Sunrisers Hyderabad Captain Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bat first against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 49th match of the IPL 2021. The match is being played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.

Head 2 head count between KKR& SRH stands at 13-7, with Kolkata dominating Hyderabad. KKR has won the last 3 times these two teams met in IPL. Playing XI of both teams are:

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Tim Seifert/Shakib al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi, Tim Southee, Varun Chakravarthy

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) - Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Kane Williamson (c), Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma