IN THE third match of the IPL 4 this evening, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) will start their campaign at Kochi's Nehru Stadium. In the Indian Premier League, Kochi Tuskers Kerala is debuting with this match.
RCB, who was the semifinalist of the last two editions of the IPL, is looking like a complete and balanced team. Royal Challengers Bangalore team has the combination of young and experienced cricketers such as captain Vettori, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, and Saurabh Tiwary.
In the KTK team, Mahela Jayawardene, Brendon McCullum, VVS Laxman, Muttiah Muralitharan are some big names in the international arena. However, Laxman has not played instant cricket for a long time except last year's IPL. Kochi Tuskers Kerala has has some T20 specialist players.
Given below are the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) squads for the IPL 2011:
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB): Daniel Vettori (capt), Mayank Agarwal, Sreenath Aravind, Arun Karthik, BN Bharath, Raju Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Nuwan Pradeep, Muralidharen Gautam, Mohammad Kaif, Abrar Kazi, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Charl Langeveldt, Abhimanyu Mithun, Dirk Nannes, Ryan Ninan, Asad Pathan, Luke Pomersbach, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rilee Rossouw, Saurabh Tiwary, Johan van der Wath, Jonathan Vandiar.
Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK): Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Balachandra Akhil, Deepak Chougule, Gnaneswara Rao, Raiphi Gomez, John Hastings, Brad Hodge, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Michael Klinger, VVS Laxman, Brendon McCullum, Chandan Madan, Sushant Marathe, Muttiah Muralitharan, Steve O'Keefe, Prasanth Padmanabhan, Parthiv Patel (wk), Thisara Perera, Ramesh Powar, Owais Shah, RP Singh, Steven Smith, Sreesanth, Tanmay Srivastava, Vinay Kumar, Yashpal Singh.
The live action of the second match of IPL 2011, between RCB vs KTK will start from 8:00 PM and all details regarding the match will be available after clicking Here.
