Kolkata Knight Riders v Somerset, September 25
Start time 2000 (1430 GMT)
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Somerset Live Streaming
Kolkata Knight Riders and Somerset will meet for the second time in five days. During the qualifying stage, they were involved in a strange game where despite Somerset winning by 11 runs it was Knight Riders celebrating at the end. They had qualified, along with Somerset, as the best second-placed team from the two qualifying groups.
Given the nature of Twenty20 cricket that win might mean little when the teams met again, but Knight Riders will be increasingly aware that their top order is consuming far too many balls to produce too few runs. Even Yusuf Pathan, on paper their most dangerous player, has struck at less than a run-a-ball in his two scores of 12 in the qualifying round.
Somerset came to this tournament without three key batsmen and would have felt a little bitter that their 21-year-old star Jos Buttler did not even get a bat for England in the first Twenty20 against West Indies. Craig Kieswetter's aggressive half-century in the same match, though, would have reminded them of what they can achieve once the two join them. Their bid to qualify for the main draw was helped by some tight bowling and outstanding fielding, with Roelof van der Merwe seeming to pop up everywhere with athletic stops or catches.
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
G Gambhir*, L Balaji, R Bhatia, MS Bisla†, SP Goswami, BJ Haddin†, Iqbal Abdulla, JH Kallis, B Lee, YK Pathan, Shami Ahmed, Shakib Al Hasan, RN ten Doeschate, MK Tiwary, JD Unadkat
Somerset squad
AC Thomas*, AWR Barrow, NRD Compton, AJ Dibble, GH Dockrell, JC Hildreth, CR Jones, M Kartik, SP Kirby, CAJ Meschede, SD Snell†, AV Suppiah, PD Trego, RE van der Merwe
Start time 2000 (1430 GMT)
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Somerset Live Streaming
Kolkata Knight Riders and Somerset will meet for the second time in five days. During the qualifying stage, they were involved in a strange game where despite Somerset winning by 11 runs it was Knight Riders celebrating at the end. They had qualified, along with Somerset, as the best second-placed team from the two qualifying groups.
Given the nature of Twenty20 cricket that win might mean little when the teams met again, but Knight Riders will be increasingly aware that their top order is consuming far too many balls to produce too few runs. Even Yusuf Pathan, on paper their most dangerous player, has struck at less than a run-a-ball in his two scores of 12 in the qualifying round.
Somerset came to this tournament without three key batsmen and would have felt a little bitter that their 21-year-old star Jos Buttler did not even get a bat for England in the first Twenty20 against West Indies. Craig Kieswetter's aggressive half-century in the same match, though, would have reminded them of what they can achieve once the two join them. Their bid to qualify for the main draw was helped by some tight bowling and outstanding fielding, with Roelof van der Merwe seeming to pop up everywhere with athletic stops or catches.
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
G Gambhir*, L Balaji, R Bhatia, MS Bisla†, SP Goswami, BJ Haddin†, Iqbal Abdulla, JH Kallis, B Lee, YK Pathan, Shami Ahmed, Shakib Al Hasan, RN ten Doeschate, MK Tiwary, JD Unadkat
Somerset squad
AC Thomas*, AWR Barrow, NRD Compton, AJ Dibble, GH Dockrell, JC Hildreth, CR Jones, M Kartik, SP Kirby, CAJ Meschede, SD Snell†, AV Suppiah, PD Trego, RE van der Merwe
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