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Toss Kolkata Knight Riders chose to bowl v Royal Challengers Bangalore
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Dinesh Karthik, the sleek Kolkata Knight Riders captain, opted to bowl of their first match against Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore. Royal Challengers chose Brendon McCullum, Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers and Chris Woakes as their in one more country gamers, whereas Knight Riders gave Mitchell Johnson the nod ahead of Tom Curran. As expected, Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn and Andre Russell were the fairly different three in one more country picks for Knight Riders.

The hosts moreover saved their India Below-19 stars on the bench. They handed an IPL debut to Rinku Singh, who turned into given his cap by Jacques Kallis, and picked Vinay Kumar ahead of Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Shivam Mavi. Royal Challengers went with left-arm fleet Kulwant Khejroliya ahead of his Delhi team of workers-mate Navdeep Saini as their fairly different Indian tempo choice as adverse to Umesh Yadav.

Esteem ultimate year – when every team of workers chose to bowl at Eden Gardens – Kohli moreover admitted his decision would were to trot. The match will moreover be Kohli and Robin Uthappa’s 150th match within the IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Chris Lynn, 2 Sunil Narine, Three Robin Uthappa (wk), 4 Nitish Rana, 5 Dinesh Karthik (capt), 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Andre Russell, eight Piyush Chawla, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mitchell Johnson, Eleven Vinay Kumar

Delhi Daredevils: 1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Quinton de Kock (wk), Three Virat Kohli (capt), 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Sarfaraz Khan, 6 Mandeep Singh, 7 Chris Woakes, eight Washington Sundar, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, Eleven Kulwant Khejroliya

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