Delhi Capitals (DC) will be up against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the 28th match of the Indian Premier League 2023. This match will be played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Kolkata Knight Riders lost their previous match against Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets. Venkatesh Iyer became just the second batter after Mccullum to score a century for KKR in IPL. Unfortunately it did not prove to be enough as the target was chased down with ease by Mumbai. Kolkata are currently seventh in the points table and will be keen to put up a better performance.
On the other hand, Delhi Capitals have had the worst possible start to the season as they have lost all their 5 matches and are reeling at the bottom of the points table. They lost their previous match against Royal Challengers Bangalore by 23 runs while chasing a target of 174 and need to make a turnaround quickly to keep their hopes of qualification alive.
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
Delhi Capitals
David Warner(C), Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Abishek Porel(wk), P Shaw, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, MR Marsh, A Nortje, KK Ahmed, KL Yadav
BENCH : RR Rossouw, Mukesh Kumar, SN Khan, Aman Hakim Khan, P Dubey, Ishant Sharma, Yash Dhull, PD Salt, Ripal Patel, Mustafizur Rahman, KL Nagarkoti, L Ngidi, Vicky Ostwal, C Sakariya
Kolkata Knight Riders
RK Singh, JJ Roy, N Rana(C), AD Russell, SP Narine, VR Iyer, Narayan Jagadeesan(wk), Shardul Thakur, UT Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, LH Ferguson
BENCH : Mandeep Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Tim Southee, AS Roy, D Wiese, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, S Iyer, Liton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, H Rana, K Khejroliya,
PITCH REPORT
The surface here will be good for batting and the boundaries are shorter which means plenty of runs will be on offer. The spinners will be able to get some purchase of the surface. The average score is close to 160
