Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to bowl against Delhi Daredevils in their Champions League T20 opener in Centurion. (TOI Photo)
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Last May, Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL's most talked about team, finally gave people reasons to talk about their prowess rather than their problems and predicaments.
Gambhir & Co. will now look to translate their maiden title-triumph in the world's toughest T20 league into success at the Champions League T20.
In skipper Gambhir, Brendon McCullum, Jacques Kallis and Yusuf Pathan, they have the sort of game-changers that every T20 team craves for, but KKR's surge in IPL5 came also on the wings of bowlers who used conditions well.
On specially prepared slow turners at Eden Gardens, the likes of Sunil Narine, Shakib Al Hasan and Rajat Bhatia turned out to be an extra string in the bow.
While Shakib and Narine, who was champions West Indies' leading wicket-taker in the recently-concluded World T20 in Sri Lanka, have the class to be equally effective on other surfaces, it will be left to Brett Lee and Kallis to provide the real bite to the attack on the quicker and bouncier tracks of South Africa.
While KKR are in the CLT20 for the first time, some in their ranks, including Gambhir, have played the tournament before.
If the skipper can lead from the front, just like he did in IPL5, KKR will be well on their way to earning bragging rights for being the 'best among the best'.
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (Capt.), Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla (wk), Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Brendon McCullum, Sunil Narine, Yusuf Pathan, Manoj Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan.
Delhi Daredevils: Mahela Jayawardene (Capt.), Ajit Agarkar, Unmukt Chand, Morne Morkel, Pawan Negi, Naman Ojha (wk), Irfan Pathan, Kevin Pietersen, Virender Sehwag, Ross Taylor, Umesh Yadav.
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