KKR have won the toss and chosen to bowl first in their first encounter versus the Bhuvaneshwar Kumar led Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday.
Karthik led KKR is playing almost the same team as the last season and so are Sunrisers Hyderabad with star batsman David Warner making his comeback after the sand paper saga.
SRH have a strong batting line-up and will look to dominate by putting runs on the board but the bowling line-up of KKR upfront, it will be a challenging test for SRH.
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): David Warner, Jonny Bairstow(w), Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Shakib Al Hasan, Vijay Shankar, Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar(c), Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul