Get Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Indian Premier League 2025 Head-to-Head, Key Stats, and Predicted XIs for Match 15 right here
The Indian Premier League 2024 finalists, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), will face off for the first time in IPL 2025 on Thursday, April 3, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Live Streaming | Full Coverage | More Cricket News)
Both teams are struggling, with just one win from their first three games. Sitting in the bottom three, defending champions KKR are currently last on the points table. To make matters worse, both sides head into this clash on the back of defeats.
KKR got off to a horror start in their last game against MI as Trent Boult and Deepak Chahar did much of the damage in the powerplay. The day though, belonged to debutant Ashwani Kumar.
Ashwani took the best bowling figures by an Indian player on IPL debut to pummel KKR into the ground. Ryan Rickelton made a fifty in the chase and Suryakumar Yadav applied the finishing touches on a paltry chase of 117.
SRH suffered a top-order collapse against DC, with Mitchell Starc tearing through their batting in the powerplay. It was uncapped Aniket Verma who stepped up, counterattacking brilliantly to steady the innings amid the early wreckage.
SRH and KKR have clashed 28 times in the IPL, with KKR dominating the rivalry with 19 wins, while SRH have managed just 9 victories.
Total Matches Played: 28
SRH Won: 9
KKR Won: 19
Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Impact Player: Vaibhav Arora
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami.
Impact Player: Adam Zampa
Most Runs (2025) - Quinton de Kock (102)
Most Wickets (2025) - Varun Chakravarthy (3)
Most Runs (2025) - Travis Head (136)
Most Wickets (2025) - Zeeshan Ansari (3)
According to Google's prediction, Sunrisers Hyderabad have a higher chance of winning with a 56% probability, while Kolkata Knight Riders stand at 44%.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Rinku Singh, Quinton de Kock (wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Luvnith Sisodia, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Anrich Nortje, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy and Chetan Sakariya.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Aniket Verma, Sachin Baby, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Kamindu Mendis, Wiaan Mulder, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Shami, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat and Eshan Malinga.