BEN­GALARU, In­dia – West In­di­ans Sunil Nar­ine and An­dre Rus­sell, who play for Kolkata Knight Rid­ers (KKR) are sched­uled to ar­rive in Ben­galaru be­tween Wednes­day and Thurs­day ahead of the restart of the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) on Sat­ur­day.

Nar­ine and Rus­sell, along with Rov­man Pow­ell and KKR team men­tor Dwayne Bra­vo, had been stay­ing in Dubai since leav­ing In­dia fol­low­ing the sus­pen­sion of the IPL on May 9.

They will have lit­tle time to set­tle as the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons KKR face a must-win game against Roy­al Chal­lengers Ben­galu­ru (RCB) at the M Chin­naswamy Sta­di­um.

Af­ter the game against RCB, KKR’s fi­nal league game is against Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad in Del­hi on May 25.

They need to win both fix­tures to get to 15 points to have any chance of qual­i­fy­ing for the play­offs.

KKR’s wick­et­keep­er-bat­ter Rah­man­ul­lah Gur­baz, cur­rent­ly in Kab­ul, will join the West In­di­an con­tin­gent in Dubai and fly to In­dia, while South Africa fast bowler An­rich Nort­je will join the squad in Ben­galu­ru from the Mal­dives.

All-rounder Moeen Ali and fast bowler Spencer John­son are the far­thest for KKR – in UK and Aus­tralia re­spec­tive­ly – and an up­date on their avail­abil­i­ty is await­ed though in­di­ca­tions are they will re­turn.

There has been no con­fir­ma­tion yet on whether Quin­ton de Kock will re­turn.

The IPL was sus­pend­ed for one week fol­low­ing cross-bor­der ten­sions be­tween In­dia and Pak­istan.

CMC