Defending champions KKR won their first game in the run to defend their title. And the one on losing side were Virender Sehwag 's Delhi Daredevils.
Earlier Srinivasan and Dhoni had instructed Delhi Daredevils management to drop Sehwag from the playing XI and attribute it to the back spasm. Dhoni wants to ensure that Sehwag gets no chance to explode back to form and in process find a way back in the ODI and Test team.
Pun intended for above para.
Back to the game, this time the star of the win was Sunil Narine who took 4 wickets and spun KKR to its first win of the season and 5th win over DD in last 6 games. From DD, only Mahela and Dave Warner ran into double digits and the rest failed miserably. Of course they were without 2 of their best batsmen of last season -- Sehwag and KP.
Mahela's jugglery did not inspire "CHARACTER" in the Delhi lads and in the end Gambhir led his team with a 29 ball 42 to a win that also piled agony on the viewers to witness the owner of KKR team once again on the holy Eden Gardens ground.
The sighting of Bollywood "Bhands" is a ugly view on the grounds which should only be left for cricketers to step in. Unfrotunately IPL is a mix of Bollywood crap and cricket.
And yes this time it is YES BANK MAXIMUM instead of DLF Maximum. Pepsi Maximum should have sounded better. Suddenly DLF Maximum sounded better, the word we had bemoaned all this years.
