Rajasthan Royals' Shane Watson to miss first game vs Delhi Daredevils'

Rajasthan Royals' Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will miss his team's opening IPL game against Delhi Daredevils to be played at the Feroze Shah Kotla here on Saturday.

It is learnt that Watson will not be able to reach here before the match would only be available from the second game onwards.

Meanwhile, the Royals had a two-and-a-half hour training session at the Kotla here today. Batting mainstay Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane had a decent hit in the middle.

West Indian bowling all-rounder Kevin Cooper looked like a doubtful starter for the first game as he was seen with his right knee wrapped with ice pack.

According to team sources, young Kerala glovesman Sanju Samson is set to make his IPL debut while the pace attack is likely to comprise Indian pacer S Sreesanth and newly acquired West Indian Fidel Edwards.

Stuart Binny will be one of the all-rounders providing balance to the side.

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Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredvils IPL 2013 Scorecard – 3rd April
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Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils Highlights – IPL 2013

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils Highlights IPL 2013 at Kolkata – Apr 3rd, 2013. Watch KKR vs DD Cricket highlights ipl 2013. IPL Highlights 2013.

Kolkata Knight Riders started their title defence on a confident note as they comfortably defeated Delhi Daredevils by six wickets in the opening encounter of the sixth edition of Indian Premier League in Kolkata, on Wednesday.
Mystery spinner Sunil Narine with brilliant figures of 4/13 kept Daredevils under tight leash while skipper Gautam Gambhir’s useful 42 kept the defending champions’ run-chase on track.

Ashish Nehra gave an early breakthrough removing Manvinder Bisla (4) but skipper Gambhir and elder statesman Kallis added 47 runs for the second wicket before the South African veteran was holed out in the deep as he failed to punish a rank long-hop from left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem. Mystery spinner Narine, who was instrumental in KKR’s last year triumph last season, came to haunt once again when he dismissed the dangerman Warner (21) as couldn’t negotiate the turn and bounce giving Kallis the easiest of catch at first slip. The dismissal was enough to bring the run-rate down as Jayawardene waged a lone battle with wickets falling at the other end at regular intervals. Gambhir got the innings off to a flying start as he slashed Irfan Pathan over point for a boundary and then lofted the bowler over long-on for a six.

Once Kallis was gone, Gambhir-Tiwary duo added another 41 runs before a quicker one from Johan Botha [ Images ] caught the left-hander on the wrong-foot. Gambhir’s 42 came off 29 balls with five fours and a six.

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Kolkata vs Delhi, 1st Match, Kolkata:

Preview: Click Here To Watch IPL In HD Eyeing a repeat of their success last season, Kolkata will open their title defence with a clash against a depleted Delhi in the Indian T20 League in Kolkata. Expectations will be high from the home side as they would aim to become only second team to win back-to-back titles. Only Chennai have won consecutive trophies (2010 and 2011). For Delhi, who are yet to win the title, it would be a season to make amends as they look at life without English swashbuckler Kevin Pietersen who has been ruled out for the entire tournament due to a knee injury. Delhi will also miss out on explosive Kiwi batsman Jesse Ryder who was to begin his $260,000 contract before a brutal assault in a Christchurch bar left him hospitalised. Last season's Purple cap holder, Morne Morkel (25 wickets), who bowled Titans to a semis place in the Ram Slam T20 Challenge in the South Africa domestic cricket, will also miss out on the opener. And if that was not enough, Virender Sehwag is also a doubtful starter for the tournament-opener as he is down with back spasm. Skipper Mahela Jayawardene is coming from an injury lay-off and he too would look to get into the groove sooner while David Warner has not been in good form in recent times. In such a scenario, it's the exuberance of U-19 winning skipper Unmukt Chand, who has two successive centuries for Delhi in the just concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, that would come to fore. West Indian big hitterAndre Russell will look to play the role of a finisher. Till Morkel joins the side, the pressure would be on the Indian trio of Ashish Nehra, Umesh Yadavand Irfan Pathan. That Yadav and Pathan are coming back after injuries would be a point of concern.In the sixth season, nine teams will battle it out in a total of 76 matches, over a period of seven weeks with summit clash slated for May 26. Having recovered from jaundice, Kolkata skipper Gautam Gambhir will be eager to start on a winning note under conditions best suited to them. It would be an important season for the India opener, who went through a rough patch and was discarded for the four-Test Australia series. The left-hander would be keen to be back among runs. Among the foreign recruits, Kolkata will miss Brendon McCullum, who is down with a hamstring problem while Aussie pacer James Pattinson is going through a rest period advised by the Australian board. Jacques Kallis will lend experience to the middle order, while the home grown players of Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Manvinder Bisla and Debabrata Das would also come in handy. West Indian mystery spinner Sunil Narine, the second leading wicket-taker behind Morkel with 24 scalps, was instrumental in Kolkata's success last season. Kolkata will now hope to unleash another 'mystery' spinner in Lankan offie Sachitra Senanayake in the upcoming season. Besides Narine and Senanayake, the team also has Indian left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdulla, who though would face competition for a place in the XI. Kolkata also have a balanced pace-spin attack. Brett Lee, who will double up as a bowling mentor in absence of Wasim Akram, will lead the pace attack. Laxmipathy Balaji, who was most economical last season, will add variety to the attack along with the part-timers in Rajat Bhatia and Shukla.

