Tata IPL 2022 – SRH vs KKR, match preview, predicted lineups

Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders face each other on Friday in a crucial encounter. Both teams will be looking for a win here.

Date & Time : 15th April 2022, 7:30 PM IST

Venue : Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Sunrisers Hyderabad despite a couple of wins to there name, find themselves in the bottom half of the points table. They will look to win some games consistently now.

SRH probably loves to chase with them winning the last couple of games chasing. In batting they have Abhishek Sharma contribute with the bat but contributions will be needed down the order. Bowling wise they have Natarajan.

Hyderabad have so far won against CSK & GT. They have lost to RR & LSG.

On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders are second in the points table with three wins in 5 games.

KKR have powerful finishers of the game in Andre Russell and Pat Cummins and they need them firing to win games to come. Top order needs a little bit improvement. While bowling wise they have consistent Umesh and Varun Chakravarthy.

KKR have so far won against CSK, PBKS & MI and lost to RCB & DC.

In terms of the head to head KKR are way ahead with 14 wins compared to a lowly 7 for SRH out of 21 games played.

For the wicket, it will be aiding the batters with bowlers with good deliveries rewarded. Teams will look to chase here.

Team news and possible lineups

There are no fresh injury concerns for both sides at the moment.

SRH XI : A. Sharma, Williamson (C), Tripathi, Pooran (WK), Markram, Samad, S. Singh, B. Kumar, Jansen, U. Malik, Natarajan.

KKR XI : Rahane, V. Iyer, S. Iyer (C), Billings (WK), Rana, Russell, Narine, P. Cummins, U. Yadav, R. Salam, Chakravarty.

Prediction

Toss is important and may decide the outcome of this match.