IPL 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders Playing 11 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

IPL 2025 match 15 is between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrises Hyderabad which was last year's final. Kolkata won last year's final led by Shreyas Iyer which was an elite match but for SRH it was a heartbreak. Both teams are going to meet at Eden Gardens which will produce a great impact. SRH will be seeking revenge which they received in last year's final. It will be a cracker of a game that can swing at either side. 

Kolkata Knight Riders seem to be fading away this season as they started off with a loslossKR entered the league as the champion side and it was the different captain who was leading the team. Rahane who was bought by KKR at 1.5 crore was made as captain for this year. In their tenure of three games, KKR have won only one game and lost two of their games.

 
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Kolkata Knight Riders Out Of Form

Kolkata started their campaign against RCB who are looking for a red-hot team for the period faced their first match at Eden Gardens. RCB won the toss and elected to field first where Kolkata Knight Riders scored 174 runs with the loss of 8 wickets, whereas in reply RCB chased the target with 22 balls to spare and only lost three wickets. The next match was against Rajasthan Royals which was quite an anticipated match. 

Rahane won the toss and elected to field first, Rajasthan couldn't stumble  KKR's bowling attack and they scored 151 runs with the loss of 9 wickets, KKR chased the target comfortably by just losing 3 wickets only, it looked like Kolkata had rectified all of their mistakes which they did in the previous match but it was totally wrong when it came down to 3rd match.
Kolkata's third match was an away game where they were to face the struggling Mumbai side at their home ground. Mumbai won the toss and chose to field first. Kolkata's batting order was under total fall of collapse where debutant Ashwani Kumar from Mumbai took 4 wickets, Kolkata only made 116 runs which would be nowhere near to Mumbai Indians batting lineup. They chased the target with 43 balls to spare. Kolkata players are really out of form whereas players like Narine, and Russel are struggling to get the rhythm back. Their next game is against Hyderabad who are ready to seek revenge for last year's final. 

Kolkata Knight Riders Playing 11

Quinton De Cock (wk) 
Venkatesh Iyer
Ajinkya Rahane (c) 
Rinku Singh,
Andre Russell
Ramandeep Singh
Sunil Narine
Spencer Johnson
Vaibhav Arora
Harshit Rana
Varun Chakaravarthy