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Teams:

Kolkata (From): Gautam Gambhir(c), Manvinder Bisla(w), Brendon McCullum, Brad Haddin, 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

Delhi (From): Mahela Jayawardene(c), Naman Ojha(w), Ajit Agarkar, Andre Russell, David Warner,Irfan Pathan, Manprit Juneja, Virender Sehwag, Morne Morkel, Pawan Negi, Roelof van der Merwe,Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav, Unmukt Chand, Yogesh Nagar, Gulam Bodi, Kedar Jadhav,Siddarth Kaul, Sujit Nayak, Venugopal Rao, Johan Botha, Jeevan Mendis, Ashish Nehra,Muralidharen Gautam, Aristh Singhvi, Royston Dias, Ben Rohrer

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Sri Lanka-West Indies series postpone due to IPL 2013

Sri Lanka-West Indies series put off to free players for IPL 6

NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board (BCCI), the richest body in the sport, has prevailed upon the Sri Lanka and West Indies boards to postpone a series scheduled for May since it would have clashed with next year's Indian Premier League.

The West Indies are the reigning World T20 champions while the Lankans had finished runners-up in this year's tournament. The postponement ensures that a host of stars, including the likes of Chris Gayle, will become available for the entire IPL 6 season.

The Lankans were originally scheduled to tour West Indies for two Tests, three ODIs and two T20 internationals in May. The series will now be accommodated into the ICC's Future Tours Programme (FTP) at a later date. Incidentally, the IPL 6 schedule was also released on Friday.

"The Sri Lankan tour of the West Indies was rescheduled to allow players from both teams to participate in the IPL," Imran Khan, corporate communications officer of the West Indies Cricket Board, said in a press release.

The matter was first brought to the notice of the IPL franchises by the Lankan players themselves, who told their team owners to settle the matter with the Indian board as they wouldn't be available for the entire IPL season.

According to sources, BCCI then got in touch with the two boards (SLC and WICB) and discussed the matter.

The board has also promised a tri-series in exchange for allowing the Lankan and West Indies players to take part in the IPL. The WICB announced that the tri-series - involving India, Lanka and the hosts - would be held from June 28 to July 11, right after the final edition of the Champions Trophy in June in England next year.

"It was a mutual decision to host a tri-series," a source said. When TOI spoke to BCCI officials, they denied that pressure tactics were used to reschedule the series.

"As part of the ICC FTP, Sri Lanka was originally scheduled to tour the Caribbean for two Tests, three ODIs and two Twenty20 internationals in 2013. The two Tests have been deferred and will be played at a later date in the FTP cycle," the release said, adding: The bumper season of international cricket in the Caribbean will reach a crescendo when the three biggest teams in limited-overs cricket clash in the Caribbean in June and July next year in a seven-match ODI tri-nation series."

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Ranchi to host two Matches in IPL 2013

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has allotted two matches of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2013 to the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA). The two matches will be played at the JSCA International Stadium here in May. JSCA has received confirmation from the BCCI and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) after a team of KKR had recently visited the newly constructed stadium to check the facilities. Based on the report submitted by KKR the BCCI allotted the two matches.
“As many as 11 venues have been confirmed to host the IPL matches. The nine home venues apart, matches will be played at two grounds which will make their ODI debuts in January 2013. The last two ‘home’ games of the Kings XI Punjab will be played at the HPCA stadium in Dharamsala, which has hosted seven IPL matches since 2010. The JSCA International Stadium at Ranchi will host the last two ‘home’ games of KKR,” said a communiqué issued by BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale. The debut ODI at JSCA International Stadium will be played between India and England on January 19.


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