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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After the biggest tragedy in IPL season 2, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) sacked coach John Buchanan. And now former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, former Indian batsman Pravin Amre and previous India coach John Wright will make their presentations for KKR ’s Coach post.

Former Indian Captain and a member of Kolkata team Sourav Ganguly hinted that he might regain the captaincy next season and indicated that his presence at the meeting had not been finalised yet.

“Akram is part of the final few coaches who have been called on August 30,” Ganguly told PTI. “He, Wright and Amre have been called.”

Franchise officials further said that Akram is expected to be only bowling coach as teh former Pakistani legend himself is less keen on a full-time coach’s job and would like to work as a consultant.

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India made amends for their Twenty20 World Cup disaster by winning the ODI series against West Indies by 2-1 after rains washed out the fourth and final ODI at the Beausejour Stadium on Sunday.

The tourists won the four-match series 2-1 following victories in the series opener in Jamaica and the third match on Friday. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was adjudged the Man of the Series.

Dhoni with Cup

The match started an hour late following heavy rains just after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field.

West Indies were 27 for one when rain interrupted play for the second time after they had lost the crucial wicket of skipper Chris Gayle for a duck.

Runako Morton (12 not out) and Ramnaresh Sarwan (12 not out) were at the crease when play was called off.

Team India

With this victory, India registered only their second bilateral series triumph in the Caribbean. Last time they won a series in West Indies was in 2002 under Sourav Ganguly’s captaincy.

India had earlier won the first match of the series by 20 runs, while West Indies came back strongly in the second, hammering the Dhoni-led side by eight wickets.

However riding on Dhoni’s brilliance, India took the unassailable 2-1 lead, winning the third ODI by six wickets with a ball to spare.

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