The Kolkata Knight Riders are looking to get back to the top of the table while RSP wants to cement their top-four finish when these two side lock horns in one of the most famous cricketing venue Eden Gardens.

Captain #Smithy wins the toss & elects to bowl again. Good toss to win #Supergiants! #RangWahiJungNayi #KKRvRPS pic.twitter.com/KNiLo3hBvl

— RisingPuneSupergiant (@RPSupergiants) May 3, 2017

Rising Pune Supergiant following the growing trend in this year’s Indian Premier League chose to bowl first after winning the toss. The captain of RPS Steve Smith stated that the ground is great for chasing after winning the toss, even opposition captain seems to agree with the options as Gambhir also pointed out that had he won the would have opted bowl as well.

WICKET! Narine departs without scoring.
Wicket maiden to start with from Jaydev Unadkat! DusKiDahaad #AmiKKR #KKRvRPS

— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) May 3, 2017

As far as teams are concerned Rising Pune Supergiant preferred to go with the same that got them the massive win against the Gujarat Lions, while KKR will be without their star performer Robin Uthappa who is out due a minor injury and KKR are not taking any change, Suryakumar Yadav comes in place of Robin.

Team:

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Sunil Narine, Gautam Gambhir(c), Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Sheldon Jackson(w), Colin de Grandhomme, Chris Woakes, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Kuldeep Yadav, Umesh Yadav

Rising Pune Supergiant (Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Tripathi, Steven Smith(c), Manoj Tiwary, Ben Stokes, MS Dhoni(w), Daniel Christian, Washington Sundar, Jaydev Unadkat, Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir

Source: NYOOOZ DESK - IPL