On 4th May 2016 the grand match of IPL 2016 KKR vs KXIP will be played at the home ground of Kolkata team Eden gardens. This upcoming match will be very important for Kings XI Punjab as they have lost 5 matches so far in the tournament out of 7 they have played. But their recent win against one of the strongest team Gujarat Lions shocked every body and ignite the fighting spirit in the team. Kolkata Knight Riders have won 5 matches out of 8 and they are on the third spot in the points table. They will look to capture the first position in the table by defeating Punjab in this match.
In India, cricket is a religion and IPL T20 tournament is the cricket festival which held every year. IPL 2016 has been kick started from 9th April and going smoothly so far. There will be 56 matches to be played to decide the four teams which will play the next round Play-offs. In India all cricket fans use to predict the match result and today also there are many viewers who are talking and predicting about Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab match of IPL 9. So we have decided to take views of user viewers and ask them to predict the winner of KKR vs KXIP match.
Performance of Both the team in IPL 2016 :-
If we look at the KXIP team first, from the starting match they are not quite comfortable with their batting. Opening pair Murli Vijay and Manan Vohra gave some good start to the team but no one of them took their small innings to the big one. The middle order in not scoring runs. They have big names in their batting order like Glenn Maxwell, David Miller who are fully capable of destroying bowling spells of opponent bowlers but again no one is sticking on the crease for some time. They looks like just throwing their wicket while trying in hitting big shots. David Miller was the captain of the team earlier but before the last match the team Management of Kings XI Punjab and the coaching staff gave the responsibility of captaincy to the Murli Vijay and under his captaincy team won their second match of the league against Gujarat Lions. In this match KXIP shown their bowling strength and Axar Patel becomes the first bowler of IPL 2016 who took first Hat-trick of the season. After winning last match the confidence of the players should have built up and the team will ready to tackle KKR in the upcoming match.
Kolkata Knight Riders is one of the strongest team of IPL 2016. They have won the title 2 times in the history and in this season they are playing very good cricket. They don’t have too many big names in their squad but going good in the tournament. They have played 8 matches in the league and registered 5 wins. The secret behind the success of the team is that every player of team know their role and when they came onto the ground they are executing the instructions. Every player is contributing which enhancing the performance of the team. One of the strong thing in the KKR is the opening pair, Captain Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa are scoring runs and in the middle order Manish Pandey, Surya Kumar Yadav are there for the team. Yusuf Pathan and Andre Russell have the ability to add quick runs to the scoreboard. In Bowling department, one of the finest spinner of cricket world Sunil Narine is holding hands with Piyush Chawla. So the team looks so balance with the batting as well as bowling.
Which team Will the Match :-
This is one of the beam question for the fans of both the teams and but if we looks onto the previous performances KKR is ahead of KXIP and winning chances of them is higher in the match. But as we all know nothing can be predicted into the cricket and this is T20 cricket in which 1 over can change the game. So lets see who will win in the KKR vs KXIP match of IPL 2016. What you think who will win Kings XI Punjab or Kolkata Knight Riders ? Predict the result in the comments . The match will start at 8:00 pm.
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