Delhi eyes comeback while the Knights look to extend lead at the top

In a tale of two contrasting sides, a soaring Kolkata Knight Riders will be colliding with an ailing Delhi Capitals as both sides have so far played out absolutely polarizing campaigns. The Knights will be coming to this fixture on the back of a stunning win against the Mumbai Indians where Pat Cummins stitched together a mind-bending knock with the bat.

The Delhi Capitals, on the contrary, will be raring to get their season back on track after consecutive defeats that saw them coming apart at the seams against the Lucknow Super Giants and the Gujarat Titans.

The Knights have so far bagged 3 wins out of their 4 matches with the solitary defeat coming at the hands of the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Delhi were off to a sublime start but shortly came a cropper as their batters failed to conjure something significant against both the Titans and the Giants.

Kolkata will be a confident side coming to this contest as Umesh Yadav has been in rambunctious form and currently leads the race for the Purple Cap. He will be joined by Pat Cummins.

Delhi was happy to welcome back David Warner but the Australian southpaw failed to rack up something significant, endangering Delhi’s campaign further that is still looking for a reliable batting show from their craftsmen with the willow in their hands.

So far going by the outings, pen and paper would label this clash as an archetypal David-versus-Goliath contest, but cricket has never been done right on pen and paper.

Venue Watch:

Brabourne Stadium has so far been excessively conducive to the batters and the sides chasing has managed to find themselves in what one would call the perfect paradise for the willow wielders. There will be slight assistance for the spinners but that will only be coming into play in the latter half of the story. The pacers will have the initial sway as the ball will move around and the pacers can also extract some bounce from the surface but again it would hardly be for the opening 3 to 5 overs.

Squads:

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Shreyas Iyer, Pat Cummins, Abhijeet Tomar, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, Ramesh Kumar, Mohammed Nabi, Aman Khan, Umesh Yadav, Nitish Rana, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Dar, Chamika Karunaratne, Baba Indrajith, Ashok Sharma, Pratham Singh.

Delhi Capitals:

Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Ashwin Hebbar, Abhishek Sharma, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, KS Bharat, Mandeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungi Ngidi, Vicky Ostwal, Sarfaraz Khan.

Match Details:

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals

Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Date: 10th April 2022

Time: 3:30 PM IST