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Thursday, April 5, 2012

IPL Preview: Kolkata vs Delhi at Eden Gardens

Live Match: Kolkata vs Delhi at Eden Gardens

Kolkata: Underachievers in the last four seasons, both Kolkata KnightRiders & Delhi Daredevils would look to reverse their fortunes when they kickstart their Indian Premier League V campaign against each other at the Eden Gardens here tomorrow.

Both the teams have the right ingredients, which are needed for a perfect Twenty20 recipe, but the biggest challenge before them would be to make winning a habit this season & pose serious threats to the likes of Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians & Royals Challengers Bangalore.

For Kolkata skipper Gautam Gambhir, who has been stripped of Indian vice-captaincy, the tournament would mean a lot personally as he would be eager to let his leadership skill do the talking, besides contributing at the top of the order.

Delhi would love to start on a winning note. 

The KnightRiders look a far more settled side this time around after roping in former player & New Zeal&’s explosive opener Brendon McCullum, & their USD 700,000 catch in West Indian offspinner Sunil Narine, who promises to be the one to look out for.

For Trinidad & Tobago in last season’s Champions League Twenty20, Narine was at his best scalping 10 wickets & gave away a miserly 4.37 runs per over.

Most top batsmen found it difficult to read the off-spinner & in the Indian conditions Narine is expected to revel alongside Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, one of the finest all-rounders in the world at the moment.

To add to it, the return of McCullum, who smashed a 73-ball 158 for the KnightRiders in the very first Indian Premier League match of season one four years back, is certain to bring smiles back on the faces of the fans of the Kolkata outfit.

McCullum is expected to partner Jacques Kallis at the top with Gambhir dropping to the No 3 position. The middle-order will have an in-form Manoj Tiwary, who would be desperate to be prove a point to the Indian team management after having denied a single opportunity during the entire tri-series in Australia & the subsequent Asia Cup in Bangladesh.

In Yusuf Pathan, the KnightRiders have one of the most feared hitters & the team would be hoping for his bat to do all the talking this time around after a fairly quiet outing last year.

Apart from Pathan, the KnightRiders also have a host of exciting all-rounders in Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Dutchman Ryan ten Doeschate & Shakib.

The KnightRiders also have balanced bowling attack, which will be led by Australian speedster Brett Lee.

Under Gambhir & former coach Dav Whatmore, the KnightRiders looked a far more settled side last season what if they failed to qualify for the final yet again.

& Whatmore’s successor Trevor Bayliss, who coached Sri Lanka to the World Cup final last year, is regarded as a Twenty 20 specialist & he would also look to infuse the winning mantra into the KnightRiders’ camp.

“Trevor Bayliss has immense knowledge of the game (Twenty 20). The side is looking balanced under him. The biggest secret of this side is every member is enjoying each other’s company,” KnightRiders’ bowling consultant Wasim Akram said.

The Daredevils, meanwhile, would be desperate for a turnaround after finishing last in 2011 with just four wins to their credit.

The Daredevils, however, will be without the services of big names like Mahela Jayawardene, Kevin Pietersen & David

Warner in tomorrow’s match as they are busy playing for their respective countries. Besides Kiwi Ross Taylor is also unavailable after he broke his h& during the third Test against South Africa recently.

With key players missing for the first half of the event, skipper Virender Sehwag will have to take the extra load in along with Naman Ojha & Venugopal Rao.

A lot of hopes will be pinned on their new signing, West Indies’ &re Russell who would like to make an impact with the bat at the big stage.

Delhi’s pace battery looks dangerous with Morkel spearheading the attack consisting of comeback man Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav & Varun Aaron.

The spin line-up, however, looks a bit raw with left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem leading the attack & which will also have Roelf van der Merwe.

Live Match: Kolkata vs Delhi at Eden Gardens

Teams

Kolkata KnightRiders (from): Gautam Gambhir (c), Manoj Tiwary, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Yusuf Pathan, Rajat Bhatia, Chirag Jani, Debabrata Das, Iqbal Abdulla, Iresh Saxena, Jaidev Unadkat, Laxmipathy Balaji, Manvinder Bisla, Pradeep Sangwan, Sanju Samson, Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Mohd Shami Ahmed, Brad Haddin (wk), Jacques Kallis, Brendon McCullum, Eoin Morgan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Marchant de Lange.

Delhi Daredevils (from): Virender Sehwag (c), Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav, Puneet Bisht, Robin Bist, Naman Ojha (wk), Shahbaz Nadeem, Venugopal Rao, Vikas Mishra, Yogesh Nagar, Zafir Patel, Sunny Gupta, Tejashwi Yadav, Aavishkar Salvi, Kuldeep Raval, Manpreet Juneja, Pawan Negi, Prashant Naik, Aaron Finch, &re Russell, Doug Bracewell, Glenn Maxwell, Gulam Bodi, Morne Morkel, Roelf van der Merwe.

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