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Welcome for the match between the King xi Punjab and Kolkata Knight ridres from Mohali. It is a very special day for the IPL. On this day exactly five years ago, the first match of the IPL will be played between the Bangalore and Kolkata at the Chinnaswamy stadium.This will be remembered as the day Brendon McCullum will be smashed the highest individual score of the history of T20s. He will be smashed an unbeaten 158 and got the IPL off to a dazzling start.

Nowaday, five years later, Kolkata were struggling for consistency. Will they manage to win against Punjab today? Stay tuned for the toss and the team updates.Kings XI Punjab have won the toss and elected to bat

Gilchrist: We have trained hard and we're played the same opponent twice in a row, which will be good. Looks like a really nice track at the moment. Nothing will be over until the last ball, the last few results have been extraordinary. It's an even battle now between all the teams. More grass on this than the other wickets in India, but it's not as much as a couple of games back. It's was not a traditional Indian wicket. Valthaty will be returns for Bipul Sharma.

Gambhir: The last game in history and we have to be move on. We have the potential in the dressing room. We can't end up losing such matches as we did recently. We have to be strong at the times and have to be turn it around. We would have bowled first. Hopefully we do well in the first 6 overs. We were not played as a unit. Sometimes the bowlers have to be done a good job but the batsmen have not complemented them. I thought we should have won the previous game but hope to turn it around. McCullum and Lee replace Shakib and ten DOeschate.

McCullum: It was an amazing day and to get the result for the team was fantastic, hopefully can do that again today. It's about momentum which can builds up through the innings. Many of the people around the world have played such innings, there are a lot of match winners in this tournament who have done that. We have expected to win the previous game and we were in it for 95% of the game. It's important to take positives from the game and we spoke about it. Happy for the other New Zealand players who are doing well in the tournament.