KKR vs SRH, IPL 2024 Match no 3 Match Preview, Head-to-head stats, Possible Playing XIs, Dream11 team prediction

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will host Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their first game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata. KKR will be led by Shreyas Iyer, who is currently the most experienced captain in the tournament. On the other hand, Pat Cummins, who had a terrific 2023 as the leader of Australia, will look to bring SRH's old glory back. As we gear up for the third match of IPL 2024, we bring you the match preview, head-to-head stats, possible XIs and Dream11 team prediction of the KKR vs SRH match in Kolkata.

Match Details

Match: KKR vs SRH, match no. 3, IPL 2024

Date: 23 March 2024

Time: 7.30 pm IST

Venue: Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium, Kolkata

Streaming details: Jio Cinema, Star Sports

Pitch Report

Eden Gardens has been very much batting-friendly in the last few years. In the last season, four out of seven matches played at the venue crossed the 200 mark. Hence, it can be said, there will be runs in the KKR vs SRH match as well.

T20I matches record at Eden Gardens

Total matches - 11

Matches won batting first - 5

Matches won bowling first - 6

KKR vs SRH head-to-head stats

Team News

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata have been boosted by Gautam Gambhir's mind and presence, who is still the most successful KKR leader in IPL history. Gambhir's presence as the mentor will certainly help the franchise plan and fight for the glory this time. Shreyas Iyer will lead them, who will be coming from an injury.

However, the main attraction for the KKR fans will be the most expensive player in IPL history, Mitchell Starc. Starc will be fresh after a break from international cricket and will be rearing to unleash on the Sunriseres batters. Along with him, young uncapped players like Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora and Sakib Hussain will be under the spotlight with the ball in hand.

Gurbaz, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, and Rinku Singh can be key hold for KKR in the batting lineup along with Manish Pandey who just like Gautam Gambhir had a successful stint for the men in purple. Andre Russell and Sunil Narine will always be the key factors for them.

There are no reports of injury and everyone in the squad is available for the selection.

SRH

Sunrisers Hyderabad have fairly a new-looked team after their failures in recent years. They have brought in Pat Cummins as their leader and that can be a huge thing for them since no other leader in world cricket has been as successful as the Aussie pacer in the last 12 months. Along with him, Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klassen will bring leadership skills to the team as well. Mayank Agarwal and Rahul Tripathi will be their main Indian batters while Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed and Bhubaneshwar Kumar will play huge roles with the ball in hand for them.

Travis Head can be one of the players to watch out for in this year's IPL after a successful ICC World Cup 2023 with the Australian Cricket team. Wanindu Hasaranga will not be available for the KKR vs SRH clash as he will be getting ready to play the Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka test series. Players like Mayank Markande and Adil Rashid can come in to fill the leg spinner's role for them.

Head Coach Dan Vettori has set the tone for our first match of #IPL2024🧡 pic.twitter.com/zKcb9wzsCu

— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) March 23, 2024

KKR vs SRH: Possible playing XIs

KKR: Venkatesh Iyer, Phil Salt (wk), Shreyas Iyer (capt), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy. [ Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey and Vaibhav Arora can be the options for impact player ]

SRH: Mayank Agarwal, Travis Head, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Pat Cummins (capt), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik [ T Natarajan, Marco Jansen and Jaydev Unadkat can be the options for impact player ]

KKR vs SRH: Dream11 team prediction