Match 1 IPL 2013 – Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils
Date – Wed Apr 3, 2013
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wickets

In the first match of DLF IPL 2013, Kolkata Knight Riders registered a 6 wicket win over Delhi Daredevils at the Eden Gardens Stadium. KKR who earlier won the toss and elected to field first did a splendid job to restrict Delhi for a small 128/10. The lone fighter for Delhi was captain Mahela Jayawardene who scored a brilliant 62 off 55 balls(4×8, 6×1).

Chasing 129 to win, KKR lost Manvinder Bisla in the 2nd over but J Kallis and captain Gautam Gambhir then played sensibly and took the score past 50. Kallis was the next wicket to fell as he got out after scoring 23 runs. But Gambhir and Manoj Tiwary took the team close to the target but both fell when the team score was in nineties giving some ray of hope to Delhi. But E Morgan and Y Pathan then took their team to a comprehensive 6 wickets win.

Match 1 IPL 2013 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard

Match 1 IPL 2013 – Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils
Date – Wed Apr 3, 2013
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata

The much awaited IPL will kick start the sixth edition today at 8pm when Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Delhi Daredevils at the famous Eden Gardens. Both teams are well balanced and will be hoping to start the season with a emphatic win.

Team Squads For IPL 2013
Kolkata Knight Riders Team IPL 2013
Gautam Gambhir (c), Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla(wk), Debabrata Das, Iqbal Abdulla, Yusuf Pathan, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohammad Shami, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Brad Haddin, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Brendon McCullum, Ryan McLaren’ Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, James Pattinson, Sachithra Senanayake, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate.

Delhi Daredevils Team IPL 2013
Ajit Agarkar, Manpreet Juneja, Varun Aaron, Unmukt Chand, Kedar Jadhav, Siddarth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem, Yogesh Nagar, Sujit Nayak, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Naman Ojha(wk), Irfan Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Arisht Singhvi, Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav, CM Gautam, Royston Dias , Gulam Bodi, Johan Botha, Mahela Jayawardene(c), Jeevan Mendis, Kevin Pietersen, Andre Russell, Jesse Ryder, Roelof Van Der Merwe, David Warner, Morne Morkel.

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Following are the Mumbai Indians Players for IPL 6

Captain: Ricky Ponting
Coach: John Geoffrey Wright

Overseas Players
1. Ricky Ponting (c)
2. Aiden Blizzard
3. Nathan Coulter-Nile
4. James Franklin
5. Philip Hughes
6. Mitchell Johnson
7. Lasith Malinga
8. Glenn Maxwell
9. Jacob Oram
10. Kieron Pollard
11. Dwayne Smith

Following are the Kolkata Knight Riders Players for IPL 6

Captain: Gautam Gambhir
Coach: Trevor Bayliss

Overseas Players
1. Brad Haddin
2. Jacques Kallis
3. Brett Lee
4. Brendon McCullum
5. Ryan McLaren
6. Eoin Morgan
7. Sunil Narine
8. James Pattinson
9. Sachithra Senanayake
10. Shakib Al Hasan
11. Ryan ten Doeschate

Following are the DD Players for IPL 6.

Captain: Mahela Jayawardene
Coach: Eric Simons

Overseas Players
1. Gulam Bodi
2. Johan Botha
3. Mahela Jayawardene(c)
4. Jeevan Mendis
5. Kevin Pietersen
6. Andre Russell
7. Jesse Ryder
8. Roelof Van Der Merwe
9. David Warner
10. Morne Morkel