Find out team news, TV and streaming information, odds, weather forecasts and much, much more ahead of the next game of the 2021 Indian Premier League season
Kolkata Knight Riders meet Delhi Capitals in the 2021 Indian Premier League.
The game is scheduled for 2pm UAE (11am BST, 3.30pm IST) on Tuesday, September 28, 2021.
The two sides will meet at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah.
Delhi Capitals are second in the IPL table after 10 matches, behind Chennai Super Kings on net run rate. The 2020 runners-up have been defeated just twice in this season and are currently on a four-match winning streak. Since arriving in the UAE, the Capitals have defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by eight wickets and Rajasthan Royals by 33 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders are well and truly in the race for play-off qualification, with four wins and six defeats in their 10 matches to date. The Knight Riders lost five of their eight matches in India before starting the UAE leg with a seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians. In their most recent outing, they suffered a two-wicket defeat against Chennai Super Kings.
In the reverse fixture Delhi Capitals won by seven wickets.
Delhi Capitals are the favourites to take this one, with Dafabet offering odds of 4/6. Kolkata Knight Riders are available at 6/5.
Shubman Gill is the favourite to top-score for KKR, with odds of 13/5, while Shikhar Dhawan is available at 11/5 for Delhi Capitals.
Shreyas Iyer has impressed with the bat for Delhi Capitals in the UAE, scoring 47 not out off 41 balls against Sunrisers and 43 off 32 against Rajasthan Royals. The 26-year-old missed the first half of the tournament through injury but is shining on his return to the XI. Showman Rishabh Pant has been Iyer's third-wicket partner in Delhi's past two outings, with the duo sharing stands of 62 (45 balls) and 67 (42).
With the ball, Anrich Nortje, ranked 178th in the T20 Player Index, has taken four wickets in two appearances to date, returning figures of 2 for 12 against Sunrisers and 2 for 18 against Rajasthan.
For KKR, Rahul Tripathi is their form batsman. The 30-year-old has scored 119 runs in his past two matches - 11 more than Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer and Eoin Morgan combined. Tripathi is unsurprisingly KKR's leading run-scorer, with 306 runs in nine innings at a strike rate of 143.66. Lower down the order, there could be fireworks from Dinesh Karthik, who struck 26 runs off just 11 balls against Chennai Super Kings.
Tim Southee replaces Pat Cummins in KKR's squad for the UAE leg.
Chris Woakes is unavailable for Delhi Capitals after opting out of the second half of the tournament while Marcus Stoinis, who missed the match against Rajasthan with an injured hamstring, is a doubt. Sam Billings, who arrived in the UAE on September 21, could be selected for Delhi, depending on his match fitness after his six-day quarantine.
The two teams have played each other 27 times.
Kolkata Knight Riders wins: 14
Delhi Capitals wins: 12
No result: 1
Hot and sunny in Sharjah, with temperatures expected to peak at 37 degrees Celsius.
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Yes, a limited number of fans are allowed to attend games during the IPL's UAE leg.
Delhi Capitals are in form and comfortably won the reverse fixture. Delhi Capitals win.
IPL TEAM GUIDES
Sky Sports have the rights in the United Kingdom.
You can aso stream the tournament using the Disney+ Hotstar digital platform, though the matches are only available for VIP or Premium subscribers.
Star Sports have the television rights in India.
Streaming service YuppTV have acquired digital streaming rights in a host of markets, including Australia, continental Europe, Malaysia, Southeast Asia with the exception of Singapore, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Central Asia, and Central and South America.
In the USA, the games will be broadcast on Willow TV and the Willow TV website. Fox Sports have the broadcasting rights in Australia, while Supersport will televise the games in South Africa. In the Caribbean, Flow TV have the rights.
The following broadcasters owning the rights for their respective regions:
Bangladesh: Channel 9
Afghanistan: Lemar TV
Malaysia: Measat
MENA/UAE: BeIN Sport
Hong Kong: Now TV
Singapore: SingTel
New Zealand: Sky Sport
Papua New Guinea: EMTV
Kolkata Knight Riders squad: Dinesh Karthik, Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakravarthy, Pawan Negi, Tim Seifert, Shakib al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Tim Southee
Delhi Capitals squad: Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Lalit Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Anrich Nortje, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Lukman Hussain Meriwala, M Siddharth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings, Pravin Dubey, Vishnu Vinod
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy
Delhi Capitals: Privthi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Shimron Hetmyer, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Avesh Khan
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