Pune Warriors v Kolkata Knight Riders – Players Comparison – Part 2: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Knight-c71599 Riders clearly the better team in all the departments of the game
Continued from part one …
Ganguly, the Prince of Kolkata, is a great player and would love to prove a point against the Knight Riders which is his previous franchise and he was also the first captain of Shahrukh Khan’s men. He was not picked by the Knight Riders this year and we can expect him to be fired up against them tomorrow.
On the whole, both the teams have quality batsmen in their ranks but the Knight Riders have been much more competitive in the current season.
If we talk about the bowling, Kolkata is far more superior to Pune and there is no comparison between the two teams in this department.
Knight Riders have the class of Brett http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gautam-Gambhir-c58623 can rely on even in the most difficult of situations.
Lee no longer plays Test cricket for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 which allows him to focus on limited-overs cricket. He has been a genuine match-winner for Australia over the years and can trouble any batting lineup of the world with sheer pace.
Other fast bowlers from the Knight Riders have also been good in the tournament. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jaidev-Unadkat-c1626 has impressed one and all with his accuracy and pace and it would not be surprising to see him in the Indian team sooner rather than later.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lakshmipathy-Balaji-c72130 and Kallis have also been quite effective and succeeded in containing the opposing batsmen more often than not.
Lee is the spearhead of Knight Riders’ bowling but the pick of the bowlers for them in the current season has been the left arm spinner Iqbal http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdullah-c41657. He is amongst the leading wicket takers in the tournament with 14 scalps in 12 matches. On top of that, his economy rate is only 6.10 runs per over which is absolutely brilliant for a spinner in the shortest format of the game.
On the other side of the coin, Pune’s bowling in the tournament has been disappointing and they have failed to make any kind of an impression on the tournament. However, young leg spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-Sharma-c83352 has been a real inspiration in the league, although, he never found enough support from the other end.
Sharma has taken 16 wickets so far in the current edition of IPL and is currently at the third position in the top wicket takers list, behind Lasith Malinga and Munaf Patel.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 bowled well in patches for the Warriors but they have not been played lately, which is quite surprising because both of them are wicket-takers and Pune are struggling to contain the opposition teams.
Kolkata will start as favourites as they are surely a much better team in all the departments of the game but they should be wary of a dangerous Pune team which can spoil the party for the Knight Riders.
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