KKR bowl first, Bravo makes his IPL debut, Supergiant miss the services of Stokes

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New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders elected to bowl first against Rising Pune Supergiant in an Indian Premier League match in Pune.

IPL’s highest paid cricketer, Ben Stokes is all set miss his first IPL match because of a niggle. He has been replaced with  South African Faf du Plessis, who will play only his second match of the season.   

The Knight Riders have made two changes in their playing eleven, bringing in Darren Bravo, who will make his IPL debut for Nathan Coulter-Nile and Piyush Chawla in Suryakumar Yadav's place.

     

Teams:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (Capt), Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Darren Bravo, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Colin de Grandhomme, Chris Woakes, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Umesh Yadav.

Rising Pune Supergiant: Steven Smith (Capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Tripathi, Faf du Plessis, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Manoj Tiwary, Daniel Christian, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Imran Tahir.