Desperate Lions hope for Eden respite
The bottom-placed team enters the Eden Gardens stronghold after Kolkata Knight Riders had already smacked them by 10 wickets earlier in the tournament
The Preview by Alagappan Muthu
20-Apr-2017
Match facts
Kolkata Knight Riders v Gujarat Lions
Kolkata, April 21, 2017 Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)
Kolkata, April 21, 2017 Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)
Head to head
This season: Kolkata Knight Riders thumped Gujarat Lions with 10 wickets and 31 balls to spare, chasing a target of 184.
Overall: Lions still lead 2-1
In the news
This is the mismatch of the season. Kolkata Knight Riders have overcome the loss of one of their biggest players - Andre Russell - so well that another of their biggest players - Shakib Al Hasan - is struggling to break into the XI.
Lions are so badly reeling from the absence of Dwayne Bravo that they have tried all but one of their 14 players with international caps. The West Indian allrounder said he was still a "couple of games" away from fully recovering from a hamstring injury so his team has to find a way to cope.
The likely XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Gautam Gambhir (capt), 2 Colin de Grandhomme, 3 Robin Uthappa (wk), 4 Manish Pandey, 5 Yusuf Pathan, 6 Suryakumar Yadav, 7 Chris Woakes/Shakib Al Hasan, 8 Nathan Coulter-Nile, 9 Sunil Narine, 10 Kuldeep Yadav, 11 Umesh Yadav/Piyush Chawla.
Gujarat Lions: 1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Dwayne Smith, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Aaron Finch/Jason Roy/James Faulkner, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Ishan Kishan, 8 Andrew Tye, 9 Basil Thampi, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Shadab Jakati
Strategy punt
Stats that matter
Alagappan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo