Kolkata, A resurgent Delhi Capitals will look to use Kolkata Knight Riders' bowling vulnerabilities and ascend to top-four within the desk throughout their Indian Premier League match right here on Monday.
With 4 wins of their final 5 matches, the Rishabh Pant-led facet is steadily assembling their items and beginning to appear like a drive to be reckoned with.
However, the Gautam Gambhir-mentored facet has endured three defeats of their final 5 matches with their profligacy in bowling hurting them badly.
Signed up as Lungi Ngidi's alternative, Aussie Jake Fraser-McGurk has confirmed to be their X-factor together with his ferocious batting show on the prime.
A pure power-hitter with excellent hand-eye coordination, the 22-year-old has taken the IPL by storm scoring 247 runs in 5 matches at a strike-rate of 237.50.
His brutal therapy of the in any other case sensational Jasprit Bumrah stands as an affidavit of his skill-level. McGurk slammed a slower ball from the Mumbai Indians pacer for a six and it was the primary time a batter lofted Bumrah for a first-ball six.
The pacer conceded 18 runs in his first over, essentially the most by him on this season in a single over as DC overcame MI by 10 runs on Saturday.
He made a 27-ball 84 in opposition to MI, and McGurk will relish the batting-friendly situations at Eden Gardens the place 523 runs, together with a document 42 sixes, had been scored between Punjab Kings and KKR.
The PBKS on that event had scaled down a world document 262.
However DC's batting just isn’t solely about McGurk, the South African Tristian Stubbs additionally left everybody in awe together with his astonishing power-hitting, smashing a 25-ball 48 not out in opposition to Mumbai.
Pant can be making speedy progress with each match because the DC top-five in Fraser-McGurk, Abhishek Porel, Shai Hope, Pant and Stubbs can be a explanation for concern for KKR bowling.
The KKR changed injured Mitchell Starc with Sri Lankan pacer Dushmantha Chameera however the latter gave away 16 runs per over in his debut for KKR and did not encourage any confidence.
Barring spinner Sunil Narine, who returned with 1/24 from his 4 overs, not one of the KKR bowlers made any influence.
IPL's costliest purchase Starc has been their greatest letdown and KKR would hope that the Aussie hits his stride quickly after overcoming the thumb damage.
In bowling, Kuldeep Yadav who was sidelined beneath Dinesh Karthik whereas he was with KKR, will look to show a degree in opposition to the Kolkatans as he together with left-arm spinner Axar Patel has shaped a formidable spin pair.
Nonetheless, the house facet has some positives to look as much as. Narine's sensational type with the bat 357 runs from eight matches with two fifties and one century has given a thrust to their batting up the order this season.
Narine and Phil Salt have scored bulk of their runs on the prime, however the likes of Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell and Ramandeep Singh should chip in with a bit extra runs.
After this match, KKR can be on the street to face Mumbai and Lucknow, therefore they are going to be wanting to register a win earlier than these harder assignments and hold themselves within the play-off race.
Groups:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain and Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Abishek Porel, Ricky Bhui, Yash Dhull, Shai Hope, Prithvi Shaw, Tristan Stubbs, Kumar Kushagra, Swastik Chikara, Ishant Sharma, Jhye Richardson, Rasikh Dar Salam, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Mukesh. Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Khaleel Ahmed, Sumit Kumar, Axar Patel, Gulbadin Naib, Lalit Yadav, Jake Fraser-McGurk.
Match begins: 7.30pm.
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