KKR showed good results at the start of the 2021 season. First player Nitish Rana won the title of best player in the previous match, having chalked up 80 goals off 56 with 9 fours and 4 sixes. In addition, Rahul Tripathi played 53 runs with 29 goals and had 93 runs with Nitish Rana for the second wicket, which gave them a good result. Later, Andre Russell and captain Eoin Morgan questioned the success of the team with their play, but ex-KKR captain Dinesh Karthik was able to turn the tide of the game, knock of 22 not out off 9 balls. Sunil Narine did not join KKR for the first game, butVarun Chakravarty, Harbhajan Singh and Shakib Al Hasan were in the game. After a long break (from the final of the IPL 2019), Harbhajan returned to the game, who, however, did not particularly delight the KKR fans by making only one over, in which conceded eight runs, including a sixer. Full Squad: Eoin Morgan (C), Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Gurkeerat Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Tim Seifert, Sunil Narine, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Harbhajan Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi
The 30-time champion and 20-time German Cup winner won the Champions League for the sixth time last season. The start of the new season did not bring any surprises and Munich easily passed the group stage, after which they beat Lazio twice in a row (4:1 and 2:1). This season, the red failed to repeat the record of the last Champions League tournament, when the German squad won all the matches in a single season. In 2021 Star of the South had already won the trophy when they won the FIFA Club World Cup, after beating Tigres in the final (1:0). It should be noted the fantastic performance of the team in the attacking line, which hit the gates of opponents 80 times. The best sniper is Lewandowski, who has 35 goals. After defeating Stuttgart (4:0) and RB Leipzig (1:0), Bayern unexpectedly lost points with Union Berlin (1:1) at home, for which few could have predicted. Today Hernandez, Tolisso, Tillman, Hofmann, Roca, Lewandowski, Costa, Coman, Zule, Gortetska and Boateng will not be able to enter the pitch. Gnarby is isolated with COVID-19.