Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders Match Preview

Indian Premier League is back in action in year 2010 and back in India as well. Last year defending champions Deccan Chargers will be facing Kolkata Knight Riders in the opener of IPL 2010. Deccan Chargers have proved their strengths in the last Season and will be ready to smash it again in this year IPL as well.

Kolkata Knight Riders has been the most underperformed team in both the IPL season. They have only won 9 out of the 28 previous IPL encounters.

The squads:
Deccan Chargers: Adam Gilchrist (captain), Ashish Reddy, Anirudh Singh, Azhar Bilakhia, Herschelle Gibbs, Harmeet Singh, VVS Laxman, Monish Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh, Tirumalasetti Suman, Bodapati Sumanth, Andrew Symonds, Chaminda Vaas, Venugopal Rao, Arjun Yadav.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Varun Aaron, Ajit Agarkar, Ashok Dinda, Eklak Ahmad, Rohan Gavaskar, Brad Hodge, Iqbal Abdulla, Murali Kartik, Harshad Khadiwale, Charl Langeveldt, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Chirag Pathak, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha, Owais Shah, Ishant Sharma, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary and Ganapathi Vignesh