to go with that an attacking and, dynamic captain in Hardik Himanshu Pandya.
Now coming to the Kolkata knight Riders, the super star Shahrukh Khan’s team comes off a big win in their previous match beating the Royal Challengers Bangalore by a huge margin of 81 runs. Kolkata Knight Riders floored the opponents the Royal Challengers Bangalore, chasing a target of 205 runs RCB were bowled out for 123 in 17.3 overs. Being in a good head space, the team will be looking to carry on the momentum they garnered from the previous win on their home ground in the Eden Garden Kolkata.
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Shubman Gill is a gorgeous right hand batsman, who is pure delight to watch. when he gets going there isn’t a batter sight than to watch him perform. He plays the front foot punch through in front of the off side marvellously well. His back foot punch square through the off side is remarkable. He also plays the straight drive straight pass mid-off and mid-on. Spin or pace he is a good player of both types of bowling. This batsman who skilfully plays a highly delicate pedal sweep against spin bowling has played 74 matches, scored 1,977 runs with a batting average of 38.50 and a strike rate of 157.14 in his Indian Premiere League career so far.
David Miller also known as killer Miller can play a threshing cut shot through the off side for a boundary and can also play a smashing pull shot in between mid-wicket and square leg. He can bang the ball through the covers with the cover drive and can go big, straight over long off with the spin through the off side. He shows no mercy to the spinners and can send them around all over the park. David has played 106 matches, scored 2,486 runs with a batting average of 68.71 and a strike rate of 193.75 in his Indian Premiere League career so far.
Hardik Pandya can play a hard cut shot on the back foot over the off side for 6 he can play a nice short-arm jab through the legside and, he can play a nice front foot punch in front of the offside. And he can also play a glorious cover drive through the covers and, on top of that he has good cricketing brain. has played 109 matches, scored 1,976 runs with a batting average of 6.50 and a strike rate of 68.67 in his Indian Premiere League career so for
Kolkata knight Riders
Venkatesh Iyer can play technically sound straight down the ground, past the bowler on the mid-on as well as mid-off. Venkatesh Iyer can also play a pretty looking cover drive past cover and the off side boundary. He plays the slog sweep in between mid-wicket and square leg and can also pull the ball hard over mid-wicket and square leg. His bowling is an added advantage to the team and can bowl couple of overs with the ball in the match. This complete cricketer has played 24 matches, scored 589 runs with a batting average of 18.50 and a strike rate of 105.71 in his Indian Premiere League career so far.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz is a sparkling cricketer who can cut the ball fearlessly hard and play a smashing pull shot through mid-wicket and square leg. He can also play an impressive square cut through backward point and flick the ball beautifully through the legside. He is a pretty good wicketkeeper behind the stumps, who has played 2 matches, scored 79 runs with a batting average of 39.50 and a strike rate of 131.67 in his Indian Premiere League career so far.
Rinku Singh is a firry cricketer who can blaze the ball away through cover point with the cover drive. He can also pull the ball tenaciously hard in between Square leg and mid-wicket. This nuggetty cricketer can also play the scope shot mighty well over fine leg and can also slog sweep the ball very powerfully through square leg. Quick across the field, this bundle of energy has played 19 matches, scored 305 runs with a batting average of 25.00 and a strike rate of 135.14 in his Indian Premiere League career so far.
Possible 11: GT
Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha, Sai Sudharsan, Hardik Pandya, David Miller, Rashid khan, Rahul Tewatia, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, Mohammed Shami.
Possible 11: KKR
Venkatesh Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav.
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