In the opening match of the third Indian Premier League (IPL) at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai, Kolkata Knight Riders will face the defending champions Deccan Chargers.

With John Buchanan coaching and Bendron McCullum captaining, the Knight Riders went through a lot of negativity in the team in the last season. This season, it is Sourav Ganguly who takes charge as the captain and Dav Whatmore as the new coach.

Both of the teams have got their own shortfalls with foreign players. For Deccan, only four foreign players – Andrew Symonds, Herschelle Gibbs, Chaminda Vaas and Adam Gilchrist while Kolkata Knight Riders have six – Brad Hodge, Owais Shah, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Mashrafe Mortaza and Charl Langeveldt.

Teams:

Deccan Chargers: A Gilchrist (captain/wk), A Reddy, A Singh, A Bilakhia, H Gibbs, H Singh, VVS Laxman, M Mishra, P Ojha, D Ravi Teja, R Sharma, RP Singh, T Suman, B Sumanth, A Symonds, C Vaas, V Rao and A Yadav

Kolkata Knight Riders: S Ganguly (captain), V Aaron, A Agarkar, A Dinda, E Ahmad, R Gavaskar, B Hodge, I Abdulla, M Kartik, H Khadiwale, A Mathews, C Langeveldt, A Mendis, C Pathak, C Pujara, W Saha (wk), O Shah, I Sharma, LR Shukla, M Tiwary and G Vignesh

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Kolkata Knight Riders were once again defeated by the Deccan Chargers on the last ball of the game at the Wanderers on Saturday.

A 17-ball 43 by David Hussey took the Kolkata Knight Riders to 160-5 against the Deccan Chargers. Sourav Ganguly made a 41-ball 33 and Brad Hodge hit 48 off 41 balls as the Knight Riders were struggling at the half-way mark. But Hussey’s surge allowed the Knight Riders to put up a competitive total.

Deccan Chargers skipper Adam Gilchrist elected to bowl against the Kolkata Knight Riders after winning the toss.

Herschelle Gibbs, who was dropped after making three ducks, came back into the Deccan eleven. Ryan Harris and Harmeet Singh also returned for the Chargers. Chaminda Vaas and Dwayne Smith along with Shoaib Maqsusi were excluded.

For the Kolkata Knight Riders, their prize acquisition of the second edition Mashrafe Mortaza finally was given a thumbs up and made his debut as a Knight Rider. Brad Hodge also returned for the Knight Riders as Ajantha Mendis and Angelo Matthews were kept out.

Scoreboard:

Kolkata Knight Riders innings (20 overs)
B McCullum     c Suman b Harris                20
S Ganguly         c Harris b Sharma               33
B Hodge             c H Singh b Harris                 4
D Hussey           run out (Gilchrist)              43
WP Saha            c Singh b Symonds                7
M Mortaza        not out                                       2
A Agarkar         not out                                      0
Extras     (b 1, lb 2, w 2, nb 2)         7

Total     (5 wickets; 20 overs)     160

Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-85, 3-117, 4-152, 5-158

Bowling: RJ Harris:2-20, RP Singh:0-30, A Symonds:1-28, Harmeet Singh:0-40, P Ojha:0-24, R Sharma:1-15

Deccan Chargers innings (target: 161 runs from 20 overs)
A Gilchrist           c sub (LR Shukla) b Hodge 43
H Gibbs                 c Hussey b Kartik                   28
T Suman                run out (Hodge/Agarkar)   31
A Symonds          run out (Mortaza)                   18
R Sharma              not out                                        32
Venugopal Rao  not out                                           7
Extras     (b 1, lb 2, w 2, nb 2)     7

Total     (4 wickets; 20 overs)         166

Fall of wickets: 1-68, 2-85, 3-116, 4-128

Bowling: I Sharma:0-23, Mortaza:0-58, M Kartik:1-12, B Hodge:1-23, A Agarkar:0-41, DJ Hussey:0-6

Man of the match: Rohit Sharma

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A fine four wicket haul by pacer RP Singh set up Deccan Chargers to a comprehensive eight wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in their Indian Premier League campaign opener in Cape Town on Sunday.

RP Singh led a disciplined bowling attack of Deccan Chargers with figures of 4/22 to bundle out Kolkata Knight Riders for a miserable 101 in 19.4 overs after Knight Riders captain Brendon McCullum elected to bat.

Rohit Sharma and South African Herschelle Gibbs then hit sparkling unbeaten 43 and 36 respectively to hit off 104 for two in just 13.1 overs.

Captain Adam Gilchrist and VVS Laxman contributed 13 and 10 respectively as last edition’s bottom-placed team started their campaign in this season on a resounding note.

The Knight Riders, who were entangled in a captaincy controversy for weeks before the Twenty20 tournament, were completely outplayed by their Hyderabad-based rivals in all departments of the game.

Chasing a modest 102 at 5.1 runs per over, Deccan Chargers lost Gilchrist and VVS Laxman by the fifth over but Gibbs and Rohit ensured that they start the IPL second season on a winning note by sharing an unbroken 69-run stand for the third wicket.

Gibbs’ 26-ball 43 included five fours and a six. He also hit the winning runs by smashing a four off Moises Henriques to win the match in style.

Rohit, one of the top Chargers batsmen last year, was also fluent in his 32-ball innings of 36 which was studded with three fours and two sixes.

Rudra was well supported by Scott Styris (2/32) and left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha (2/14) who chipped in with two wickets each. Opening bowler Fidel Edwards bowled with a lot of pace and accuracy and conceded just six runs from his allotted four overs though without success.

Australian Brad Hodge top-scored with 31 for Knight Riders while three other batsmen – Chris Gayle (10), Aakash Chopra (11) and Murali Kartik (not out 10) — could reach double figures.

Electing to bat, KKR had a disastrous start with their openers captain Brendon McCullum and Gayle returning to the hut by the fourth over with just 12 runs on the board, both victims of RP Singh. From there on they never recovered.

McCullum had a faint touch of RP Singh’s first ball of the innings by his glove and was caught by his opposite number Adam Gilchrist behind the wicket for just one.

One down Sourav Ganguly was expected to let the willow speak following all that captaincy controversy but the former India skipper’s vigil at the crease lasted just 12 balls and yielded just one run before perishing on 16-3.

Deccan bowlers tied down the strong KKR batting line-up to just 31 runs at the halfway mark for three wickets.

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Their owner may have been the most visible presence in the pre-tournament build-up, but the Kolkata Knight Riders will seek to show they are capable of playing good cricket when they open their Indian Premier League campaign against the Deccan Chargers at Newlands on Sunday.

Knight Riders owner, bollywood film star Shah Rukh Khan, admitted that his team didn’t perform well as he hoped in finishing sixth out of eight last year.

West Indian captain Chris Gayle will only be available for the early matches but most of the other key players, including New Zealander Brendon McCullum, will be able to play in all the games.

McCullum hit a spectacular 158 in the opening match against Bangalore last year and has been appointed captain for the 2009 season.

Other experienced players in the team include former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, Australia’s Brad Hodge and Sri Lanka’s mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis, together with Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma and left-arm spinner Murali Karthik.

If the Knight Riders were under-achievers last year, the Deccan Chargers did even worse, winning only two out of 14 games and finishing bottom of the table.

The Chargers signed a galaxy of big name, quick-scoring batsmen whose performances were erratic, while the team paid for a shortage of experienced bowlers.

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