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Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and decided to field against Rajasthan Royals in their return leg match of the Indian Premier League at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Rajasthan Royals made three changes in the side as Rahul Dravid and Johan Botha are injured whereas Nayan Doshi is left out. Shaun Tait, Faiz Fazal and Ajinkya Rahane took their places in the team.
The away battle won, Knight Riders are playing with the same team as they aim to win the home contest as well. Knight Riders stopped the promising Rajasthan Royals two-match winning run with a clinical nine-wicket victory in Jaipur.
The new-look Knight Riders under Gautam Gambhir started the season shakily against Chennai Super Kings losing the battle from a winning position.
But the Knight Riders, who shunned local hero Sourav Ganguly, earned back the confidence of the city with an easy win over Deccan Chargers in their first home match.
From there on, Knight Riders looked unruffled against the more fancied Royals in their away match that saw some failed strategies by the wily Shane Warne.
The Aussie legend raised many eyebrows by keeping an in-form Shane Watson at number four in the batting order. With Watson not opening, Rajasthan Royals failed to get the blistering start that is so needed in Twenty20s.
Fresh from his brutal 185 not out with a record 15 sixes against Bangladesh, Watson scored a breezy 22 from 13 balls.
Bangladeshi skipper Shakib-al-Hasan, who saw Watson wreck his side a few days ago, did the Aussie all-rounder in after being hit by two sixes as Royals gave the Knight Riders a target of 160.
Chasing the tricky target, the Knight Riders did not look in any trouble at all. Jacques Kallis was at his consistent best for his third consecutive half-century -- this time an unbeaten 80.
Gambhir played a skipper's knock of 75 not out as he took charge on Warne who returned wicket-less conceding 28 for his four-over quota.
