Eden Gardens and Kolkata being painted in Knight Riders’ golden black color; preparations underway for Sunday’s match against Deccan Chargers
After their electrifying victory over Vijay Mallya’s Rahil Dravid-led Bangalore Royal Challengers, the Kolkata Knight Riders is all set to host their first home match of the DLF IPL in Kolkata on Sunday. The entire Kolkata city is waking up to the celebrations and the preparations surrounding their first home match, and that too against the much hyped Hyderabad Deccan Chargers.
Kolkata Knight Riders, owned by Bollywood badshah Shah RUkh Khan, is in scintillating form after their mega victory against the Bangalore Knight Riders. The destructive attitude shown by Brendon McCullum and henceforth the victory over Bangalore Royal Challengers, is sure to attract a lot of attention from the Kolkata cricket fans for SUndays’s match against the mighty Deccan Chargers led by VVS Laxman.
Shah Rukh Khan said, “”At the Eden Gardens, where the matches will be played, we will exhibit two helmets, an 18-carat gold-plated and a diamond studded one, to show the other teams that we are the declared winners. The matches are just child’s play for us.”
SRK continued on the presence of Bollywood beauties at the Eden Gardens, “”I believe it’s my duty to entertain people whether it’s in films or in the IPL matches. Though I am not going to dance at the gallery, I will be present at the Eden (Garden). Rani (Mukherjee), Bipasha (Basu) and Kareena (Kapoor) have verbally confirmed their presence. With Kareena, now-a-days, we get a Saif Ali Khan free. So Saif can also be expected. I will personally try to convince John (Abraham) and Karan (Johar) to fly down as well.”
Meanwhile, Shah Rukh Khan’s fans club is also doing their bit of entertaining. The have arranged a procession from Hatibagan in central Kolkata to the Eden Gardens. A group of twenty belly dancers will add colours to the procession.
Arnab Roy, joint secretary of Shah Rukh Khan Fans Club, said, “We will also decorate the gallery with Knight Riders flags, banners and festoons. Shah Rukh has promised to help us deck up the gallery.”
Screening of selected matches of Kolkata Knight Riders would be held at various places across the Kolkata city. Kolkata is wearing a mask of excitement with Kolkata cricket fans wearing golden black hoardings and posters of the ‘Knights’ being displayed all across the city.
In the last match of the Kolkataq Knight Riders in Bangalore in which they demolished the Bangalore ROyal Challengers by a huge margin, Knight Riders captain Saurav ganguly had promised that the entertainment would be much larger in Eden Gardens.
After a disapponting start to the tickets sale, its confirmed that the tickets for the first two Knight Riders matches, on April 20 against Deccan Chargers and April 29 against the Mumbai Indians, are sold out. Eden Gardens Kolkata will host seven of the total 14 matches of the Kolkata Knight Riders.
the games were great at eden gardens…shah rukh lightened it up. and so did vivek oberoi. i also appreciate the way kolkata knight riders played yesterday!!! well, done all those who played. oh and another special thanks to ishaant sharma (sp?) for inspiring me
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