KKR elect to bat against Delhi Daredevils

RAIPUR: Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to bat against Delhi Daredevils at the newly- built Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium in Raipur on Wednesday.

Watch IPL Videos

While Delhi made no changes to their line-up, Kolkata made two major changes. Brett Lee comes in for New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum and Shami Ahmed gives his place to Sumit Narwal.

After notching up a morale-boosting victory against the Pune Warriors, Delhi Daredevils will aim to improve their current position.

Just like the previous match between the Daredevils and the Warriors, this encounter will also be a battle of survival for both the teams -- especially KKR, whose slide during this edition has been pretty sharp.

While Daredevils have lost seven out of their nine games, KKR are not too far behind having lost six games out of nine.

The Daredevils have failed to finish off some close matches this season and their effort against the Warriors was certainly laudable considering the situation they are in at the moment.

The one thing that has been ailing both the teams is the performance of their Indian players which has definitely played a big role in their poor show in the million dollar league so far.

The pressure has been immense on skipper Gautam Gambhir, and Eoin Morgan, who have easily been the two best players in their side with scores of 308 and 268 runs respectively.

Gambhir, however, has failed in the last two games and would like to make amends during Wednesday's encounter.

In all, an exciting match is on the cards as it is redemption time for KKR. Daredevils, on the other hand, would look to exact a sweet revenge for their first leg loss against the same opponents.

Teams (from):

Delhi Daredevils: Mahela Jayawardene (captain.), Virender Sehwag, David Warner, Umesh Yadav, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan, Kedar Jadhav, Unmukt Chand, Morne Morkel, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ben Rohrer.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Brett Lee, Debabrata Das, Eoin Morgan, Jacques Kallis, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Manvinder Bisla, Rajat Bhatia, Sunil Narine, Yusuf Pathan, Sumit Narwal.

Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang

KKR elect to bat against Delhi Daredevils

Dengan url

http://bijikacang.blogspot.com/2013/05/kkr-elect-to-bat-against-delhi.html

Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya

KKR elect to bat against Delhi Daredevils

namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link

KKR elect to bat against Delhi Daredevils

sebagai sumbernya