Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab have weather as a reason to worry about since both the teams have suffered defeats in their opening matches in IPL season 2.
They are, after all, to play here on Tuesday (the day’s first match) and desperate to log their first points.
“Right now, I’m largely thinking of the weather… I’ve been informed that there’s a 60 per cent chance of rain in the morning,” the Kings XI captain, Yuvraj Singh, told.
While his team lost to the Delhi DareDevils in a rain-shortened match, the Knight Riders were handed an eight-wicket defeat by the Deccan Chargers.
Both matches were in Cape Town.
Yuvraj, though, isn’t reading too much into the losses. “We were, to a large extent, done in by rain… As for the Knight Riders, I see them as dangerous… Any team with Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum at the top would be just that…”
Till late on Monday, the Knight Riders’ XI hadn’t been finalised. It’s to be seen whether Mashrafe Mortaza, who’d been fiercely sought by the Kings XI during this year’s auction, is fielded by the Knight Riders.
The match, indeed, will be both a cricket and a Bollywood battle — Shah Rukh Khan versus Preity Zinta, off the field.
