IPL 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians – Dafanews Match Preview

Table-toppers Kolkata Knight Riders will square off against Mumbai Indians in the 60th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Saturday. When these two teams met earlier in the season, KKR won comprehensively by 24 runs.

KKR bowlers were able to defend the target of 170 as they bundled out the opposition for 145 with Mitchell Starc taking four wickets. We take a look at the head-to-head battle, Players to watch out for, and Squads of both teams in our match preview.

Mumbai Indians: W L L L L

Mumbai Indians were able to snap their four-game losing streak against SRH. But, they have been eliminated after SRH defeated LSG. However, the Hardik Pandya-led team will want to finish their season on a high. 

Kolkata Knight Riders: W W W L W

Kolkata Knight Riders have ticked the right boxes as a unit and thus they are at the top of the points table. KKR has adopted an aggressive batting approach and they have been able to reap rewards with it.

Head to Head: Matches: 33, Won by MI: 23, Won by KKR: 10.

Players to watch out for: Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, and Piyush Chawla will hold the key for MI.

Andre Russell, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, and Sunil Narine will hold the key for KKR.

MI Squad: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Luke Wood, Kwena Maphaka.

KKR Squad: Shreyas Iyer, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (AFG), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford (WI), Manish Pandey, Andre Russell (WI), Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine (WI), Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Dushmantha Chameera (SL), Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (AFG).