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Kolkata: If they had hoped that the string of three matches at home would put them back on rails, all the Kolkata Knight Riders are seeing now is the home truth.
That they just don't have enough men in their batting line-up willing to put up their hands.
If the Knights snatched defeat from the jaws of victory the other night in Mohali, they collapsed against the Super Kings at the Eden Gardens on Saturday to give their bowlers very little to defend.
Having lost four out of their six matches, a defeat can see the defending champions drift dangerously closer to the point of no-return. A win will help them regain some of that aura of invincibility that they carry on Eden's slow tracks.
Significantly, even as they drifted towards defeat on Saturday, their first loss at home this season, the KKR bowling was able to create visions of victory. The attack, led by 'mystery spinner' Sunil Narine, has actually got better with Sri Lankan off-spinner Sachithra Senanayeke coming in with a few tricks of his own. If only the batting would click.
The misfiring Yusuf Pathan's elevation to the opening slot did see the desperation desert his batting for some time, and KKR may want to persist with that plan.
It's bad news for KKR that Sachin Tendulkar is back among runs. Even as Mumbai Indians sweat over skipper Ricky Ponting's form, they can rely on a line-up that also has the likes of Kieron Pollard, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik and Ambati Rayudu.
The bowling is surely Mumbai's weak link, and their inability to stop the then winless Delhi from making mockery of a decent total will have put doubts in their mind.
Lasith Malinga is not his old fiery self, and the team management's decision to have Mitchell Johnson sitting out in Delhi was self-inflected damage. The Aussie should be back firing in his left-arm stuff.
Teams from:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Manvinder Bisla (wk), Brendon McCullum (wk), Brad Haddin (wk), Brett Lee, Debabrata Das, Eoin Morgan, Iqbal Abdulla, Jacques Kallis, James Pattinson, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Laxmi Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Ryan ten Doeschate, Sarabjit Ladda, Shakib Al Hasan, Shami Ahmed, Sunil Narine, Yusuf Pathan, Ryan McLaren, Sachithra Senanayake
Mumbai Indians: Ricky Ponting (captain), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Abu Nechim, Aditya Tare (wk), Aiden Blizzard, Ambati Rayudu, Amitoze Singh, Dwayne Smith, Dhawal Kulkarni, Harbhajan Singh, Jalaj Saxena, James Franklin, Kieron Pollard, Rishi Dhawan, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Johnson, Munaf Patel, Pawan Suyal, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Suryakumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe, Yuzvendra Chahal, Phillip Hughes, Glenn Maxwell, Jacob Oram, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Akshar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah
Match facts
Wednesday April 24, 2013 (day/night)
Start time 20:00 local (1430 GMT)
