Linde in as LSG bowl; no Pathirana yet for KKR

Lucknow Super Giants selected to bowl vs Kolkata Knight Riders

In the battle of two bottom-placed groups, Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant gained the toss and opted to bowl first in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders in Lucknow. KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane mentioned they have been anyway trying to bat first, rendering the toss inconsequential.

Pant mentioned he was assured of a turnaround. LSG made one change, bringing in George Linde for M Siddharth. On the teamsheet, Aiden Markram was listed as opener alongside Mitchell Marsh, with Ayush Badoni marked at No. 5.

KKR have been unchanged, which meant there was no Matheesha Pathirana simply yet.

The match is being performed on pitch no. 6, which has been unused to this point this season. It is a black-soil floor, with the 2 sq. boundaries measuring 64 meters and 69 meters. The straight boundary is 73 meters.

Lucknow Super Giants: 1 Aiden Markram, 2 Mitchell Marsh, 3 Rishabh Pant (capt, wk), 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Ayush Badoni, 6 Mukul Choudhary, 7 George Linde, 8 Mohammed Shami, 9 Prince Yadav, 10 Digvesh Rathi, 11 Mohsin Khan

Impact Player choices: Himmat Singh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Akshat Raghuwanshi, M Siddharth

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 2 Tim Seifert (wk), 3 Cameron Green, 4 Angkrish Raghuvanshi, 5 Rovman Powell, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Sunil Narine, 8 Ramandeep Singh, 9 Anukul Roy, 10 Vaibhav Arora, 11 Kartik Tyagi

Impact Player choices: Manish Pandey, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Navdeep Saini