Fantasy: Keep Russell, Pooran out at your own peril

Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Average first innings score in last three years:187

59% of the games have been won by team batting first

Pacers have picked 63.32% of the wickets to fall here. Spinners have picked 36.68% of the wickets.

*all data from last 3 years

Suggested teams

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Horses for courses

Top Run scorers at this venue

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Top wicket takers at this venue

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Probable XIs

Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh , Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy

Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (c & wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Yash Thakur, Arshad Khan