IPL 2017, KKR vs DD: 5 winning factors

With the ball

Coulter-Nile has picked up eight wickets in just three games

With the newly relaid track at the Eden Gardens offering more assistance to fast bowlers, both sides will depend on their quick men to deliver crucial blows. The Daredevils may retain their combination of five fast bowlers from their game against Mumbai Indians.

With 12 wickets from 6 games, Chris Morris is joint-second in the list of wicket-takers in this season and leads a strong pace attack which includes Pat Cummins, Kagiso Rabada, Zaheer Khan and the left arm pace of Corey Anderson.

Knight Riders’ overseas trio of Nathan Coulter-Nile, Chris Woakes and Colin de Grandhomme picked up three wickets each as they shot down the Royal Challengers Bangalore to a record-low 49 here at the Eden Gardens last Sunday. Coulter-Nile was rested for the next game but is expected to come back and share the new ball with Umesh Yadav.