New Delhi: Winning the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) invited Delhi Daredevils (DD) to bat first in Indian Premier League (IPL 2018) at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground here on Friday.
KKR skipper Dinesh Karthik made only one change in the squad recalling Aussie paceman Mitchell Johnson in place of Tom Curran.
The new DD captain Shreyas Iyer informed that former skipper Gautam Gambhir has been excluded from the playing XI along with Dan Christian. Colin Munro and Vijay Shankar have been included in the team.
Here are the two squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR): Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik (wk/c), Andre Russell, Shubman Gill, Mitchell Johnson, Piyush Chawla, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav
Delhi Daredevils (DD): Prithvi Shaw, Colin Munro, Glenn Maxwell, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Liam Plunkett, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Trent Boult