Pune made a couple of changes, bringing in Albie Morkel and Saurabh Tiwary in place of Kevin Pietersen and Ishant Sharma in the playing XI.
Kolkata brought in R Sathish for Manish Pandey who is down with chicken pox.
Teams:
Rising Pune Supergiants: Ajinkya Rahane, Faf du Plessis, Steven Smith, Sourabh Tiwary, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (C & WK), Thisara Perera, Albie Morkel, Rajat Bhatia, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ankit Sharma, Murugan Ashwin
Kolkata Knight Riders: Robin Uthappa (WK), Gautam Gambhir (C), Suryakumar Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Rajagopal Sathish, Piyush Chawla, Sunil Narine, Morne Morkel, Umesh Yadav.