KKR vs SRH IPL Live Score: Kolkata Knight Riders-Sunrisers Hyderabad face-off in Qualifier 1

KKR vs SRH Today IPL Match Live Score: A staggering 1,208 sixes in 70 matches have been struck in the current edition of IPL. Leading the count with 160 in 13 matches, is none other than Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), whose batting has personified their fearless approach and helped them climb from bottom (last year) to second (this year) position in the table.

Led by the dynamic Australian pacer Pat Cummins, SRH will be eager to go the distance this time around. But first, they will have to cross a hurdle in the form of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the first qualifier in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.

Mentored by Gautam Gambhir, under whom KKR won their two IPL titles in 2014 and 2016, the Knight Riders have been the form team this season. The opening pair of West Indian Sunil Narine and Englishman Phil Salt, who has left for national duty, have hit the new ball bowlers to all parts of the ground. But with both their last league matches getting rained off, Kolkata haven’t been able to test Salt’s like-for-like replacement, Rahmanullah Gurbaz.

The middle-order comprising Venkatesh Iyer, captain Shreyas Iyer, southpaw Nitish Rana have sustained the momentum provided by the openers while Rinku Singh and Andre Russell have chipped in with vital contributions down the order.

The Sunrisers’ bowling mix of veteran pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, left-arm pacer T Natarajan and Cummins will test the KKR batting. With Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasaranga missing in action, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth has provided the spin bowling option along with left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed.

SRH have matched KKR’s might at the top of the order with left-handed batters Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma going hammer and tongs from the first ball.
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