Mumbai Indians win the toss against Kolkata Knight Riders; choose to bowl first

The 60th match of the IPL 2024 season will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday, May 11, 2024. However, Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bowl first.

Kolkata Knight Riders won eight games so far and lost three as well. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians won four games so far and they lost eight games as well. However, both teams will try to win the game and keep the momentum on. This is going to be an exciting match for both teams as well.

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IPL 2024: KKR vs MI, Match 60: Who said what at the toss?

Hardik Pandya: We are going to bowl. Just want to see how the pitch behaves. It has been under covers for two days. We all are aware of the stats, but you got to turn up and play good cricket on the day. Same team.

Shreyas Iyer: I tried it another time (toss), still it came down as heads (smiles at his record on losing tosses). It’s part and parcel but it such games it’s crucial. Not going to take those excuses though. We want the Q next to our team. Nitish comes in for Angkrish.

Playing XIs:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Subs: Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Angkrish Raghuvanshi

Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan(w), Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs: Rohit Sharma, Shams Mulani, Shivalik Sharma, Mohammad Nabi, Kumar Kartikeya