Apr 15: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 25th match, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Safe XI: Nicholas Pooran, Kane Williamson (capt), Shreyas Iyer (vice-capt), Rahul Tripathi, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Abhishek Sharma, T Natarajan, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
After a slow start to the season, the Sunrisers captain has found form in recent times, scoring 57 and 32 in his last two outings. A key reason why Williamson could be a good captaincy choice for your fantasy team is his record against Knight Riders. Williamson has scored 20 or more runs in six of his last eight innings against them. He has been in decent form coming into the IPL too. Williamson was New Zealand’s leading run-scorer in the recently concluded T20 World Cup, with 216 runs in seven innings, including a top score of 85 in the final.
The new Knight Riders captain has been a prolific run-scorer in T20s this year with 352 runs in nine games, at an average of 70.40, and a strike rate of 162.96. He also loves batting against Sunrisers as his record of 286 runs in nine outings in India, at an average of 35.75, suggests.
High Risk XI: Nicholas Pooran, Sam Billings, Ajinkya Rahane, Kane Williamson, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi (capt), Andre Russell, Romario Shepherd, Umesh Yadav, Sunil Narine, T Natarajan (vice-capt)