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Hosts KKR look to revive campaign against Sunrisers
Kolkata: After a heart-breaking defeat at the hands of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will look to bounce back strongly against Sunrisers Hyderabad at their home ground – the Eden Gardens here on Monday.
Both sides are aware that another slip-up will jeopardise their chances of making it till the play-offs. While KKR are fourth on the league table with nine points from nine matches, Sunrisers are a rung below at fifth with 8 points from as many encounters.
But the visitors will still be oozing with confidence as they come into the match on the back of a morale-boosting win against Chennai Super Kings. Skipper David Warner led his side’s charge as they posted a mammoth 192/7 and restricted the Super Kings to 170 for six in Hyderabad on Saturday.
The Knights on the other hand suffered a reverse result at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday as they lost a close contest against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a rain-curtailed match of 10 overs. The Royal Challengers got over the line with just two balls to spare.
The odds favour Kolkata as they have clinched three of five games played. But in the first leg it was the Sunrisers who had the last laugh in Visakhapatnam, winning the game by 16 runs via the Duck-Worth Lewis method.
KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir will plot the downfall of Sunrisers’ formidable batting top order led by Warner. It will be interesting to see if he gets back South African Morne Morkel in place of Pat Cummins, who has not excelled so far. Veteran Australian spinner, Brad Hogg, 44, needs to be at his best as the entire bowling outfit of his team revolves around his performance.
The match will provide another fascinating contest when the KKR batsmen tackle the Hyderabad death bowlers boosted by New Zealander Trent Boult and Bhuvneshwar Kumar who have a considerable reportoire of different deliveries to outfox the batsmen.
Both sides will go into the match knowing there are only a handful games left to make the cut into the last four.
The squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa (wicketkeeper), Piyush Chawla, Yusuf Pathan, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav Veer, Pratap Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Sumit Narwal, Sheldon Jackson, Aditya Garhwal, KC Cariappa, Vaibhav Rawal, Manish Pandey ,Shakib Al Hasan, Morne Morkel, Pat Cummins, Ryan ten Doeschate, Andre Russell, Brad Hogg, Azhar Mahmood, Johan Botha.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Dale Steyn, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Moises Henriques, Lokesh Rahul, Parvez Rasool, Naman Ojha, Ashish Reddy, Ricky Bhui, Chama Milind, Karn Sharma, Kane Williamson, Eoin Morgan, Ravi Bopara, Bipul Sharma, Trent Boult, Praveen Kumar, Hanuma Vihari, Prasanth Padmanabhan, Siddarth Kaul.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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