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2015 IPLT20 Season 8 : KKR vs MI Match 1 Preview

IPL8 Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians (KKR vs MI) Match-1
Date : 08 April 2015 (D/N)
Venue : Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata
IPL8 Mumbai Indians Squad
KKR Time : GMT 14:20 Local 20:00 IST 20:00 MI
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians Preview Match-1 (Pre-match Analysis)
Kolkata vs Mumbai  Preview Match-1
08 April 2015

About Team Kolkata Knight Riders

Previous defending IPL Champion, Kolkata Knight Riders has won IPL title twice in 2012 and 2014. Consistently in previous four IPL Seasons KKR is performing very well under Gautam Gambhir's captaincy. Kolkata is having useful match winning players like: Robin Uthappa, Manish Pandey, Sunil Narine, Yusuf Pathan and Gautam Gambhir himself. Team Kolkata have huge confidence as they are winner of previous IPL title and having good all-rounders in team. Knight Riders would like to continued the momentum of 2014 IPL season and performed well in 2015 IPL edition. In IPL 2014, KKR retained only 2 players, skipper Gautam Gambhir and Sunil Narine. This year in 2015 IPL season, Kolkata have retained 16 player and Australian chinaman Brad Hogg and New Zealand All rounder James Neeshan included through auction process.

See Also : Kolkata Knight Riders Full Squad

About Team Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians, qualified twice for IPL final and won once in IPL 2013 season. Overall, team Mumbai performed well in previous IPL seasons. Having world best administers like: Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Anil Kumble, John Wright and Jonty Rhodes Mumbai is always popular amongst other IPL teams. Rohit Sharma, one of the best Indian batsman led Mumbai with KA Pollard, CJ Anderson, SL Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, AT Rayudu, R Vinay Kumar and PA Patel are most popular names in world cricket representing Mumbai Indians in 2015 IPL edition. Mumbai retained 5 players in IPL 2014 but, this year in IPL 2015 retains 16 player and Australian opening batsman Aaron Finch, New Zealand Fast bowler M McClenaghan, Indian spiner Pragyan Ojha and other Indian un-capped players has been included through auction process. Mumbai Indians has good all-rounders and specialist batsmen to fight against any IPL team. Let's hope Mumbai succeeded to registered IPL title once again with remarkable performances.

See Also : Mumbai Indians Full Squad

Head to Head

Before 2015 IPL Season 8, Kolkata and Mumbai played 14 matches each other : Kolkata won 4 matches and Mumbai won 10 matches in IPL tournament.

Kolkata Squad
Indian Players
Gautam Gambhir (c)
Robin Uthappa
Manish Pandey
Yusuf Pathan
Kuldeep Yadav
Suryakumar Yadav
Piyush Chawla
Umesh Yadav
Veer Pratap Singh
Aditya Garhwal
Sumit Narwal
KC Cariappa
Sheldon Jackson
Vaibhav Rawal
Overseas Players
Sunil Narine (West Indies)
Morne Morkel (South Africa)
Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands)
Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
Johan Botha (South Africa)
Andre Russell (West Indies)
Brad Hogg (Australia)
Azhar Mahmood (England)
Patrick Cummins (Australia)
Mumbai Squad
Indian Players
RG Sharma (c)
Aditya Tare
AT Rayudu
Harbhajan Singh
Pragyan Ojha
Parhiv Patel
Jasprit Bumrah
Abhimanyu Mithun
Pawan Suyal
Shreyas Gopal
Unmukt Chand
R Vinay Kumar
Akshay Wakhare
Hardik Pandya
Nitish Rana
Siddhesh Dinesh Lad
J Suchitch
Overseas Players
CJ Anderson (New Zealand)
Keiron Pollard (West Indies)
Aaron Finch (Australia)
Lendl Simmons (West Indies)
Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)
Josh Hazlewood (Australia)
Marchant de Lange (South Africa)
Mitchell McClenaghan (New Zealand)
Aiden Blizzard (Australia)
IPL 8 Kolkata vs Mumbai Full Scorecard - Match 1
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