SRH vs KKR Highlights, IPL 2023: Vaibhav, Shardul bowling heroics helps Kolkata Knight Riders get revenge vs Sunrisers

Toss is coming up and is scheduled for 7:00 PM IST.

Both sides have been in poor form this season. KKR have been faltering after a strong start, and SRH have been disastrous. Both sides will be eyeing a win.

Markande is SRH's highest wicket-taker with 10 scalps in six matches, at an economy rate of 6.41 and 15.40 average.

Roy missed KKR's clash vs GT due to a back injury and he will be hoping to return to the team and add more impetus.

Both sides met in Match 19 in the first half of this season, and SRH won by 23 runs.

Chasing a huge target of 229 runs, KKR could only reach 205/7 in 20 overs, despite half-centuries from Rana (75) and Rinku (58*). For SRH's bowling department, Markande and Jansen took two wickets each.

Initially, SRH posted 228/4 in 20 overs, courtesy of an unbeaten ton by Brook (100*). Russell took three wickets for KKR.

GT pacer Shami is in pole position in the Purple Cap race with 17 wickets in nine matches, followed by CSK's Deshpande (17) in second place. PBKS' Arshdeep is third with 16 wickets, followed by MI spinner Chawla (15) in fourth position. RCB's Siraj (15) is fifth.

SRH will probably use Natarajan as the extra seamer and change him with Samad in the batting innings. Meanwhile, KKR could sub out Jagadeesan for Rana or Arora when they bowl.

KKR have used their spinners to bowl 100-plus overs which is 60 percent of their total overs. The spinners have taken 33 dismissals, which is also the most by any franchise.

According to Accuweather, there is a 14 percent chance of rain at the start of the match. Later on it increases to 50 percent. Also the temperature is expected to be between 28-31 degrees Celsius.

RCB captain Du Plessis leads the Orange Cap race with 466 runs, followed by RR's Jaiswal (428) in second position. Meanwhile, CSK opener Conway is third with 414 runs, RCB star Kohli (364) is fourth. Conway's opening partner Gaikwad is fifth with 354 runs.

Bhuvneshwar is the highest wicket-taker in SRH vs KKR IPL matches, taking 23 wickets in 21 matches, at an economy rate of 8.05 ad 26.95 average.

Russell has been in hot form vs Bhuvneshwar and has whacked him for 72 off 34 balls, and has been dismissed twice. His strike rate of 211.76 is second-best to Pant's 239.39 within batters who faced a minimum of 25 deliveries from Bhuvneshwar.

Tripathi is also a former KKR player. But he has been good vs Narine and has faced the second-most balls (48), without losing his wicket by Narine. He has slammed 71 runs off those deliveries at a strike rate of 147.91.

SRH are currently ninth in the league standings with six points in eight matches, packed with three wins and five defeats. KKR are eighth with six points in nine fixtures, including three victories and six losses.

Both sides have faced each other 24 times in IPL, with KKR leading 14-9 vs SRH in terms of head-to-head. Meanwhile, they have clashed against each other in Hyderabad six times, and the head-to-head record there is a 3-3 tie.

SRH: Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Abdul Samad, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Akeal Hosein, Umran Malik, Marco Jansen, T Natarajan, Vivrant Sharma, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Dagar, Samarth Vyas, Anmolpreet Singh, Adil Rashid, Kartik Tyagi, Upendra Yadav, Sanvir Singh, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Nitish Reddy

KKR: N Jagadeesan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, David Wiese, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Jason Roy, Anukul Roy, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Kulwant Khejroliya, Vaibhav Arora, Aarya Desai

It's payback time for Kolkata Knight Riders, or so they would like to believe when they take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Match No. 47 of IPL 2023 at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad. Hello and welcome to the live coverage of what promises to be another close contest.