{"id":613121,"date":"2026-04-17T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613121\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:00:07","slug":"kkr-bat-with-seifert-in-for-allen-against-unchanged-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613121\/","title":{"rendered":"KKR bat with Seifert in for Allen against unchanged GT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toss Kolkata Knight Riders chose to bat vs Gujarat Titans<\/p>\n

The winless Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)<\/a> made a big change to their top order in their bid to change their fortunes in IPL 2026<\/a>. They left out Finn Allen, possibly their highest-ceiling top-order option, and brought in his New Zealand compatriot Tim Seifert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

KKR won the toss and chose to bat against Gujarat Titans (GT)<\/a> in Ahmedabad, with their captain Ajinkya Rahane reckoning it would help his beleaguered batting line-up to play with freedom, without the pressure of a target in front of them.<\/p>\n

Shubman Gill, the GT captain, said he would have bowled anyway. While he didn’t think dew had played a major role in Ahmedabad so far this season, he felt it could become a factor in this game and going forward, given the rising daytime temperatures.<\/p>\n

Seifert is likely to take the keeping gloves from Angkrish Raghuvanshi. Varun Chakravarthy is the likeliest player to come off the Impact Player bench when KKR bowl.<\/p>\n

GT were unchanged from their win over Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), with M Shahrukh Khan likely to come off the Impact bench for their chase.<\/p>\n

Gujarat Titans: 1 Shubman Gill (capt), 2 B Sai Sudharsan, 3 Jos Buttler (wk), 4 Washington Sundar, 5 Glenn Phillips, 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Kagiso Rabada, 9 Ashok Sharma, 10 Prasidh Krishna, 11 Mohammed Siraj.
Impact Player options: Jason Holder, M Shahrukh Khan, Manav Suthar, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anuj Rawat.<\/p>\n

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Tim Seifert (wk), 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 4 Angkrish Raghuvanshi, 5 Cameron Green, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Ramandeep Singh, 8 Rovman Powell, 9 Anukul Roy, 10 Vaibhav Arora, 11 Kartik Tyagi.
Impact Player options: Varun Chakravarthy, Manish Pandey, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Kolkata Knight Riders chose to bat vs Gujarat Titans The winless Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) made a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-613121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}