Kolkata Knight Riders never got off the ground against a sustained Delhi Daredevils bowling and finished with a very moderate 133-6 in their 20 overs.

No Kolkata batsman apart from Salman Butt and to some extent David Hussey, managed to get any measure of the Delhi bowling and struggled for runs throughout.

Butt scored a polished 48 and Hussey contributed 31. Faraveez Maharoof and V. Yomahesh claimed two wickets each.

Earlier, Sourav Ganguly welcomed Shoaib Akhtar to his playing XI, and then decided to give him a breather, as the hosts batted first.

With the table beginning to get pretty tight up top, both teams, strung together in the middle of the points tally, need to win this one.

In an effort towards that, Ganguly called up Shoaib to bolster his bowling, while young left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah also comes in, in place of Murali Kartik.

For Delhi, skipper Virender Sehwag kept out Dinesh Karthik and called in Manoj Tiwary.