At a gala match on Saturday, two important teams of this Indian Premier League (IPL) 2017; Mumbai Indians (MI) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are all set to compete with each other. Both KKR and Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) are now in the tied position with 16 points from 13 games both teams are having on its kitty. Obviously, Kolkata will try to beat Mumbai as Kolkata is now wishing to set their position at the IPL points table and move to Play-off round now with their amazing thumping style.
This is the final game that will be played by the teams at the Eden Gardens. Both teams will try to play a memorable game as the city of joy, Kolkata which is also the home ground of the KKR will witness 85,000 spectators at the stadium and a million of people also watch the match at their home.
KKR vs MI Live Score Match 53rd Vivo Ipl 10 2017
Mumbai skipper Rohit Sharma is currently having the good record at the Kolkata home ground so tonight match is going to be knock-out anyway!
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- IPLT20.com
- Cricbuzz.com
- ESPNCricinfo.com
- Hotstar.com online
Team News for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
KKR’s newly invented batsman, Sunil Narine is definitely ging to do a wonderful job at the IPL season 10 tonight’s match. He will have to lead the KKR’s spin bowling style and Mumbai’s long batting line up. Until now, Narine scalped 10 wickets from 13 matches at an economy of 7.10. He collected till now 214 runs with the bat at a sublime strike rate of 184.
KKR’s batting hugely depends on the experienced of the trio Chris Lynn, Gambhir and Robin Uthappa on top. Then the team is also depending on the key players Yusuf Pathan and Manish Pandey who are stars of the middle order. So, if MI post anything lesser than 190-run mark then it will not come as the problem for KKR as those scored KKR can chase down effortlessly.
In Bowling, KKR will expect something amazing from the experienced bowlers like Umesh Yadav, Woakes, Narine and Piyush Chawla. Bowlers will have to bowl cautiously now if they want to stop Mumbai from coring high. Dew factor will certainly help the team and their batting style.
Team News for Mumbai Indians (MI)
Mumbai have nothing to lose now if even it will be beaten by the team Kolkata. But just before the play-off, they definitely like to play well in front of the strong team Kolkata which will enhance their reputation. The men-in-blue have a solid batting and bowling combination and they are worth to defeat Kolkata Knight Riders.
Mumbai’s batting is pretty well and the top order batsmen also collected massive runs. Especially, its top order including the team is having star Cricketers’ including, Parthiv Patel, Simmons, Rohit Sharma and Nitish Rana – and they are worth enough to bring a winning math on the Mumbai’s kitty.
However, Mumbai will have to improve its bowling as the bowlers are failing to perform excellently on this season and opponents smashed now more than 180 runs a lot of time.
At the last match, leggie Karn Sharma bowled with 3 for 24 at the crucial juncture of the match. He is expected to get priority now with all rounder Krunal Pandya. Rest of the MI bowlers are such as McClenaghan, Malinga, Harbhajan Singh and Bumrah.
Predicted Playing XI (Both Teams)
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR): Gautam Gambhir (Captain), Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa (Wicket Keeper), Piyush Chawla, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Colin de Grandhomme, Chris Woakes, Sunil Narine and Ankit Rajpoot.
Mumbai Indians (MI): Lendl Simmons, Parthiv Patel (Wicket Keeper), Nitish Rana, Rohit Sharma (Captain), Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Karn Sharma, Mitchell McClenaghan and Jasprit Bumrah.
Match Result Prediction: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will win.
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