The world is ready to witness yet another big battle of the Indian Premier League. The 8th Match match of Dream11 IPL T20 2020 is scheduled to play between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday, 26th September 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi. We are posting safe, accurate, and secure today match prediction for all matches of IPL T20 free.

Kolkata Knight Riders had a history that they had not lost the opening match of any season of Indian Premier League but they had changed this history and lost the opening encounter of this edition of the Dream11 IPL against Mumbai Indians by a handsome margin of 46 runs. They won the toss and decided to field first. The performance of the bowling unit of Kolkata Knight Riders was not impressive in that match. They leaked a total of 195 runs in their inning of 20 overs. They used six bowlers in that match. Shivam Mavi was the most successful and highest wicket-taker from their side who picked two wickets in his four overs bowled out against 32 runs. Sunil Narine also had a good performance with the ball. He picked one wicket in his four overs bowled out while he was charged for 22 runs. Andre Russell picked one wicket while he bowled out and leaked 17 runs. Sandeep Warrier leaked plenty of runs and failed to pick any wicket. He was charged for 34 runs in his four overs bowled out. Pat Cummins also failed to perform well in the previous match as per expectation. He was charged for 49 runs in his three overs bowled out and remained wicket-less.

Like the bowling, the batting order of Kolkata Knight Riders also failed to give their best performance in the previous match. They could not chase the target of 196 runs and could manage to score 146 runs in their inning of 20 overs. The opening pair of KKR, Shubman Gill, and Sunil Narine failed to give a good start. Both openers went back to the pavilion on a total of just 25 runs. The batting order of this team looks strong at least on papers like Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, and Dinesh Karthik failed to give the performance as we were expecting. Pat Cummins was the highest run-scorer from their side who scored 33 runs on just 12 deliveries and smashed one boundary and four sixes. The skipper, Dinesh Karthik had 30 runs to his name. He faced 23 balls and smashed five boundaries. Nitish Rana smashed the inning of 24 runs on 18 balls with the help of two boundaries and one six. Eoin Morgan had 16 runs to his name.

Sunrisers Hyderabad is a strong team at least on papers the players like David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Mohammad Nabi, K Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Kane Williamson, and Rashid are the part of the squad of this team but they failed to have a kick start to this edition of Indian Premier League. They lost their opening match against Royal Challengers Bangalore by the margin of 10 runs. They won the toss and decided to field first. The performance of their bowling unit was not good in the previous match. They leaked 163 runs in their inning of 20 overs. Seven bowlers from SRH were used in the previous match and no bowler from their side could give outstanding performance. Abhishek Sharma picked one wicket in his two overs bowled out against 16 runs. T Natarajan also picked one wicket in his four overs bowled out against 34 runs. Vijay Shankar picked one wicket in his 1.4 overs bowled out and leaked 14 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sandeep Sharma, Mitchell Marsh, and Rashid Khan were the bowlers from their side who failed to pick any wicket.

The batting order of Sunrisers Hyderabad performed well but failed to chase the target of 164 runs. They could manage to score 153 runs in their inning of 20 overs. Their top-order batting lineup had an outstanding performance and give a good start but their middle-order almost failed to give their best performance. Jonny Bairstow, Manish Pandey, and Priyam Garg performed well with the bat but no other batsmen from their side could even enter into double-figure. Jonny Bairstow was the most successful and highest run-scorer from their side who scored a total of 61 runs while he faced 43 deliveries and smashed six boundaries and two sixes. Manish Pandey had 34 runs to his name while he faced 33 balls and smashed three boundaries and one six. Priyam Garg had 12 runs to his name while Vijay Shankar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Mitchell Marsh got out on a golden duck and failed to open their account on the scoreboard.

Sunrisers Hyderabad is a strong and overall strong team as compared to the Kolkata Knight Riders at least on papers. According to our IPL prediction, Sunrisers Hyderabad is the favorite team that will win this match. There are many factors that make Sunrisers Hyderabad a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• Sunrisers Hyderabad is a well-experienced and strong team
• The batting order of Kolkata Knight Riders is strong as compared to Sunrisers Hyderabad
• Kolkata Knight Riders had a decent record while playing against Sunrisers Hyderabad
• The bowling unit of Kolkata Knight Riders is experienced and strong

Sunrisers Hyderabad is full of experienced and young players in the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitter of t20 format is the part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today match for Sunrisers Hyderabad have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Sunrisers Hyderabad have 54% chances to win this match
Kolkata Knight Riders have 46% chances to win this match

The role of the toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of the Indian Premier League as we had observed in the previous matches. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as there is some rain expected and can make the batting a bit difficult.

The 8th Match match of the Indian Premier League is going to be held at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting. The track is slower than the others we have seen and helps the spinners quite a bit. We are hoping that the surface is bound to get slower and be a bit more difficult for batting in this match. A score of 190 is going to be tough to chase.

The weather forecast for Dubai is good for this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Dream11 fantasy team lineup prediction for Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad 8th Match match IPL 2020. After checking the latest player’s availability, which players will be part of both teams, he possible tactics that the two teams might use as we had leaned from previous seasons of Indian Premier League to make the best possible Dream11 team.

WICKETKEEPER:
J Bairstow
BATSMEN:
S Gill
M Pandey
D Warner (C)
A Sharma
ALL-ROUNDERS:
S Narine
N Rana
A Russell (Vc)
BOWLERS:
S Mavi
S Sharma
K Yadav

Date: Saturday, 26th September 2020
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 06:00 PM LOCAL / 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: Sheikh Zayed Stadium
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Opened: 2004
Capacity: 20,000
Ends: North End, Pavilion End
Time Zone: UTC +04:00
Home to: United Arab Emirates
Floodlights: Yes

Total matches: 44
Matches won batting first: 19
Matches won bowling first: 25
Average 1st Inns scores: 137
Average 2nd Inns scores: 128
Highest total recorded: 225/7 (20 Ov) by IRE vs AFG
Lowest total recorded: 87/10 (18.3 Ov) by HK vs OMAN
Highest score chased: 166/6 (19.4 Ov) by HK vs AFG
Lowest score defended: 129/6 (20 Ov) by ENG vs PAK

Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (c & wk), Nikhil Naik, Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Siddhesh Lad, Chris Green, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Ali Khan, Tom Banton, Varun Chakravarthy, Manimaran Siddharth.