Kolkata and Hyderabad takes each other in the Saturday encounter of the Indian T20 League 2020.
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Hyderabad reach Abu Dhabi to take a new start after a disapoointing defeat to Bangalore. After a decent bowling show, Warner-led tried to avoid defeat, riding on Bairstow’s 61 but Chahal gave them big blows in the middle-overs. The injury issue and some unexpected errors hurt Hyderabad against Bangalore. Mitchell Marsh has been rueld out and Holder is the replacement. Hyderabad could try Mohammed Nabi or Fab Allen in Abu Dhabi.
Meanwhile, Kolkata kicked off their Indian T20 League campaign with a 49-runs defeat against Mumbai. The poor bowling show helped Mumbai to post and the batsmen also let down in the chase. Kolkata is likely to go ahead with the same playing XI. The batting order might be changed after a poor show with the bat. Kolkata are the favourites on Saturday against a struggling Hyderabad.
Pitch Report
Sheikh Zayed Stadium is a pure batting track. The track offers plenty of runs in both innings. Chasing is always an ideal call but any score above 180 might troubler batsmen in second innings. The weather is pretty good in Abu Dhabi, a perfect T20 condition.
Possible XI
Kolkata
Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (c & wk), Nikhil Naik, Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Sandeep Warrier/Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi
Hyderabad
David Warner (c), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Mohammed Nabi/Fab Allen, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan
Key Players
Kolkata
Eoin Morgan
Sunil Narine
Hyderabad
David Warner
Jonny Bairstow
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