Kolkata
Knight
Riders
–
who
are
coming
back
from
a
win
over
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
(RCB)
in
the
Eliminator
two
nights
back
–
are
playing
with
an
unchanged
side
while
Delhi
Capitals
–
who
are
coming
on
the
back
of
a
defeat
against
Chennai
Super
Kings
in
Qualifier
1
–
made
one
change
to
their
playing
eleven.
Delhi
Capitals
rested
England
all-rounder
Tom
Curran
and
included
Australia
batting
all-rounder
Marcus
Stoinis
in
the
side
to
strengthen
their
batting.

After
winning
the
toss,
KKR
skipper
Morgan
said,
“We
are
going
to
bowl
first.
We
have
played
a
few
games
here
at
Sharjah,
so
far
it’s
worked.
There
might
be
a
dew
factor
later
on.
We
have
kept
the
same
side.
We
are
playing
some
good
cricket
at
the
moment,
we
are
confident
as
a
side.
Guys
know
their
roles
inside
out,
so
hoping
to
come
here
today
and
produce
something
close
to
that.
Playing
DC
will
be
a
good
test.
The
mindset
that
we
have
had
throughout
the
second
phase
has
been
spot-on,
guys
have
looked
to
play
aggressive,
smart
cricket,
which
is
great.
We
really
enjoyed
playing
here
and
hopefully,
it
has
put
some
smiles
on
people’s
faces
as
well.”

Delhi
Capitals’ captain
Pant
said
he
would
have
also
liked
to
bowl
first
on
this
surface,
“We
would
have
bowled
first.
It’s
fine,
we
can’t
be
thinking
about
the
toss
too
much,
so
let’s
play
some
good
cricket
today.
There’s
nothing
we
wanted
to
change
from
the
last
game,
just
one
or
two
overs
here
and
there
would
have
done
us
the
job.
We
needed
an
extra
batsman
in
these
kinds
of
tracks,
so
Marcus
Stoinis
comes
in.
Tom
Curran
is
out.
We
are
in
a
great
frame
of
mind,
always
exciting
to
play
together,
always
having
a
lot
of
fun,
looking
to
have
fun
during
the
match
also.”

Playing
XIs:

Delhi
Capitals:
Prithvi
Shaw,
Shikhar
Dhawan,
Shreyas
Iyer,
Rishabh
Pant(w/c),
Marcus
Stoinis,
Shimron
Hetmyer,
Axar
Patel,
Ravichandran
Ashwin,
Kagiso
Rabada,
Avesh
Khan,
Anrich
Nortje.

Kolkata
Knight
Riders:
Shubman
Gill,
Venkatesh
Iyer,
Rahul
Tripathi,
Nitish
Rana,
Eoin
Morgan(c),
Dinesh
Karthik(w),
Sunil
Narine,
Shakib
Al
Hasan,
Lockie
Ferguson,
Shivam
Mavi,
Varun
Chakravarthy.