Match: 34 T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 4, 2010
Time – 4:00 pm
Today at Eden’s, Ganguly’s Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Sangakkara’s Kings XI Punjab. Kolkata Knight Riders have won the last match and are looking confident to do well against Kings XI Punjab. Kings XI Punjab have had a disastrous season 3 of DLF Indian Premier League, loosing 7 out of the 8 matches. Kings XI Punjab are virtually out of the race for semis and are now playing for pride. Kings XI Punjab hope to restore some of the lost pride against Kolkata and all eyes would be on the top order which has led them down till now.
On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders are now getting the winning combination and if Dada returns to the form, no one can stop them
Team compositions
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
SC Ganguly (captain), CH Gayle, AD Mathews, G Vignesh, LR Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, BJ Hodge, CR Pathak, CA Pujara, OA Shah, MK Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, BB McCullum, WP Saha, AB Agarkar, VR Aaron, AB Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, CK Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla.
Kings XI Punjab squad
Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, Shawn Marsh, Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth, R Powar, V.R.V. Singh, P. Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Ryan Ninan, Ravikant shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Vikramjeet Malik, Taruwar Kohli, Amanpreet Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Shalabh Srivastava, Love Ablish, Manvinder Bisla, Bipul Sharma, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, Mahela Jayawardene, Burt Cockley, Ravi Bopara, Yusuf Abdulla, Nuwan Kulasekara, Adrian Barath, Jerome Everton Taylor.
Final eleven will be announced before match.