Kolkata Knight Riders will have little motivation left when they take on another ousted outfit Sunrisers Hyderabad in an inconsequential IPL game here on Sunday. 

Call it irony, when KKR and SRH played their last match of the 2024 IPL, it was the grand finale where Shreyas Iyer’s team had trumped Pat Cummins’s men in a one-sided match. On Sunday, however, both sides will only have bragging rights there for the taking with at best a sixth place finish in the offing. SRH will start as favourites, having thrashed a fancied RCB by 42 runs on Friday night and will be more than game-ready, unlike KKR, which last took the field against CSK on May 7 at the Eden Gardens.