Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals, 2nd Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: Indian Premier League, 2016 Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata Date & Time: Apr 10, 08:00 PM LOCAL
THE CHAMPYAAN returns to the scene of his rise
THE CHAMPYAAN returns to the scene of his rise © Cricbuzz

Just a week ago, Carlos Brathwaite went 6, 6, 6, 6 at the Eden Gardens to script one of the greatest fairy-tale finishes in T20 cricket. He won't be as vociferously cheered today when he slips on a blue and red jersey to take on the home team - the Kolkata Knight Riders. Welcome to Match 2 of IPL 2016. This one promises to be much fun.

So much has changed for the Knight Riders and the Daredevils, two of the old guards of the IPL. Daredevils made two semifinals in the first two seasons while Knight Riders condemned themselves to myriad jokes. Ever since Gambhir made that trip from Delhi to Kolkata, Knight Riders' fortunes have skyrocketed. Daredevils, on the other hand, have adopted a slash and burn approach that is yet to reap rewards.

Kolkata have experience aplenty, Delhi have the exuberance of youth. It's Gambhir v Zaheer Khan, two old mates, two former world champions without the burden of expectation weighing them down. One's retired, the other has not set any sights on a national-team recall.

What should the teams' foreign player combination look like?

I'm going with Shakib Al Hasah, Andre Russell, Morne Morkel and Brad Hogg (because of the Eden spin factor) for KKR and Brathwaite, de Kock, JPD and Imran Tahir.

What do you think? Think there's a place for Chris Lynn , Colin Munro or Nathan Coulter-Nile. Send in your opinions, with Tweets to @kausheikh. We'll feature them on our website. And who knows? Maybe we could retweet them as well. That's another 100 followers. Just saying.
What do you think? Think there's a place for Chris Lynn , Colin Munro or Nathan Coulter-Nile. Send in your opinions, with Tweets to @kausheikh. We'll feature them on our website. And who knows? Maybe we could retweet them as well. That's another 100 followers. Just saying.

The coin is flipped. Zaheer yells heads. It comes down tails. Gautam Gambhir will bowl first. That is the T20 template, a sophisticated way, at times, to say you don't know what the pitch would play like. KKR leave out Shakib but Munro and Hastings get a game. Delhi leave out Duminy and Tahir. So much for the line-up predictions.

Teams:

Kolkata: Gautam Gambhir(c), Robin Uthappa(w), Manish Pandey, Colin Munro, Suryakumar Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, John Hastings, Brad Hogg, Umesh Yadav

Delhi: Quinton de Kock(w), Mayank Agarwal, Shreyas Iyer, Karun Nair, Sanju Samson, Carlos Brathwaite, Pawan Negi, Chris Morris, Amit Mishra, Zaheer Khan(c), Nathan Coulter-Nile

What they said:

Gambhir: Jacques (Kallis) has been involved with the set up for sometime, hopefully we will give him a winning start as a coach. Looks a good wicket, the ball will come on nicely.

Zaheer: Good that we will be batting first, he (Brathwaite) will have enough time to settle down in the new dressing room

Gambhir's no-look coin toss works - He won the toss and elected to bowl
Gambhir's no-look coin toss works - He won the toss and elected to bowl ©Reuters

One pull shot too many for de Kock as he top edges a Russell delivery to Yusuf Pathan at mid off. Dre. strikes three balls later to dismiss young sensation Shreyas Iyer out for a duck. Full and straight, bat misses ball, pad doesn't. Early shower for Iyer. Superb come back from the Kolkata. Rebuilding time for Delhi.

It's not India but it is an Indian side and that's enough for Quinton de Kock to get off to a sparking start. It's Mayank Agarwal, who gets us underway with an up and over drive off Russell. De Kock goes one better in the next, bowled by Umesh, using the extra pace to pull in front of square. KKR haven't helped themselves with a sloppy overthrow.

By the way, plenty of empty seats at the Eden Gardens. Cricket overdose? If you've just witnessed an India-Pakistan and a World Cup final, you can be excused to missing an IPL game.

Do make sure you have close to full attendance when the state goes to polls next week, Bengal!

