IPL 6 : IPL 2013 - 1st match: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata on Apr 3, 2013 from 20:00 Local | 14:30 GMT

Description

Kolkata Knight Riders would take on Delhi Daredevils in the 1st IPL match of the Indian Premier League tournament. The match will be hosted at Kolkata. Schedule time for IPL match is 20:00 Local Time (14:30 GMT). The match of DD vs KKR is schedule to be played in the month of April 2013. The schedule match between KKR vs DD would be Day/Night and will be played under flood light condition at Kolkata.

Teams :

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS

Coach: Dav Whatmore

Performance in 2012: Crowned the champions after a run of 10 wins in their last 13 games took them to their maiden final.

X-factor: Shahrukh Khan. Ok, just kidding! On a more serious note, it’s got to be Sunil Narine. 24 wickets in 15 games last year, plus titles like unreadable and unplayable make him sound dangerous already.

Full squad: Brad Haddin, Brendon McCullum, Brett Lee, Debabrata Das, Eoin Morgan, Gautam Gambhir, Iqbal Abdulla, Jacques Kallis, James Pattinson, Lakshmipathy Balaji Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Manvinder Bisla, Mohammad Shami, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Ryan McLaren, Ryan ten Doeschate, Sachithra Senanayake, Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Yusuf Pathan.

DELHI DAREDEVILS

Coach: Eric Simons

Performance in 2012: Finished 1st in the league stage, but wilted in the playoffs.

X-factor: The usual choice would be Virender Sehwag (495 runs in 16 matches last season), but we’ll go with Unmukt Chand. The U-19 skipper was India’s hero  during the World Cup winning campaign last year and has also got his first mainstream ad. He should be given a chance to show what he can do.

Full squad: Ajit Agarkar, Andre Russell, Arisht Singhvi, Ashish Nehra, CM Gautam, David Warner, Gulam Bodi, Irfan Pathan, Jeevan Mendis, Jesse Ryder, Johan Botha, Kedar Jadhav, Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene, Manpreet Juneja, Morne Morkel, Naman Ojha, Pawan Negi, Roelof Van Der Merwe, Royston Dias, Siddarth Kaul, Sujit Nayak, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav, Unmukt Chand, Varun Aaron, Venugopal Rao, Virender Sehwag, Yogesh Nagar.