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KKR vs RCB, IPL 2013, Ranchi

Kolkata Face Bangalore in Ranchi Debut

Ranchi: An inconsistent Kolkata Knight Riders will be eyeing revenge when they take Royal Challengers Bangalore in the city's first IPL game at the Jharkhand Cricket Association's International stadium on Sunday.

It is exactly a month since the two teams clashed in Bangalore where Chris Gayle blew away KKR with a 50-ball 85 that was laced with nine sixes.

Riding on Gayle's brilliance and some other notable performers, RCB are among the top-four in the points table while KKR are languishing in the bottom half.

Both teams will go into the match high on confidence winning their last games. While KKR comprehensively beat a hapless Pune Warriors, RCB pulled off a thriller against the Delhi Daredevils on Friday.

For RCB, Gayle's rather quiet outings in the past few matches would be a concern. But that has more or less been compensated by the likes of skipper Virat Kohli, who was quite impressive during his 58-ball 99 in the previous match.

Teams from:

Kolkata Knight Riders:
Gautam Gambhir (Captain), Manvinder Bisla (wk), Yusuf Pathan, Jacques Kallis, Rajat Bhatia, Laxmipathy Balaji, Sarabjit Ladda, Brad Haddin (wk), Debabrata Das, Iqbal Abdulla, Brett Lee, Ryan McLaren, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, Sumit Narwal, Suchitra Senanayake, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ryan ten Doeschate, Manoj Tiwary and James Pattinson.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (Captain), AB de Villiers (wk), Abhimanyu Mithun, Abhinav Mukund, Andrew McDonald, Arun Karthik (wk), Cheteshwar Pujara, Chris Gayle, Christopher Barnwell, Daniel Christian, Daniel Vettori, Harshal Patel, Jaidev Unadkat, KP Appanna, Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal, Moises Henriques, Murali Kartik, Muttiah Muralitharan, Pankaj Singh, Prasanth Parameswaran, Vinay Kumar, Ravi Rampaul, RP Singh, S Aravind, Sandeep Warrier, Saurabh Tiwary, Sheldon Jackson, Sunny Sohal, Syed Mohammad, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Vijay Zol.

Match facts
Sunday May 12, 2013 (day/night)
Start time 16:00 local (1030 GMT)


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