Kolkata Knight Riders have dropped Blessing Muzarabani from their clash against Lucknow Super Giants at the Eden Gardens. The Zimbabwe international clinched a four-wicket haul in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad and was expected to get a longer rope in the playing XI. However, he was dropped from the match against Lucknow, with veteran all-rounder Sunil Narine replacing him.
Blessingโs absence also confirms that Cameron Green is set to bowl. Cricket Australia had earlier restricted the all-rounder to bowl in the IPL for the first three games. That deadline has now passed and with that, Green could very well bowl in the middle overs. With Varun Chakaravarthy missing, he could be Ajinkya Rahaneโs go-to option alongside Narine.
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane (c), Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Navdeep Saini, Kartik Tyagi
Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (wk/c), Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav