Pandya takes Mumbai to 171

Kolkata Knight Riders chose Gautam Gambhir commander to bowl against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium. The decision was based on the state of the pitch, with a tinge of green, and will look to shut down the host team for a total of reasonable.

However, the commander of the Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma said that it had struck first.

Knight Riders made two changes. And it dropped Brad Hogg and Johan Botha, Morne Morkel and replace Chakib al-Hassan, who recently joined them after playing in Bangladesh against Pakistan. Mumbai brought in Vinay Kumar in place Jasprit Bumrah.

Host will look forward to returning to winning ways after their cut in five consecutive games by AB de Villiers in Mumbai on Sunday.

Knight Riders, which was five days ago when they beat the Kings atheist ten Punjab by a small gate for one last game, have a simpler task than the existence of the playoffs spot confirmed with victory in this game.

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Robin Uthappa (wk) 0.2 Gautam Gambhir (captain) 0.3 Manish Pandey, 4 Suryakumar Yadav 0.5 Yusuf Pathan 0.6 Andre Russell 0.7 Chakib Hassan 0.8 Piyush Chawla 0.9 Morne Morkel, 10 Umesh Yadav 11 Sunil Narine.

Mumbai Indians: 1 Parthiv Patel (wk) 0.2 Lendl Simmons 0.3 Rohit Sharma (captain) 0.4 Kieron Pollard, 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Ambati Rayudu, 7 Harbhajan Singh, 8 J Suchith, 9 Mitchell McClenaghan, 10 Lasith Malinga 0.11 Vinay Kumar.