“At Home, You Should…”: Ajinkya Rahane’s Blunt Reply On Eden Gardens Pitch Amid Row Ahead Of KKR vs SRH

The Eden gardens land was developed at IPL 2025 like no other band. After Kolkata Knight Riders, captain Ajinkya Rahane, said he would like the ground to help his slow breaths, the conservative of Eden Gardens Pitch Sujan Mukherjee very severely said that his duty was to do neutral land. So, it was not surprising that during the draw, the first question that Rahane met concerned the field. “It looks good, I’m really satisfied with the field, we were also first bowling. This will suit our spinners at home, you should get what you want, but we will have to assess the situation quickly with the bat,” said Rahane after Kkr was sent to Bat.

“We sat together (after the last match), discussed how we can improve, but it’s a long tournament and it was a bad day. Moeen Ali arrives at Spencer Johnson. Whatever the plans, we will have to go out and do well in the middle.”

Earlier, the Sunrisers skipper Hyderabad (SRH), Pat Cummins, won the draw and chose to play the first against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) during the 15th meeting of the first Indian League in progress (IPL) 2025 to the emblematic of Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. SRH will seek their revenge against the Knight Riders last year, they could not win any match against KKR, this year, they would like to shoot the tables.

This confrontation is the fourth game of the two games in the 18th edition of the League rich in cash. Currently, KKR is placed at the bottom of the 2025 IPL table with two points while the Sunrisers are in eighth with two points of their three games so far in the current tournament.

The Captain of the SRH, Pat Cummins, said: “We are going to have a bowl. Looks like a good surface, but I am terrible to read it. They surpassed us in the final, but a little change on two sides. We talked about our striker, we were in our best while being aggressive, but we cannot be imprudent.

The Sri-Lankan striker Kamindu Mendis will make his IPL debut.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (playing Xi): Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Heinrich Klaan (W), Kamindu Mendis, Simarjeet Singh, Pat Cummins (C), Harshal Patel, Mouhammed Shami, Zeeshan Ansari,

Kolkata Knight Riders (playing XI): Quinton de Kock (W), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.