This team seems to have it all – star power, utility, flashers, scroungers, pace and spin.

The Knight Riders have also been brisk in marketing and promotions, leading the way for everyone else.

In Sourav Ganguly, they also have a charismatic leader and they definitely appear one of the stronger teams in the fray.

The one thing that would work against them is the number of key players who would return to play Test cricket for their respective nations.