IPL 5: Delhi Daredevils win toss, to bowl against KKR in rain-shortened match

KOLKATA: Delhi Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag won the toss and opted to field in their IPL five opener against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens here today.

The match has been curtailed to 12-over-a-side after heavy showers, accompanied by thundershowers, lashed the venue for about an hour.

However, the groundsmen did a fine job to ready the ground for a 10.30pm start.

Teams: Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (capt), Manoj Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Brendon McCullum, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Brett Lee, Iqbal Abdulla, Marchant de Lange, Debabrata Das.

Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag, Naman Ojha, Aaron Finch, Y Venugopal Rao, Glenn Maxwell, Morne Morkel, Irfan Pathan, Yogesh Nagar, Roelef van der Merwe, Umesh Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem.