Kolkata Knight Riders wins the toss, to bowl first against Rajasthan Royals in Game 12 of the Indian Premier League, being played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Gautam Gambhir is the Man of the Match for his well made 75

A clinical performance from Gautam Gambhir and Jacques Kallis means Kolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan by nine wickets.

None of the bowlers looked effective against Gambhir’s or Kallis’ as a magnificent 152-run partnership off 103 balls sealed the match.

Such was the class that Royals’ bowlers looked clueless as even the Warnie was ineffective.

Kolkata finished the game with two overs and three balls to spare.Both Gambhir and Kallisremained unbeaten at 75 and 80 runs respectively.

Teams :

Kolkata Knight Riders : Manvinder Bisla(wk), Jacques Kallis, Gautam Gambhir(c), Manoj Tiwary, Eoin Morgan, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Brett Lee, Rajat Bhatia, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Iqbal Abdulla

KKR welcomes Brett Lee and Shakib Al Hasan to the team, whileRyan ten Doeschate misses out.

Rajasthan Royals : Shane Watson, Amit Paunikar(wk), Rahul Dravid, Johan Botha, Ross Taylor, Ashok Menaria, Abhishek Raut, Amit Singh, Shane Warne(c), Siddharth Trivedi, Nayan Doshi

Shaun Tait makes way for Shane Watson, while Nayan Doshi replaces Ajinkya Rahane in Rajasthan’s playing XI.