Live: Russell gives Kolkata’s third win. Captain KL Rahul out

Lucknow’s innings

KL Rahul out: Lucknow’s third wicket fell. Russell trapped Rahul in his trap. KL Rahul was out after scoring 39 runs on 27 balls. He hit 3 fours and 2 sixes. Lucknow scored 78 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 10.2 overs. After Rahul’s dismissal, Marcus Stoinis came to the crease as the new batsman.

10 overs: Rahul and Badoni are batting well for Lucknow. Rahul is playing after scoring 33 runs in 25 balls. Badoni is playing after scoring 18 runs in 18 balls. The team has scored 72 runs after losing 2 wickets in 10 overs.

9 overs: Sunil Narine gave only 4 runs in the 9th over of the innings. Lucknow has scored 64 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. Rahul is playing after scoring 31 runs. Badoni is playing after scoring 12 runs.

8 overs: Lucknow has scored 60 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 8 overs. Rahul is playing with 29 runs and Badoni is playing with 10 runs. Starc has bowled 3 overs for Kolkata. He has taken one wicket for 23 runs. Vaibhav Arora took 1 wicket for 16 runs in 2 overs.

7 overs: Lucknow’s score crosses 50 runs. The team has scored 54 runs after losing 2 wickets in 7 overs. KL Rahul is playing after scoring 25 runs. Ayush Badoni is playing after scoring 8 runs. Kolkata has used 4 bowlers so far. But only two bowlers could take wickets. Starc and Vaibhav have got one success each.

6 overs over: At the end of the power play, Lucknow’s score was 49 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. Badoni is playing with 5 runs in 6 balls and Rahul is playing with 23 runs in 13 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six. Vaibhav Arora and Mitchell Starc gave one success each to Kolkata.

Deepak Hooda out: Mitchell Starc gave the second blow to Lucknow. On the fourth ball of Starc, Deepak Hooda played a shot at backward point. Meanwhile, Ramandeep took a brilliant catch. Hooda was out after scoring 8 runs in 10 balls. Currently Ayush Badoni and Rahul are at the crease.

4 overs over: Lucknow scored 6 runs in the fourth over. Rahul is playing after scoring 13 runs in 8 balls. Deepak Hooda is playing after scoring 8 runs in 9 balls. The team has scored 34 runs after losing 1 wicket after 4 overs.

3 overs over: Lucknow’s score is 28 runs at the loss of one wicket. Rahul is at the crease after scoring 12 runs and Hooda has scored 4 runs.

D cock out: Vaibhav Arora gave the first blow to Lucknow. Vaibhav showed De Kock the way to the pavilion. De Kock was out after scoring 10 runs in 8 balls with the help of 2 fours. At present, Deepak Hooda and Rahul are at the crease.

1 over: Quinton de Kock hit two fours in the first over. A total of 10 runs were scored in this over.

Captain KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock have come to the crease to open for Lucknow. Mitchell Starc started the first over for Kolkata.

Kolkata won the toss

In this match, Shreyas Iyer has won the toss and decided to bowl first. A change has been made in the playing eleven of Kolkata Knight Riders. Harshit Rana has entered the playing eleven in place of Rinku Singh. Apart from this, many changes have been made in Lucknow. Devdutt Padikal was continuously performing poorly, hence he has been dropped. Naveen Ul Haq is also not playing today’s match. In place of these two, Shamar Joseph and Deepak Hooda have got a place in the playing 11. Shamar Joseph is making his debut in today’s match.

pitch report

The pitch at Eden Gardens is favorable for the batsmen. It rains fours and sixes here. One match of this season was played at Eden Gardens. Batting first in this match, Kolkata scored 208 runs. While chasing the target, Hyderabad could score only 204 runs. A total of 88 IPL matches have been played at Eden Gardens, out of which the home team has won 49 matches, while the visiting team has won 37 matches.

Head to head record of both teams

If we talk about the head to head record of Kolkata and Lucknow Super Giants, then both the teams have met a total of 3 times, in which Lucknow Super Giants have won all the matches. Batting first, Lucknow team tasted victory in all three matches.

Playing-11 of both the teams

Kolkata Knight Riders: Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy.

Impact Player: Suyyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rehmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh

Lucknow Super Giants : Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper/captain), Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Yash Thakur.

Impact Player: Arshad Khan, Prerak Mankad, M Siddharth, Amit Mishra, K Gautam