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Subhabrata Mukherjee :-
On 26th April cricket fans will see a match played outside Chennai or Mumbai. Kolkata knight Riders will lock horns with Punjab Kings in the newly constructed Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Both the teams will be eager to win the match.




Kolkata Knight Riders are in very very poor form in this tournament. After their first match win vs Sunrisers Hyderabad they have nothing to display at all. In their last match vs Rajasthan Royals they batted poorly again in Wankhede wicket and scored at least 40 runs short to gift away the match. Captain Morgan's strategies have also came under fire . They would surely love to win this match to get on track.

On the other hand Punjab would be high on confidence as they have beaten five time champion Mumbai Indians in their last match and that too quite convincingly. Rahul,Mayank,Gayle most of their top order batters seem to be in form as they would like to win this match to consolidate their position in the points table. Now take a look at what we think is the probable first XI for both the teams.




∆ Kolkata knight Riders :-

Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy, Shivam Mavi.


∆ Punjab Kings :-

KL Rahul (C & WK), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Shahrukh Khan, Fabian Allen, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi