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The 15th match of IPL 2025 will be played between defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders and runner-up Sunrisers Hyderabad. The match will be played at Kolkata’s Homeground Eden Gardens Stadium from 7:30 pm.
Both teams played 3-3 matches this season. Both won 1–1 and lost in 2–2. The last year’s final was played between these two teams. Where Kolkata defeated Hyderabad by 8 wickets and won the IPL for the third time.
Match details, 15th match KKR vs SRH date: 3 April Stadium: Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata Toss: 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
Kolkata ahead in head to head
Kolkata Head to Head is heavy on Hyderabad. 28 IPL matches were played between the two. KKR in 19 and SRH in 9 won. Both teams won 10 times at the Eden Gardens, 7 times KKR and SRH won only 3 times.
Travis Head Hyderabad’s top scorer
Travis Head is the top scorer of SRH. He has scored 136 runs in 3 matches this season. He was followed by Aniket Verma in second place and Ishaan Kishan on the third. Aniket has scored 117 runs in 3 matches at a strike rate of 205.26. He scored a half -century of 74 runs in 41 balls against Delhi Capitals in his last match. Ishaan has scored 108 runs in three matches. He played a century of 106 runs in 47 balls against Rajasthan Royals in his first match. In bowling, Harshal Patel is at the top with 3 wickets.
D Cock scored the most runs for Kolkata
Quinton de Kock is the top scorer of KKR. He has scored 102 runs in 3 matches. He scored an unbeaten 97 -run half -century in 61 balls against Rajasthan Royals in the second match. After him, team captain Ajinkya Rahane has scored 85 runs. He scored a half -century of 56 runs in 31 balls against RCB in his first match. In bowling, Varun Chakravati has taken 3 wickets in 3 matches. He is KKR’s top wicket.
Pitch report The pitch of Eden Gardens Stadium is batting friendly. So far 94 IPL matches have been played in this stadium. Here the teams who batting first have won 38 matches and the chase teams have won 56 matches. Given the records, the team winning the toss can decide to bowl first. The highest team score of this stadium is 262/2, which was made by Punjab Kings against Kolkata last year.
Weather condition The weather of Kolkata will be very hot on 3 April. There will be strong sunlight throughout the day. There is only 3% apprehension of rain. The temperature here is expected to be between 25 and 36 degrees on this day.
Possible Playing-12 Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (Captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishaan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klason (wicketkeeper), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Adam Jampa.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Sunil Naren, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, Angkrish Raghuvanshi.