Lucknow Super Giants selected to bowl vs Kolkata Knight Riders
In the battle of two bottom-placed groups, Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant gained the toss and opted to bowl first towards Kolkata Knight Riders in Lucknow. KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane mentioned they have been anyway seeking to bat first, rendering the toss inconsequential.
Pant mentioned he was assured of a turnaround. LSG made one change, bringing in George Linde for M Siddharth. On the teamsheet, Aiden Markram was listed as opener alongside Mitchell Marsh, with Ayush Badoni marked at No. 5.
KKR have been unchanged, which meant there was no Matheesha Pathirana simply yet.
The match is being performed on pitch no. 6, which has been unused thus far this season. It is a black-soil floor, with the 2 sq. boundaries measuring 64 metres and 69 metres. The straight boundary is 73 metres.
Lucknow Super Giants: 1 Aiden Markram, 2 Mitchell Marsh, 3 Rishabh Pant (capt, wk), 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Ayush Badoni, 6 Mukul Choudhary, 7 George Linde, 8 Mohammed Shami, 9 Prince Yadav, 10 Digvesh Rathi, 11 Mohsin Khan
Impact Player choices: Himmat Singh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Akshat Raghuwanshi, M Siddharth
Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 2 Tim Seifert (wk), 3 Cameron Green, 4 Angkrish Raghuvanshi, 5 Rovman Powell, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Sunil Narine, 8 Ramandeep Singh, 9 Anukul Roy, 10 Vaibhav Arora, 11 Kartik Tyagi
Impact Player choices: Manish Pandey, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Navdeep Saini
