IPL 2024, KKR Practice Match: Team Gold have beaten Shreyas Iyer’s Team Purple by 5 runs

KKR Practice Match LIVE: The Kolkata Knight Riders are about to start their IPL 2024 preparations by playing an intra-squad practice match. With Shreyas Iyer joining the likes of Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh and Venkatesh Iyer, their first practice match of the season is bound to be an action-packed one.

KKR Practice Match: Team Purple win by 5 runs

20.56 PM: The first inning comes to an end. Team Gold scores 237/4 in 20 overs; Shreyas Iyer’s Team Purple needs 238 runs to win.

20.36 PM: Andre Russell departs, Rinku Singh returns to have another go. (Team Gold: 188/4 after 17 overs)

20.23 PM: Rinku Singh and Ramandeep Singh have walked in, and Nitish Rana and Phil Salt have retired out. (Team Gold: 161/2 after 14 overs)

20.03 PM: Phil Salt hits an impressive 50. (Team Gold: 115/2 after 11 overs)

19.53 PM: Salt and Nitish continue good form. (Team Gold: 93/2 after 9 overs)

19.43 PM: Salt continues good form. (Team Gold: 63/2 after 7 overs)

19.35 PM: Nitish Rana joins Phil Salt in the middle.

19.34 PM: Varun Chakaravarthy on fire! Manish Pandey departs in the 6th over.

19.32 PM: Manish Pandey walks into the middle.

19.31 PM: After being dropped by the previous ball, Varun Chakaravarthy gets Venkatkesh Iyer trapped in the front.

19.28 PM: Salt takes Chetan Sakariya to the cleaners. (Team Gold: Phil Salt 29; 52/0 after 5 overs)

19.23 PM: Salt continues his assault. (Team Gold: Phil Salt 22, Venkatesh Iyer 11; 36/0 after 4 overs)

19.18 PM: Iyer hits first six of the match. (Team Gold: 21/0 after 3 overs)

19.12 PM: Phil Salt starts assault, Venkatesh Iyer struggling to find his form. (Team Gold: 10/0 after 2 overs)

19.07 PM: Team Gold – 1/0 after 1 over

KKR Practice Match: Playing XIs

Thoughts on the Playing XI for our first practice match #KnightsArmy❓💭 pic.twitter.com/izQe8kg7Po

— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) March 17, 2024

KKR Squad For IPL 2024

Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer (c), Phil Salt, Sunil Narine. Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy. KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh. Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain.