Aarya Desai joins Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL 2023

Kolkata, April 14: Kolkata Knight Riders have acquired the services of Aarya Desai and he has joined their roster for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 on Friday.

A media advisory released by IPL stated that Desai will represent Gujarat in domestic cricket and has played 3 first-class matches, with 151 runs to his name. He has been signed by Kolkata Knight Riders for a fee of Rs 20 lakh.

On the same day, Kolkata Knight Riders took on Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Eden Gardens in their IPL 2023 match. KKR skipper Nitish Rana won the toss and chose to field first. He said, "We'll bowl first. We've been practising here and there has been dew. Keeping in mind, we want to chase. Same XI for today."

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Kolkata Knight Riders' playing XI was Rahmanullah Gurbaz (w), N Jagadeesan, Nitish Rana (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Suyash Sharma, Lockie Ferguson and Varun Chakaravarthy.

Sunrisers Hyderabad's playing XI was Harry Brook, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen (w), Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik and T Natarajan.