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Dubai: Kolkata Knight Riders started their 2014 Pepsi IPL campaign in style by defeating the defending champions Mumbai Indians by a comfortable margin. Delhi Daredevils, on the other hand, are low on confidence after been thrashed by Royal Challengers Bangalore. KKR have momentum on their hands while DD will have to play out of their skins if they have to recover from their first match loss.
KKR performed like a unit in the match against Mumbai Indians, with Manish Pandey and Jacques Kallis bailing the team out of early trouble.
The bowling looks in great shape with Sunil Narine and Morne Morkel bowling admirably, but the concern for KKR will be the poor form of skipper Gautam Gambhir. The lower middle order also failed to finish the innings positively and they will be keen to work on these areas as the tournament goes on.
With Kolkata in trouble against Mumbai Indians, Kallis stood up and played a wonderful knock. He hung in when conditions were tough and opened up in style once he had gotten his eye in. Shami has struck early at regular intervals and he will be DD's key bowler if they have to make inroads in the KKR line-up.
The lack of big scores in the Daredevils top order proved to be their undoing in the first match against RCB. Kevin Pietersen's absence at the top proved to be a huge factor and JP Duminy and Ross Taylor were the only batsmen to make a significant contribution.
The bowling lack penetration and they were not helped by some dropped catches in the outfield. Daredevils will have to put in a better show with both bat and ball if they have to make good progress in this tournament.
Delhi got to a decent score after a poor start thanks to Duminy. However, he will have to take a more thoughtful approach against the guile of Narine. Having picked up four wickets in the opening match, Narine will once again be the trump for KKR.
Teams from
Kolkata : Gautam Gambhir (Capt.), Manish Pandey, Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Piyush Chawla, Sunil Narine, Vinay Kumar, Morne Morkel, Kuldeep Yadav, Veer Pratap Singh, Ryan ten Doeschate, Manvinder Bisla, Umesh Yadav, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Sayan Mondal, Pat Cummins, Debabrata Das
Delhi : Mayank Agarwal, Murali Vijay, Dinesh Karthik (Capt. & wk), Jean-Paul Duminy, Manoj Tiwary, Ross Taylor, James Neesham, Rahul Sharma, Wayne Parnell, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Shami, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jaydev Unadkat, Laxmi Shukla, Kedar Jadhav, Kevin Pietersen, Rahul Shukla, Saurabh Tiwary, Siddarth Kaul, Quinton de Kock, Milind Kumar, HS Sharath, Jayant Yadav
Match facts
Saturday April 19, 2014 (day/night)
Start time 1830 (1430 GMT, 2000 IST)
