Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Highlights: Rana's heroic final over helps KKR halt Klaasen's charge, win thriller

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 toss: Pat Cummins won the toss in his first outing as Sunrisers Hyderabad captain, inviting Kolkata Knight Riders to bat in the second match of the Saturday double-header.

Playing XIs:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Jansen, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 preview: Pat Cummins is set to face Australian pace colleague Mitchell Starc in Saturday’s showdown between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Kolkata’s Eden Gardens.

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Starc and Cummins became the most expensive players in the history of the IPL during the player auction in December, going to KKR and SRH for Rs 24.75 crore and Rs 20.5 crore respectively, the latter becoming the first player to breach the 20-crore mark in the cash-rich league.

Both teams will be aiming to open their account with a win in the second match of the Saturday double-header. Additionally, both KKR and SRH are set for a change in leadership in the 17th season, with Cummins and Shreyas Iyer replacing Aiden Markram and Nitish Rana as captain of SRH and KKR respectively.

Cummins had led Australia to victory in last year’s ICC World Test Championship as well as the ODI World Cup, which would’ve made him a favourite for the leadership role in the eyes of the SRH team management despite Markram leading the franchise to back-to-back victories in SA20.

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Iyer, on the other hand, returns to the IPL after missing the 2023 edition due to a back injury, with Rana filling in for the Mumbaikar on an ad-hoc basis.