Indian Premier League 2023: The 13th league match of the 16th season of IPL is being played between the defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In this match, the Gujarat team decided to bat first after winning the toss. The Gujarat team has won both the matches played so far, while the Kolkata team has lost 1 and won 1. Rashid Khan has taken over the captaincy in place of Hardik Pandya in this match from the Gujarat Titans team.
See here the playing 11 of both the teams
Gujarat Titans - Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Abhinav Manohar, Yash Dayal, Rashid Khan (c), Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph.
Kolkata Knight Riders - N Jagadishan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Nitish Rana (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.
Till now both the teams have met only once.
Gujarat Titans and Kolkata Knight Riders have so far played only 1 match against each other in the history of IPL, in which last season Gujarat team won by 8 runs in the match played at Navi Mumbai ground. If we talk about the performance of both the teams so far this season, Gujarat has shown a very good game in 2 matches, in which the team chased down the target very beautifully against Chennai and Delhi.
The season did not start well for Kolkata Knight Riders when they lost the match against Punjab Kings by 7 runs according to the Duckworth-Lewis method, but in their second match, KKR's team made a spectacular comeback at home. Had registered a big win of 81 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore on the ground. At present, the Gujarat team is third with 4 points while the Kolkata team is in 6th position with 2 points.
