Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 28th Match – Live Cricket Score IPL 2023 Match

After a deflating defeat at the Chinnaswamy 4 days ago, David Warner reckoned Delhi Capitals wished to take a ‘hard look’ at themselves. The franchise will hope the smash would’ve added the much-needed intellectual rejuvenation after 5 successive losses. Only one group in the records of the IPL has ever recovered from such an ignominious begin to go all the way. For DC, going all the way is a far-off dream; for now, they want the first factors on the board.

And that pursuit will be down to how nicely their batting receives collectively and places on a cohesive effort. DC have felt the absence of Rishabh Pant, however, the batting unit, even besides him, should’ve finished higher in a couple of the losses they suffered. By his admission, Warner has struggled with timing even though he has been amongst the runs. That, blended with Prithvi Shaw’s terrible begin to the season, has intended DC to have had stuttered begins in all video games and have struggled to play trap up from there. Any threat of turning their dreadful shape and fortunes round rests with a top-order resurrection.

KKR’s plight this season is barely much less traumatic. The 4 factors on the board have come from two portions of rabbit-out-of-the-hat type of character brilliance – first from Shardul Thakur and then from Rinku Singh. Outside of that, they’ve been instead normal as a collective, even dropping the recreation the place they had a Venkatesh Iyer century. The four groups above them are solely two factors in advance and KKR has the gain of a higher Net Run Rate than all of them. The route to making the ascent is there for Nitish Rana’s side if they can put in a collective effort, as adverse to counting on character brilliance.

Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders Team News

Delhi Capitals

Tactics & Match-ups: David Warner has 228 runs this season but it has come at a strike rate of just 116.92. But this could be a fixture where he can look to give that rather unflattering statistic a jump, as he strikes at 144.62 against Umesh Yadav, at 153.04 against Sunil Narine and at 218.18 against Andre Russell. Umesh, however, has dismissed him five times in 65 balls.

Probable XI: Prithvi Shaw, David Warner (c), Mitchell Marsh, Yash Dhull, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Abhishek Porel (wk), Lalit Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Mustafizur Rahman

Kolkata Knight Riders

Tactics & Match-ups: Suyash Sharma will be licking his lips to bowl at a venue where two opposition wrist spinners – Rashid Khan and Piyush Chawla – have dismantled Delhi Capitals’ batting order to set their sides up for wins at this venue. Additionally, Umesh, KKR’s PowerPlay option, matches up well against Prithvi Shaw having dismissed him twice in 16 balls.

Probable XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz/Jason Roy, N Jagadeesan, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Varun CV, Suyash Sharma

DC vs KKR Match Squads:

Delhi Capitals Squad	Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
David Warner(c), Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Yash Dhull, Manish Pandey, Abishek Porel(w), Axar Patel, Aman Hakim Khan, Lalit Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Mustafizur Rahman, Mukesh Kumar, Sarfaraz Khan, Chetan Sakariya, Praveen Dubey, Rilee Rossouw, Rovman Powell, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Philip Salt, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ripal Patel, Vicky Ostwal	Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), N Jagadeesan, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, David Wiese, Tim Southee, Jason Roy, Litton Das, Kulwant Khejroliya, Harshit Rana, Aarya Desai

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