After Astonishing and memorable performance by Kolkata Knight Riders in first match of IPL crushing Bangalore Teams Proud into pieces is now ready to take on Deccan Chargers who had promised their fans that they will take any challenge if its next impossible also. Both these sides have same advantage i.e. Strong Batting line up abd this could make Sunday a 'Mega Sunday ' as they both are ready to clash in front of 100,000 plus spectators making this match goes to boundary of Climax.
Brenden McCullum played a superb and blasting inning in first match against Bangalore will be looking to repeat the same things again in sunday match. If he fails, Kolkata have Ricky Ponting and David Hussey can make any side struggle in front of Them.
Whereas Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds, the second-most expensive player in the tournament, are set to give Hyderabad a solid top order. Scott Styris, an effortless player when he gets in the groove caan make any team go into worries. Hyderabad have some all round options like Symonds and Styris which can slow down the run-rate of oposition and Nuwan Zoysa fast pace can trouble any side.
Team Details :
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Deccan Chargers |
| Sourav Ganguly (Captain) | Adam Gilchrist (Captain) |
| Aakash Chopra | Abhinav Kumar |
| Ajit Agarkar | Andrew Symonds |
| Anureet Singh | Arjun Yadav |
| Arindam Ghosh | Chaminda Vaas |
| Ashoke Dinda | Chamara Silva |
| Brad Hodge | Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna |
| Brendan McCullum | Dwaraka Ravi Teja |
| Cheteswar Pujara | Dwayne Smith |
| David Hussey | Fidel Edwards |
| Ishant Sharma | Halhadar Das |
| Laxmi Ratan Shukla | Harmeet Singh |
| Mark Cameron | Herschelle Gibbs |
| Mashrafe Mortaza | Jas Karandeep Singh |
| Moises Henriques | Manvinder Bisla |
| Murali Kartik | Nuwan Zoysa |
| Ricky Ponting | Paidikalva Vijaykumar |
| Sanjay Bangar | Pragyan Ojha |
| Shoaib Sheikh | Rohit Sharma |
| Sourav Sarkar | Rudra Pratap Singh |
| Sunny Singh | Ryan Harris |
| Wriddhiman Saha | Sarvesh Kumar |
| Yashpal Singh | VVS Laxman |
| John Buchanan (AUS) (Coach) | Shoaib Ahmed |
| Tirumalsetti Suman | |
| Venu Gopal Rao | |
| Darren Lehman (AUS) (Coach) |
Team Combinations:
Hyderabad will have to miss the services of Herschelle Gibbs who is just now busy in South Africa and Shahid Afridi, who is in Pakistan's squad for the Twenty20 match against Bangladesh . Ravi Teja, the right-hand batsman will be good option to open the batting with the explosive Gilchrist. Hyderabad will decide on the final composition of their line-up once Vaas and Chamara Silva join the squad tonight after flying in from Sri Lanka.
Part 1 :
Hyderabad (probable) 1 Adam Gilchrist, 2 Ravi Teja, 3 VVS Laxman (capt), 4 Andrew Symonds, 5 Scott Styris, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Venugopal Rao, 8 Nuwan Zoysa/Chaminda Vaas, 9 Sanjay Bangar/D Kalyankrishna, 10 RP Singh, 11 Pragyan Ojha.
part 2 :
Kolkata Will be going with same team as they had against Bangalore and Kolkata may want to continue to play McCullum purely as a batsman.
Kolkata (probable) 1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Ricky Ponting, 4 David Hussey, 5 Mohammad Hafeez, 6 Laxmi Rattan Shukla, 7 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Ashok Dinda, 10 Murali Kartik, 11 Ishant Sharma.
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