Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) skipper Steve Smith won the toss and chose to field against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in an Indian Premier League (IPL) game at the Eden Gardens here on Wednesday.
KKR were forced to make one change as in-form batsman Robin Uthappa was ruled out due to a niggle. Suryakumar Yadav replaced him.
Pune named an unchanged team from the previous match which they won by five wickets against Gujarat Lions.
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine, Gautam Gambhir (Captain), Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Sheldon Jackson (WK), Colin de Grandhomme, Chris Woakes, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Umesh Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav.
Rising Pune Supergiant: Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Tripathi, Steven Smith (Captain), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (WK), Ben Stokes, Manoj Tiwary, Dan Christian, Washington Sundar, S Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Imran Tahir.
--IANS
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