Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to field first. The KKR team has a strong bowling attack and will look to captalize on their strength with Narine, Morkel and many more good name to follow in their bowling attack.
Where as if we talk about the Punjab team they are a bit rusty and will look at their stars Miller and Maxwell to fire all guns and make it a WIN day for Kings XI Punjab in this IPL 2015 Season 8.
Lets Look at the Teams, Kings XI Punjab Team
Virender Sehwag, Murali Vijay, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, George Bailey (capt), Axar Patel, Rishi Dhawan/Gurkeerat Singh/Parwinder Awana, Mitchell Johnson, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma
Kolkata Kinght Riders Team
Gautam Gambhir (capt), Robin Uthappa (wk), Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Johan Botha/Azhar Mahmood, Piyush Chawla, Sunil Narine, Morne Morkel, KC Cariappa
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab Live Streaming
Umesh Yadav starts the proceedings for KKR and on the other hand we have Virendra Sehwag and Murali Vijay for Kings XI Punjab. Umesh Yadav starts with a steay line and here is the wicket, Murali Vijay couldn't adjust to the bounce and gives away an easy catch to Russel, at the end of the over Punjab, 2/1.
Morkel is worrying the batsmen with his bounce and pace and Sehwag almost gave his wicket in the second over. Saha comes onto crease and takes on the challenge against Umesh Yadavin the third over, first a 4 and then yes bank maximum 6. At the end of 3rd over, KXIP, 18/1.
Morne Morkel into innings 4th over, and Morkel continues to trouble both the batsmen. And here comes the wicket, Yusuf Pathan takes a simple catch and Wridhiman Saha OUT for a score of 15 runs, Punjab 23/2. Maxwell comes onto the crease!
A. Russel comes into the bowling attack and Virendra Sehwag sends the first ball for a classic boundary, russel takes the revenge and gets the dangerous batsman. Sehwag OUT, Punjab 27/3. Bailey sends the next 2 balls for boudary, Punjab getting the momentum, at the end of 5th over, KXIP 37/3.
Maxwell gets into the party mode as well, slams Morkel for a hug SIX and then for a boundary, Punjab 48/3 after 5.3 overs. At the end of 11 overs, Yadav takes the big fish and Maxwell OUT, goes to the pavillion, Punjab, 107/5 after the end of 14 overs as they loose Perara on the final ball of 14th over. Punjab seems to be in a lot of trouble now!
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