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IPL 2020 | KKR vs DC: Match Preview, Predicted XI & Dream11 Fantasy Picks

Mayank Kumar


After having a shocker with the bat in the last game the Kolkata Knight Riders wouldn't have expected a tougher opponent than the Delhi Capitals who have looked as threatening a bowling attack as it gets in the current edition of the Indian Premier League. The KKR have suffered a lot owing to inconsistent selection policies that suggest nothing but lack of clarity in the thought process of the think tank. 


The team has looked listless in the season so far and after initial days of series of bad performances and clueless tactics, Dinesh Karthik handed over the reins for Eoin Morgan to bring freshness and agility back into the squad of players. Brendon McCullum, too, has been facing a lot of criticism for failing to inspire players to translate talents and promises into performances in the field. Proven match winners of earlier seasons such as Andre Russell and Sunil Narine have looked helpless apart from few occasions and the team management has not looked like finding any probable solution to deal with such issues. 


In the pre-match press conference, McCullum came down heavily on the batsmen for failing to start on a sportive note even after discussing the way forward in the initial overs of the batting. He slammed the batsmen for showing ‘timid’ approach against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the last game where the Knight Riders were made to look like a substandard team on such a difficult pitch to bat against the new ball.


The batting, in general, has looked lacklustre throughout the tournament barring few sparks in the form of few cameos from Eoin Morgan and Dinesh Karthik but the batsmen have not played well as a unit, and more often not have asked the bowlers to win them the game.


On the other hand, the Delhi Capitals are looking like a team to beat in the competition and with Shikhar Dhawan coming back into form the top order looks devastating against bowlers. The last time these sides played, Prithvi Shaw had taken Pat Cummins and other players to cleaners and the Knight Riders were left behind so much in the game that they could not even dare to match up to while batting.


The Delhi Capitals have been playing well as a unit and different players have stood up to the variety of challenges. The batting unit has looked aggressive and the batsmen who have been set have kept on striking big even with the fall of wickets at the other end. The strategy has paid off for the Shreyas Iyer-led side and the bowling attack has been tormenting the batting lineups in every part of the game be it with the new ball at the start, or spinners in the middle overs or death bowling in the end overs.


The Kolkata Knight Riders are positioned at the number four position on the points table while the Capitals are the table toppers. Eoin Morgan would hope for a turnaround after a dismal show against the RCB, especially with the bat.


The Capitals saw the Kings XI Punjab’s middle-order running away with the game in the middle phase in the last game and Shreyas Iyer would hope for a better return from Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel to squeeze the Kolkata’s middle order that is powered by Dinesh Karthik and Eoin Morgan.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Match details

Match Number- 42

Date: 24rd October 2020, at 3:30 PM IST, 02:00 PM Local, 10.00 AM GMT

Venue: Abu Dhabi

Broadcast: Star Sports and Hotstar

Pitch and weather

The Kolkata Knight Riders and the Delhi Capitals will lock horns on an old pitch in Abu Dhabi. Both captains would rely on their spinners to extract help from the pitch and win the game in the middle phase of innings. Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel have looked impressive in spells and they would look to form a formidable pair to challenge the middle order of KKR. On the other hand, Eoin Morgan will bank on the variety of Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakravarthy to get the better of Delhi’s middle order which is full of stroke players.


The playing conditions for players are expected to be hotter for the players, especially for the team which will be fielding first. Captains should not have a dilemma while at the toss and batting first should be an obvious option looking at the pitch and also the overhead conditions in Abu Dhabi.


Team News

Kolkata Knight Riders

The Kolkata Knight Riders had dropped Andre Russell for the last game and it was the first time since the IPL 2012 that the team played without either Sunil Narine or Andre Russell. The team had played Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Tom Banton and the skipper Eoin Morgan as the four overseas players. It could be possible that KKR opt to drop Tom Banton who has not fired in both the games he has played and bring the experience of either Russell or Narine

Expected XI

Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Sunil Narine/ Andre Russell, Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy

Delhi Capitals

With Rishabh Pant regaining his fitness and coming back into the playing XI, the Capitals look settled in their preferred playing XI with Dhawan and Shaw at the top of the order the two overseas explosive batsmen in Shimron Hetmyer and Marcus Stoinis assigned the task of closing out the games with flurry of boundaries in the end overs. The South African duo of Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje has gone strength to strength to cement the domination of the Capitals on the points table of the IPL 2020.

Expected XI

Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Daniel Sams, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Tushar Deshpande

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Dream 11 team and suggestion

Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Shreyas Iyer, Shikhar Dhawan, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan, Axar Patel, Marcus Stoinis, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Lockie Ferguson

Captain: Shreyas Iyer

Vice-captain: Eoin Morgan






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