The Knight Riders drew first blood when Suchitra Senanayake struck to dismiss Bangalore opener Chetestwar Pujara early.
Senanayake had Pujara (5) caught at cover point by Laxmipathy Balaji after Kolkata skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and decided to bowl.
Soon after, Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli (17) too failed to make an impression when he had his stumps knocked over after getting an inside edge off the bowling of Jacques Kallis.
Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers then seemed to steady the Bangalore innings as they put up a precarious 24-run partnership for the 3rd wicket.
However, mystery spinner Sunil Narine had other ideas in mind when he completely bamboozled the West Indian who was brilliantly stumped by Kolkata wicketkeeper Manvinder Bisla for a score of 33.
That prompted Moises Henriques to come out to the crease who along with De Villiers put up a quick-fire 25 runs for the 4th wicket, but the smiling assassin Balaji scalped De Villiers to put KKR in command.
Narine and Kallis then rubbed more salt on the Bangalore wounds when they picked up the wickets of Saurabh Tiwary (1) and Henriques (11) in successive overs.
The Knight Riders have made two changes for this match with Senanayake and Debabrata Das replacing Eoin Morgan and Iqbal Abdulla.
On the other hand, the Royal Challengers bring in Abhimanyu Mithun for Syed Mohammad.
The Knight Riders will be eyeing revenge in their match against the Royal Challengers in Ranchi's first IPL game at the Jharkhand Cricket Association's International stadium.
Both teams will go into the match high on confidence winning their last games. While KKR comprehensively beat a hapless Pune Warriors, RCB pulled off a thriller against the Delhi Daredevils on Friday.
Teams:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Manvinder Bisla, Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis, Yusuf Pathan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Manoj Tiwary, Debabrata Das, Rajat Bhatia, Suchitra Senanayake, Sunil Narine, Laxmipathy Balaji.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Cheteshwar Pujara, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Moises Henriques, Saurabh Tiwary, Ravi Rampaul, Abhimanyu Mithun, R Vinay Kumar, Murali Kartik, Jaydev Unadkat.
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