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Lions bowl in first T20 in Kanpur; Holder replaces Russell

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Toss Gujarat Lions chose to bowl v Kolkata Knight Riders
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Suresh Raina, who missed Gujarat Lions’ last game, returned from paternity leave © BCCI

Suresh Raina, the Gujarat Lions captain, returned from paternity leave and chose to bowl against Kolkata Knight Riders in the first T20 match in Kanpur. “Day-night games have not been played here. And our batting has been good,” Raina reasoned.

Lions made three changes to the side that lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday. Left-arm spinner Shadab Jakati, wicketkeeper-batsman Eklavya Dwivedi and Raina came in for Akshdeep Nath, Pravin Tambe and chinaman bowler Shivil Kaushik.

Dwivedi was Uttar Pradesh’s second-highest run-scorer in the 2015-16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy – India’s domestic T20 competition – with 258 runs at an average of 51.60.

Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir said he too would have bowled first. Knight Riders were forced to make a change due to Andre Russell’s leg injury. West Indies allrounder Jason Holder replaced him.

Knight Riders will book a spot in the playoffs if they win. Lions are currently fifth in the points table with seven wins in 12 matches. Their net run-rate is -0.747 and may need to win both their remaining games to go through to the playoffs.

Gujarat Lions: 1 Brendon McCullum , 2 Dwayne Smith, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 5 Aaron Finch, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Eklavya Dwivedi, 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Shadab Jakati

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Robin Uthappa (wk), 2 Gautam Gambhir (capt), 3 Manish Pandey, 4 Yusuf Pathan, 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Suryakumar Yadav, 7 Jason Holder, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Sunil Narine, 10 Ankit Rajpoot, 11 Morne Morkel

Nikhil Kalro is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo

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