Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will meet each other on May 20th, at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata in the sixteenth edition of the Indian Premier League
Lucknow Super Giants finished third in their maiden IPL season with nine wins and five losses in 14 games played. They lost against RCB in the eliminator and were knocked out of the race last year. They would look to continue the same momentum this time.
Kolkata Knight Riders are coming off after a bad 2022 season. They would seek improved performance in both departments to bounce back into winning ways in the 2023 season. Kolkata Knight Riders will be missing the services of Shreyas Iyer and Nitish Rana is set to lead KKR in the 2023 edition
Total Matches played | KKR | LSG |
3 | 0 | 3 |
Quinton de Kock leads the batting chart with 218 runs and is followed by Rinku Singh (113) in the second spot and
Lokesh Rahul (68) in the third spot. In the bowling department, Mohsin Khan and Ravi Bishnoi shares the first spot with four wickets each is followed by Marcus Stoinis, Jason Holder, Sunil narine and Avesh Khan in shares the second spot with three wickets each, and Yash Thakur,Vaibhav Arora and Shardul Thakur,in shares the third spot with two wickets each
Both the teams last met on May 20, 2023, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, where Lucknow Super Giants won by 1 runs. Lucknow Super Giants batted first where Nicholas Pooran 58(30) and Quinton de Kock (28) helping them to post 176/8 in 20 overs. In reply, Jason Roy 45(28) and Rinku Singh 67*(33) put up a good fight which was not enough to go over the winning line, as KKR fell short of the target by the barest of margins.
Date | Winner | Margin | Venue |
20-05-2023 | LSG | 1 run | Kolkata |
18-05-2022 | LSG | 2 Runs | Navi Mumbai |
07-05-2022 | LSG | 75 Runs | Mumbai |
*Last Updated on 20th May 2023