Just In | Ishant Sharma, Phil Salt Come in; Nitish Rana Forgets KKR's Four Changes
Nitish Rana & David Warner at toss (Twitter)
In the rain-delayed clash between Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders, both teams have made tons of changes to their Starting XIs. David Warner's home team has opted to bring in the workhorse Ishant Sharma. They have also handed the IPL debut cap to hard-hitting English batter Phil Salt. Meanwhile, Kolkata have made four changes, bringing in Jason Roy, IPL debutant Litton Das, Kulwant Khejroliya and Mandeep Singh.
However, at the toss, KKR skipper Nitish forgot to name the four changes that they have made for the clash against Delhi.
"I'm playing after three years on this ground. Feeling great to come back and play here. We have four changes. It's a difficult job to remember those and please don't ask (laughs). We will try to improve from the last game and step up tonight," Rana said at the coin flip.
Apart from Ishant and Phil Salt, Delhi have replaced Mukesh Kumar with Yush Dhull. But the U-19 World Cup-winning captain is one of the Impact Player subs. The other subs are Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan, Ripal Patel and Chetan Sakariya.
Nitish Rana's KKR have seated Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Narayan Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, and Lockie Ferguson. But interestingly, Jagadeesan is part of the Impact Player substitutes alongside Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, and David Wiese.
DC's Warner won the toss at Delhi and decided to bowl first against Kolkata on Thursday. Fortunately, despite heavy rain, no overs have been lost of yet.
Starting XIs
Delhi Capitals Playing XI
David Warner (c), Mitchell Marsh, Manish Pandey, Philip Salt (wk), Lalit Yadav, Aman Khan, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI
Litton Das (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Jason Roy, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana (c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy
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