🏏 IPL 2025 ~ 21st Match: KKR vs LSG at Eden Gardens @3.30 PM🏏 - Page 2

In the spotlight: Ravi Bishnoi and Vaibhav Arora

Ravi Bishnoi's effectiveness has dropped since IPL 2024. This season, it has worsened. He has the poorest economy of all spinners in IPL 2025 with only three wickets in four outings. Rathi is outshining him, and despite being one of three retained LSG players before the mega auction, Bishnoi could lose his place in the XII if his season does not turn around. The surface on Tuesday, though, could suit him.

Vaibhav Arora was called KKR's powerplay specialist by Venkatesh after their win last game. Left-handed batters average only 9.60 against him, but against right-hand batters, like the openers he will encounter on Tuesday, he has been less effective. They score at a strike rate of 152.63 and average nearly 38 against Arora. Will he be able to turn it around?

Stats and trivia

• Only two times has a captain opted to bat at the toss this season. Both were in day games
• Since IPL 2023, the team batting first has won eight of the 17 games at Eden Gardens. The average first innings score has been 191 while the lowest total defended is 176 (excluding shortened games)
• In 19 balls across five innings, Russell has hit Thakur for 54 runs at a strike-rate of 284
• Pooran has scored only 25 runs in 33 balls against Narine in the IPL

Pitch and conditions

It was a sticky surface with patches lacking grass last time. Expect the same for the LSG fixture. Dew should not be a factor in the second innings although temperatures are expected to be around 33 degrees during start time, which could dictate the toss decision.

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The contest between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants offers a unique rivalry in the Indian Premier League - one between the fans of a football club [Mohun Bagan also owned by owners of LSG] and a cricket team. Last year, the franchise and the club expressed their displeasure over each other's efforts to claim turf at the Eden Gardens. This year, it shouldn't be any different.

Amidst chatter about the lack of crowd in one of India's most iconic stadiums, this contest on Tuesday presents an opportunity to test the weight of this passionate rivalry. But beyond the question of who brings the fans to the stadium is a bigger question: which of the two teams, scratchy and middling so far this season, will pick momentum and put themselves among the table toppers.

Despite the inconsistent performances so far, both teams find themselves in a position to move to the top-four by the end of Tuesday's contest. For that, they would need some of their most potent weapons to regain their prime touch, especially in the batting department.

While for KKR their biggest concern would be the lack of power-starts from their openers, which was a pivotal feature of their tournament-winning campaign last season, for LSG there are bigger concerns. Even as both Sunil Narine and Quinton de Kock have one big innings to show, there is still more dependency than deliverance from them so far at the top.

For LSG, the concerns are bigger. Rishabh Pant, their captain, has struggled to find his touch. Pant, who aggregated 446 runs at 40.55 (SR: 155.40) with just one single-digit score last season, has scored only 19 runs at a strike-rate of 59.37 in three outings this season. And on a surface, where the ball is expected to hold on a bit, shot-making is not going to get any easier.

Either way, despite having won their respective previous games rather convincingly, both teams have largely been rusty and far from gaining the momentum they would like. There are ample areas to fine-tune on before heading into the middle phase of the league stage.

If there is one place where they would want to accelerate find these perfect performances coming, it would be in front of their 'home' fans!

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Kolkata Knight Riders have two wins and two losses in four matches and are placed fifth in the table. They beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 80 runs in the previous match and will be confident, especially playing at their home.

On the other hand, Lucknow Super Giants are placed sixth in the table with two wins and as many losses in four matches. They beat Mumbai Indians in the previous match and will be looking to put up another good performance. This promises to be an exciting match.

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