Delhi Daredevils started their journey in Indian Premier League on a good note and performed well in first wo seasons. The team was able to qualify for the semifinal and was the league stage table topper in second season. But after that, things started to turn differently for DD as they could never proceed further the league stage in later seasons except in 2012 when they reached the play offs round. The team has been criticized for its poor performance and the franchise reconstructed the whole squad in 2014 but still did not get any result in their favour. They are still looking for their first title and for making this possible in this season IPL 2016, DD franchise has included Rahul Dravid into the team as mentor and Zaheer Khan is named as the captain for the side. Delhi franchise has also taken a strong step by buying an uncapped player Pawan Negi for Rs 8.5 crores, making him the second costliest player of this year after Shane Watson.

On contrary to DD, Kolkata Knight Riders initial three seasons were bad in terms of their performance as they could not move further the league stage and ended at bottom three position of the points table. After facing a lot of criticism, KKR showed improvement from the 4th year and they qualified for the play off stage for the first time and in 2012 the team bagged their first tittle and became champion. They also won 2014 title and became one of the three teams to win twice, other two are Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. For IPL 9, Gautam Gambhir has been declared as the captain of the Kolkata side.

Head to Head Comparison

The result of the matches played between Delhi vs Kolkata till now are shown below. Out of 16 matches played, DD has won 6, KKR won 9 and 1 match was abandoned.

Delhi Daredevils Squad:

JP Duminy, Mayank Agarwal, Khaleel Ahmed, Sam Billings, Carlos , Nathan Brathwaite, Coulter-Nile, Quintonde Kock, Akhil Herwadkar, Imran Tahir, Shreyas Iyer, Zaheer Khan, Mahipal Lomror, Chama Milind, Amit Mishra, Mohammed Shami, Chris Morris, Shahbaz Nadeem, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Rishabh Pant, Joel Paris, Pratyush Singh, Sanju Samson, Pawan Suyal, Jayant Yadav.

Kolkata Knight Riders squad: 

Gautam Gambhir (Capt), Piyush Chawla,  John Hastings, Brad Hogg,  Jason Holder, Sheldon Jackson, Kuldeep Yadav, Chris Lynn, Manan Sharma, Morne Morkel, Colin Munro, Sunil Narine, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan,  Ankit Rajpoot, Andre Russell, Rajagopal Sathish, Shakib Al Hasan, Jaydev Unadkat, Robin Uthappa, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav.

Match 26th DD vs KKR IPL 2016
	Vs
Venue	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delh
Date	30th April 2016
Time	4:00 pm (Local Time)
Toss	KKR and elected to field first

Check live score and result here after the DD vs KKR match will start.

Score:

DD: 186/8 in 20 overs

KKR: 159/10 in 18.

Match Result: Delhi Daredevils won the match by 27 balls.

Man of the Match: Carlos Brathwaite

Full scorecard DD vs KKR Match IPL 2016:-

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