The 59th match of IPL 2022 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad will be played on Saturday, 14 May 2022 at The Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune. The match will start at 07:30 PM local time.

KKR had struggled with the batting order in some previous matches and the most recent match against MI was a big example of it. They could manage to score 165 runs in 20 overs. Venkatesh Iyer and Rahane are opening the batting inning of Kolkata but these batters had failed to provide a good start to the team. Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer, and Andre Russell are handling the middle batting order but they also had failed in previous matches. Rinku Singh, Jackson, Pat Cummins, and Sunil Narine are available to handle the lower batting order. Venkatesh Iyer was the most successful batter in the previous match with 43 runs to his name on 24 balls with the help of three boundaries and four huge sixes. Nitish Rana also had 43 runs to his name but he faced 26 balls for this and smashed three boundaries and four huge sixes. Rahane scored 25 runs while Rinku Singh remained not out after scoring 23 runs. Four batters of KKR including Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine, Southee, and Varun Chakravarthy were the batters who could not open the account on the scoreboard.

SRH had lost momentum and had failed to give the best performance in any department of the game. They had failed in batting, bowling, and even fielding. The bowling department of Hyderabad was very poor in the previous match against RCB where they leaked 192 runs in 20 overs. J Suchith and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are leading the bowling department with Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, Umran Malik, and Abhishek Sharma but none of the above-mentioned bowlers had been good so far in IPL 2022. Many of us were expecting that Umran Malik will perform well in IPL but he had not been good. His bowling speed in good but had failed to maintain the line and length. J Suchith was the only successful bowler in the previous match with two wickets to his name in four overs against 30 runs. Kartik Tyagi picked one wicket but he leaked a lot of runs. He was charged for 42 runs in four overs. Umran Malik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, and Umran Malik were the bowlers who could not pick any wicket.

KKR had faced SRH in 22 matches where they had won 14 matches while Hyderabad had won just eight matches.

Kolkata Knight Riders had won two out of the most recent five matches they had played while Sunrisers Hyderabad had won just one match out of five recently played matches.

Kolkata Knight Riders is a strong and well-balanced team and have a strong batting and bowling department which is in good form. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger at least on papers. According to today prediction, Kolkata Knight Riders is the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make Kolkata Knight Riders a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• The bowling department of KKR is back in the good form
• KKR has a good record while playing against Hyderabad
• SRH is struggling with the batting order and they will under pressure in this match
• SRH had lost four matches continuously

Kolkata Knight Riders is overall a strong team when we compare with Sunrisers Hyderabad. They have the best players in the t20 format of cricket. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitters of the t20 format are part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today’s match for Kolkata Knight Riders have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Kolkata Knight Riders have a 54% chance to win this match
Sunrisers Hyderabad has a 46% chance to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL 2022 as we had observed in the previous matches. According to toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as defending had been difficult in the most recent matches of IPL.

The 61st match of IPL T20, 2022 is going to be held at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting in early overs. The track has a good amount of pace and bounce which allows the batsmen to the good cricketing shorts but this ground also have big boundaries which can be a plus point for the bowlers. A score of 190 plus seems to be a par score.

The weather forecast for Pune is good for this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Kolkata Knight Riders
Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Sheldon Jackson (wk), Pat Cummins, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy, Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer.

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Kane Williamson(c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Shashank Singh, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik, Abhishek Sharma.

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Date: Saturday, 14th May 2022
Time: 02:00 PM GMT, 07:30 PM LOCAL, 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium
Location: Pune, India
Opened: 2011
Known as: Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Home to: Chennai Super Kings
Floodlights: Yes

Total matches: 3
Matches won batting first: 1
Matches won bowling first: 2
Average 1st Inns scores: 153
Average 2nd Inns scores: 128
Highest total recorded: 201/6 (20 Ov) by IND vs SL
Lowest total recorded: 101/10 (18.5 Ov) by IND vs SL
Highest score chased: 158/5 (17.5 Ov) by IND vs ENG
Lowest score defended: 201/6 (20 Ov) by IND vs SL

Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Nabi, Sam Billings, Chamika Karunaratne, Pratham Singh, Abhijeet Tomar, Aman Hakim Khan, Ashok Sharma, Ramesh Kumar, Baba Indrajith, Aaron Finch, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Shivam Mavi, Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Sheldon Jackson (wk), Pat Cummins, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy.