IPL 2017: Battered Knight Riders face Pune Supergiant at Eden Gardens

Rising Pune Supergiant will be looking to land the blow while their high-flying opponents are still punch-drunk from Sunday's bashing in Hyderabad

Kolkata Knight Riders. Pic/PTI

Rising Pune Supergiant will be looking to land the blow while their high-flying opponents are still punch-drunk from Sunday's bashing in Hyderabad. It's just as well that Steve Smith & Co come to the Kolkata Knight Riders' den with something of a momentum from back-to- back victories. The Knights, battered and bruised in the big one, have had little time to recover from the demoralising defeat.

For a 'settled team' flaunting formidable form, it would've been particularly unnerving for KKR to find the very tenets of their strength being questioned in the Sunrisers surge.

What had been touted as a most balanced attack was suddenly bereft of ideas in the face of bold batting, with even Sunil Narine, skipper Gautam Gambhir's go-to bowler, brushed aside with disdain. When it was time to the chase, RPS, having climbed up the league ladder after a disastrous start, would want to slip in through this door that doubts may have opened.

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