KKR vs GT Highlights, IPL 2023: Shankar, Gill heroics helps Gujarat Titans take revenge vs Kolkata, go top of the table

Back of a length delivery by Little, outside off. Rana waits and directs it straight to backward point for a catch!

Rana c Tewatia b Little 4 (3)

A full delivery by Little, and into middle and off. Venkatesh ties to lap it but misses terrible and it hits his back leg in front of middle and leg stump. The umpire raises his finger for lbw but Iyer reviews. No bat involved and was hitting the middle stumps!

Iyer lbw b Little 11 (14)

A leg stump yorker by Noor and Venkatesh carves it to deep midwicket for a single.

Back of a length delivery by Little, outside off. Gurbaz hits it to third man for a double and gets his fifty in 27 balls!

KKR: 80/2 (9)

A googly by Rashid, in the slot outside off. Gurbaz slams it over extra cover for a four!

Back of a length delivery by Little, outside off stump. Gurbaz guides it between backward point and short third man for a four!

Rashid tosses it up on length, outside off. Gurbaz slams it over the bowler's head for a six!

Then, Rashid sends another delivery outside off. Gurbaz paddles it over short fine leg for a four!

A full delivery by Shami, into the stumps. Shardul puts his front foot forward but can only loft it to the fielder at mid-on for a good catch!

Shardul c Sharma b Shami 0 (4)

KKR: 47/2 (5)

A full delivery by Pandya, into leg stump. Gurbaz makes room for himself and launches it over deep square leg for a six!

KKR: 35/1 (3.4)

A poor delivery by Hardik, outside off. Gurbaz walks across to clobber it over fine leg boundary for a six and it flies into the stands!

A full delivery by Shami, angling into off. Jagadeesan goes across but it hits his pads and he fails to connect! G APPEAL AND LBW GIVEN!

The KKR opener reviews and there is no bat involved. Impact is in line and ball tracking shows it was hitting middle stump!

Jagadeesan lbw b Shami 19 (15)

KKR: 23/1 (2.5)

The first delivery is a dot ball by Hardik. Then he sends a back of a length delivery, on middle and leg. Jagadeesan gets a thick outside edge over slip for a four! Then it is a wide. In the fourth delivery, Jagadeesan cuts Hardik past backward point for another four, followed by a dot ball. In the final ball, Jagadeesan top edges him to third man where the fielder misfields and it goes for a four!

KKR: 16/0 (2)

A full delivery by Shami, outside off. Gurbaz carves it into the leg side and takes a double, helped by a misfield too!

A full delivery by Shami, on middle and leg. Jagadeesan taps it to mid-on. A dot ball to begin with.

Jagadeesan and Gurbaz to open for KKR. Shami to bowl the opening over for GT.

The match will start at 4:15 PM IST. Also, no overs have been deducted.

The final covers are being removed. There is some water on the covers but not that much to create a worry. We should not be away from the start. A full game is likely but we still await official confirmation

Inspection is scheduled for 3:40 PM IST.

The covers are being taken off now as the sun is coming through the clouds.

The entire ground is under covers now due to rain!

KKR: N Jagadeesan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Shardul Thakur, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

GT: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya(c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Joshua Little

After winning toss, GT captain Pandya said, "We will bowl first. Just because of the weather, it was bright and we thought we should bat, but it has changed now. I'm pretty happy with where we are, 7 games gone, 7 more to come, we need to play good cricket and qualify for the playoffs. We are playing the same team."

Meanwhile, KKR skipper Rana said, "We would have batted first, DLS could come into the equation, but we would still have batted first. There are always areas where we can improve, we have had some forced changes - Jason Roy has a back issue, he's replaced by Gurbaz. Harshit Rana replaces Umesh Yadav."

GT captain Hardik wins toss, opts to bowl vs KKR.

For KKR, Southee and Ferguson have been expensive and Umesh has failed to make an impact. On the other, Shardul has been recovering from an injury. Also, Russell has put in some decent displays with the ball, but his batting has been poor. But their spinners Varun and Suyash have been in hot form and have scalped 22 wickets beteen them!

Pandya's strike rate of 102 vs pace in IPL 2023 is the second-lowest among all batters this season, who have faced at least 50 deliveries. He will be looking to improve on that.