It’s a horror story for both teams so far at the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL) where they begun well and looked like the teams to beat, and now suddenly, they find themselves at #6 and #7 on the points table, desperately in need of big wins in order to qualify to the play-offs. We’re talking about Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders who take on each other in Match 52 of the season.
Punjab is the home team and they’re coming into this game with a 3-match losing streak on their back, while Kolkata has just recently got out of a 6-match losing streak that ended in their last game. Because of squad strength, KKR begin as slight favourites and you can keep reading this article for our complete Dotball (Sign-up here) fantasy tips and predictions for the KXIP vs KKR game…
Match info
- Tournament: Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019.
- Date: 3rd May 2019, 8:00pm IST
- Venue: Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali
- Capacity: 26,000+
- Series status: IPL 2019 round robin stage.
Form (recent first)
- KXIP: L L L W L
- KKR: W L L L L L
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Stats
- In the reverse fixture, KKR beat KXIP by 28 runs.
- Head to head, KKR lead KXIP 16-8.
- In the last 5 head to head games, KKR lead 3-2.
- KL Rahul has 520 runs in 12 innings this season.
- Andre Russell has 486 runs and 10 wickets this season.
Punjab
Squad news for Punjab is that Varun Chakravarthy, who was purchased for 8+ Crore in the IPL 2019 auction and barely used, has been ruled out of the tournament with injury. Chris Gayle has had a couple of low scoring games with 4 and 23 and I’d be tempted to leave him out today but don’t make the mistake of skipping KL Rahul, who has 79 and 42 in his last 2 innings. Mayank Agarwal also looks in brilliant touch.
As for the bowlers, Mohammed Shami has picked wickets in every game but has been slightly on the expensive side, going at 9+ runs per over. Captain Ravichandran Ashwin has also been smart with his bowling, picking 14 wickets at a decent economy this year. Mujeeb Rahman should be excluded and Sam Curran or even Andrew Tye would be the replacement. I’d skip both as Curran hasn’t been as effective in the last couple of games.
Kolkata
If you are playing a 1-on-1 fantasy cricket contest, please select Andre Russell as your captain, as he is always contributing whether with bat or with ball. Another person you can’t miss now is Chris Lynn who seems to have peaked towards the end of IPL 2019. 50, 0, 82, 1, 51, 0, 54 are his last few scores which suggests a failure every time he makes a 50+ score so I’d just be 2% cautious about this stat.
Sunil Narine also becomes a must-pick because he has now started contributing brilliantly with the ball ever since Shubman Gill took over duties as opener. Nitish Rana and Robin Uthappa scored sixties in the reverse fixture and if there’s one change I’d recommend, it would be bringing Uthappa in for Rinku Singh, who seems to be a waste of a position in this team at this point of time. He has scored 30, 3* and DNB in his 3 games this year.
KXIP vs KKR Betting
KXIP vs KKR betting
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