Dubai: Rajasthan Royals (RR) have won the toss and chosen to bowl against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Dubai International Stadium. Lockie Ferguson has missed today's match.
This is a do or die clash for both sides as whoever win will qualify or the playoffs.
For KKR, Shivam Mavi has returned to the XI in place of Rinku Singh.
Meanwhile, RR are unchanged for today's match.
Eoin Morgan:We would have prefered to chase. It's not a night for holding back and on top of that we need to improve the NRR. He (Andre Russell) is back and it is great to have him back and so let's hope tonight is the night. Lockie is out. Rinku Singh misses out and Shivam Mavi comes in. As a side you want to get into a position to win the game and then think about other (NRR) scenarios
Steve Smith: We will bowl first, dew seems to be coming in and that's the big reason. We have bowled well majority of the tournament and hopefully, we will go well tonight. The games we haven't done well, our senior batters haven't done well and fortunately, Stokes and Samson are in good nick. We are unchanged.
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan (captain), Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Andre Russell, Rahul Tripathi, Pat Cummins, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy
Rajasthan Royals: Robin Uthappa, Ben Stokes, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Steven Smith (captain), Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Jofra Archer, Shreyas Gopal, Varun Aaron, Kartik Tyagi
