The 60th match of IPL 2024 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians on May 11 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
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KKR vs MI Today’s Match Prediction: The 60th match of IPL 2024 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians on May 11 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
In this season of IPL, KKR is at first place in the points table with 16 points. Whereas, Mumbai Indians is at eighth position with 8 points. For information, let us tell you that Mumbai Indians have been eliminated from the playoffs, so they will focus on spoiling KKR’s game in this match.
In this season of IPL 2024, both Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super have come face to face once. Batting first in that match, Chennai scored 206 runs in 20 overs. Chasing the target, Gujarat Titans team could score only 143 runs and Chennai won the match by 63 runs.
KKR vs MI Match Details:
KKR vs MI Pitch Report:
The pitch at Eden Gardens is generally more favorable for the batsmen. However, here both bowler and batsman get equal help. Whichever team wins the toss here will prefer to bowl first. Here spinners will get more help than fast bowlers. The average score of the first innings on this pitch is 179 runs.
Probable playing XI of Kolkata Knight Riders:
Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Angrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana.
Probable playing XI of Mumbai Indians:
Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dheer, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya (captain), Tim David, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara.
Probable Best Batter of the Match:
Sunil Narayan will play in his home ground and he can be seen batting amazingly in this match. In his last match, Sunil had played an inning of 81 runs in 39 balls which played an important role in the victory. He received the Player of the Match award for this brilliant batting.
Probable Best Bowler of the Match:
Last time this season, when Mumbai and Kolkata faced each other at the Wankhede Stadium, Mitchell Starc bowled at the top level. He took 4 wickets here due to which Mumbai was all out. Starc can emerge as the best bowler in this match.
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Who will win today’s match in Kolkata and Mumbai (KKR vs MI Today’s Match Prediction):
Looking at the excellent form Kolkata Knight Riders is in this season, it seems that they will defeat Mumbai Indians for the second time in this IPL season. In such a situation, Kolkata’s victory seems certain.
Scenario 1
Kolkata won the toss and chose to bat
Powerplay Score- 50-70
Score of first innings- 200-230
Kolkata Knight Riders won
Scenario 2
Kolkata won the toss and chose to bowl.
Powerplay Score- 40-60
Score of first innings- 150-170
Kolkata Knight Riders easily achieved the target and won
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