Starc to Abhishek Sharma, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Starc to Abhishek Sharma, 2 runs, square of the wicket

Starc to Abhishek Sharma, no run

Starc to Abhishek Sharma, no run, a nervy poke, short of a good length and slanting across the left-hander - Abhishek plays away from his body, hangs his bat out to dry and is beaten on the outside edge

Starc to Abhishek Sharma, no run

Abhishek Sharma and Head are at the crease. Abhishek Sharma is on strike. Starc will open the attack

Head isn't taking strike, it'll be Abishek Sharma, one slip in place

Pat Cummins won the toss in QF1, batted first and was left to regret that call. He has opted to bat first once again and he'll hope that the dew doesn't come. Always good to bat first in a big final, the onus is on SRH to put up a total on the board. 

Travis Head: It's another final. It's nice to be here, it's been a very enjoyable couple of months, so hopefully we can top it off tonight and please a lot of fans. (On losing 4 & 3 wickets in the powerplay in the last two matches) We'd obviously like to lose a little bit less. We got to 170 both times without hitting the marks that we wanted to hit. That's exciting as a group and we spoke about that - we want to go out and continue to play aggressive, play positively and do what we've done the whole time. The positive is that we've been able to get to totals that's given us half a chance with a powerplay like that. So hopefully tonight we can get off to a really good start and get to a really big score. (Any advantage having played Qualifier 2 at this venue?) We'll say yes and they'll say no. We have to come prepared and we are ready to go. We had a look at it the other day, it'll be completely different. It's about making sure that we sum those conditions up as quickly as we can and communicate that well. If it's with the bat, get off to the best start we can with me and Abhi (Abhishek Sharma). If it's the ball, then Bhuvi will kickstart that for us. (Battle against Starc) We have had our battles over the years and he's won a fair few of them, hopefully knock the shine off him tonight and then we get off to a good start.

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Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:

Shreyas Iyer - We would have bowled, we'll get a fair idea about how the pitch will play. It's a red soil and we played our last game on a similar surface. We need to stay with the present, stick to the basics and execute all our plans. Every individual is taking responsibility, this is a big game, we've plenty of people who're playing in a final for the first time, nervous, but this is also a good chance. We're going with the same team

Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Markande, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar

Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Subs: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, KS Bharat, Sherfaine Rutherford

Teams:

Pat Cummins - We will bat first. Looks like a good wicket, played on a different wicket the other night. There was no dew on the other night's game, but when it does, it's very damaging. We've had now dew the other night, I don't feel there'll be any today, I want to crack with the bat first. We have a style that doesn't work always, but when it does work, it's very damagiing. We have done well defending scores. Pretty much the same, Shahbaz comes in for Samad. 

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan

Shreyas Iyer - We would have bowled, we'll get a fair idea about how the pitch will play. It;s a red soil and we played our last game on a similar surface. We need to stay with the present, stick to the basics and execute all our plans. Every individual is taking responsibility, this is a big game, we've plenty of people who're playing in a final for the first time, nervous, but this is also a good chance. We're going with the same team

Pat Cummins - We will bat first. Looks like a good wicket, played on a different wicket the other night. There was no dew on the other night's game, but when it does, it's verydamaging. We've had now dew the other night, I don't feel there'll be any today, I want to crack withthe batfirst. We have a style that doesn't work always, but when it does work, it's very damagiing. We have done well defending scores. Pretty much the same, Shahbaz comes in for Samad.