Zaheer Khan walks from retirement to television studios and back to the cricket ground. He threw his bat around, added four runs before miscuing one shot too many. Delhi fold for 98, their seventh sub-100 total in IPL - the most for any franchise in this tournament. Face this, DD have never defended a total under 150!

Look at these bowling for bowling figures:

Andre Russell - 3-0-24-3John Hastings - 2.4-1-6-2Brad Hogg- 4-1-19-3Piyush Chawla - 4-0-21-2
Andre Russell - 3-0-24-3John Hastings - 2.4-1-6-2Brad Hogg- 4-1-19-3Piyush Chawla - 4-0-21-2

Russell gets another. Surely this wasn't discussed in the team meeting. Mayank chases a wide delivery and succeeds in only getting a thickish edge that flies to the gleeful waiting hands of Brad Hogg at third man. Karun Nair follows Mayank back to the crease in the next over, hitting John Hastings, straight to backward point. 35 for 4 in the powerplay. Rahul Dravid has a rather sombre look in the dressing room for the opening match of the season.

Sanju Samson, who elegantly clipped a ball through mid-wicket for four, is joined by the former CSK all-rounder Pawan Negi. Crucial partnership this.

Oh and by the way, Hastings bowling figures read 2-1-1-1

So, Samson and Negi have arrested the fall of wickets, somewhat. The Daredevils have 53 on the board as the broadcasters call for a strategic time out. They have 11 overs and spin is yet to make an appearance. Let's have a sweepstakes, shall we? I reckon they'll get around 117!

Send in your predictions @kaushik_cb. Let's see who gets it close.

Kaushik: 117GV Prakash: 137Deepu: 129Narbavi: 140Pradeep: 145Akshay: 127Krishna: 99Bharath: 115Abhishek: 120
Kaushik: 117GV Prakash: 137Deepu: 129Narbavi: 140Pradeep: 145Akshay: 127Krishna: 99Bharath: 115Abhishek: 120

There's bounce and there's spin. Brad Hogg troubles both Samson and Negi, before the latter attempts to hit out of trouble and is beaten all ends up. Uthappa completes a simple stumping much to the delight of my colleague who has him in his fantasy league. Carlos, the big unit, Brathwaite (as Manjrekar calls him) makes it 6,6,6,6,6 when he smokes his first delivery (off Chawla) over the deep mid-wicket fence and then almost immediately fails to read a googly and is caught plumb in front of the wicket. Six down and Dravid appears to have aged further!

They are falling like nine pins! Another googly from Chawla and Morris is cleaned up. Samson, who had put on a resolute defense, nicks one off Hogg in the next over to fall for 15. Has been a shambolic batting performance ever since they'd raced away to 23 in the first two overs. At the toss, Zaheer Khan said he wanted to bat first anyway. Is that a second successive pitch misread? Hasn't been easy. There's bounce and turn on this Eden Surface.

#KKR have bowled out their opponents 7 times in the IPL. They have won all 7 games. #KKRStats #AmiKKR #KKRvDD
10 Apr 2016

Zak's missing his line, slips in a succession of deliveries down Gambhir's pads and KKR are away. The Delhi skipper has condeded 16 in his first over. Coulter-Nile beats Uthappa's bat but is struck for a boundary immediately after as the hosts race away to a brisk start. They have 36 on the board in 4 overs.

It was a walk in the park for the two-time champs. Delhi started really well and then imploded to collapse to their seventh sub-100 total. Russell and Hogg, three wickets apiece, ran riot amongst the Delhi batsmen, whose daredevilry led to their downfall. This was a Kolkata surface that aided bounce and took turn. Once Kolkata had restricted their opposition to 98, there was no coming back. Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa added 69 for the the first wicket to all but confirm the result. Kolkata join Pune at the top of the table with 2 points. That's it from us today. Here's hoping for a closer contest tomorrow when Gujarat Lions taken on the Kings XI Punjab.

Robin Uthappa cannot finish it off. Steps out to Amit Mishra but cannot clear the fielder in the deep at long off. Nevertheless, it's been a good 35 from Robin. KKR are almost home and dry. We've had two rather one-sided encounters to start the ninth season of IPL. Where's the drama!

Robin Uthappa scored a brisk 35 to set up an easy win for KKR
Robin Uthappa scored a brisk 35 to set up an easy win for KKR ©Reuters
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