Across the history of the IPL, Gujarat Lions captain Suresh Raina has never been dismissed by Kolkata Knight Riders' offspinner Sunil Narine (2:50)

Match facts

Gujarat Lions v Kolkata Knight Riders

Rajkot, April 7, 2017

Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)

Head to head

Overall: Gujarat Lions have won both matches between the teams so far.

In the news

Neither team will be able to field their best XI. Gujarat Lions allrounder Dwayne Bravo suffered a hamstring injury in January and is recovering from surgery. He is likely to miss the first two games. Kolkata Knight Riders fast bowler Umesh Yadav has hip and lower-back issues and will be fit to play in two weeks.

Knight Riders will also have to make do without allrounder Andre Russell, who is serving a one-year ban for a doping code-violation. His replacement though - Colin de Grandhomme - has a T20 strike-rate of 171 after 91 innings. Shakib Al Hasan will join the team after Bangladesh's tour of Sri Lanka.

Lions have lost a similarly key player. Their local boy Ravindra Jadeja is suffering from "issues" to his spinning finger after starring in a 13-Test long home season. Lions do have a surplus of left-arm spinners - Shadab Jakati and Shivil Kaushik - and are expecting Jadeja back in two weeks.

The likely XIs

Gujarat Lions: 1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Dwayne Smith, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Aaron Finch, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 James Faulkner, 7 Ishan Kishan, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Shadab Jakati, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Shivil Kaushik

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Gautam Gambhir (capt), 2 Robin Uthappa (wk), 3 Manish Pandey, 4 Chris Lynn/Colin de Grandhomme, 5 Chris Woakes, 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Suryakumar Yadav, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Sunil Narine, 10 Ankit Rajpoot, 11 Trent Boult

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