Kolkata Knight Riders will host Rising Pune Supergiant at the Eden Gardens in Match 41 of the 2017 IPL on Wednesday.
Kolkata will want to get back to winning ways, having suffered just their third loss of the season versus Sunrisers Hyderabad as they came up against David Warner in full form.
On the other hand, Pune are coming off a thrilling win against Gujarat Lions where Ben Stokes struck an unbeaten century after coming into bat when the score read 10-3.
Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, start time and date, as well as how you can watch all the action from the UAE.
DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO
Date: May 3, 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 18:30 GST, 20:00 local time (IST), 14:30 GMT
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO
TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports
Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)
LIVE: Sport360.com
TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs
KKR SQUAD: Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Trent Boult, Chris Woakes, Rishi Dhawan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rovman Powell, R Sanjay Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Darren Bravo, Sayan Ghosh, Colin de Grandhomme
The Knight Riders bowlers didn’t have the greatest of days against the Sunrisers and will be keen to bounce back at home where they have generally bowled brilliantly this season.
Sheldon Jackson struggled to get the big shots away in the last match and that might tempt the KKR team management to bring Suryakumar Yadav back into the playing XI.
PREDICTED KKR XI: Narine, Gambhir (c), Uthappa (wk), Pandey, Pathan, Jackson, de Grandhomme, Woakes, Kuldeep, Coulter-Nile, Umesh
RPS SQUAD: MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith, Faf du Plessis, Ashok Dinda, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Ankit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Adam Zampa, Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar, Usman Khawaja, Mayank Agarwal, Ben Stokes, Jaydev Unadkat, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Dan Christian, Milind Tandon, Rahul Tripathi, Manoj Tiwary, Lockie Ferguson, Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir, Washington Sundar
Pune’s turnaround this season has been quite extraordinary. After losing three out of their first four matches, they have won five out of the last six and are in a very good position to qualify for the playoffs.
Unless there are any fitness issues, they are unlikely to change their XI from the one that beat Gujarat.
PREDICTED RPS XI: Rahane, Tripathi, Smith (c), Dhoni (wk), Tiwary, Stokes, Christian, Sundar, Thakur, Unadkat, Tahir
FORM
(Last five matches – with latest match first)
KKR: L W W W L
RPS: W W L W W
MATCH PREDICTION
Kolkata to make use of home advantage and get the win.