Double headers (2 matches in a day) will be played today in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. The first match of the day will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders (GT) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). This match will be played at Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata from 3:30 pm. The toss of this match will take place at 3 pm. Apart from this, today's second match will be played between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians at 7.30 pm.
This will be Kolkata's fifth match. The team is at second position in the points table with 6 points from 4 matches with 3 wins. The team had to face defeat in a match against Chennai Super Kings. , At the same time, this will be the sixth match of Lucknow. The team is in fourth place with 6 points with 3 wins in 5 matches. The team had to face defeat in 2 matches. So far 3 matches have been played in IPL between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants. In which Lucknow has won all the matches. Only one match has been played between the two teams on the home ground of Kolkata. In that thrilling match, Lucknow won by 1 run.
The pitch of Eden Garden Stadium is favorable for batting. However, by the end of the match the spinners also come into action. So far 87 IPL matches have been played in this stadium. Here the teams batting first have won 36 matches and the teams batting later have won 51 matches. The highest score of the team in this stadium is 235, which was made by Chennai Super Kings against Kolkata last year.
Probable playing eleven for both teams
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakravarthy.
Lucknow Supergiants: KL Rahul (captain and wicketkeeper), Quinton de Kock, Devdutt Padikal, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Arshad Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur and Naveen-ul-Haq.