Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL3, 2010 at Mumbai

Indian Premier League, 1st match: Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders at Mumbai, Mar 12, 2010

Hours of play (local time): 20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.20, Interval 21.20-21.40, Second Session 21.40-23.00

Toss: Gilchrist has won the toss and Deccan will bowl first.


Ganguly: Happy to be back as captain and I can assure you that there are no multiple captains this time around. It is a good wicket so the toss doesn't matter. We are backing everyone to do well. The boundaries are getting shorter by the day isn't it? He asks...

Gilchrist: What an extravanagant ceremony it was and we are looking forward to playing in front of this capacity crowd. It is a 'home game' for us so we hope to have the crowd on our side. I don't think the wicket would change much. We still haven't got all our international players in but the preparation has been good.

Prediction Score: 150 plus is competitive

Foreign players for Deccan Chargers: Adam Gilchrist, Herchelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds and Chaminda Vaas

Foreign players for KKR: Owais Shah, Brad Hodge, Angelo Matthews and Charl Langeveldt

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Sourav Ganguly(c), Brad Hodge, Cheteshwar Pujara, Manoj Tiwary, Owais Shah, Angelo Mathews, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Laxmi Shukla, Murali Kartik, Charl Langeveldt, Ishant Sharma

Deccan Chargers (Playing XI): Adam Gilchrist(w/c), Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Anirudh Singh, Tirumalsetti Suman, Jaskaran Singh, Chaminda Vaas, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha