Mystery spinner Sunil Narine's return will enable a confident Kolkata Knight Riders to tighten the noose when they take on a shaky Mumbai Indians in an IPl cricket tournament encounter, here on Wednesday.
Both Knights and defending champions MI were a part of utterly lopsided campaigns in their respective lung openers.
While Knights clinically decimated Delhi Daredevils by 9 wickets having bowled the opposition for a sub-100 score, the Mumbai Indians were at the receiving end with league debutants Rising Pune Supergiants giving them a sound thrashing by 9 wickets.
Narine with 74 IPl scalps from four seasons has been instrumental in Gautam Gambhir leading the Shah Rukh Khan co-owned franchise to titles in 2012 and 2014.
If the jet-lagged Narine is available, it will mean a selection dilemma for Gambhir with the Aussie veteran Brad Hogg (3/19) being the pick of their bowler rattling DD for 98 in 17.4 overs.
That apart, KKR has the perfect winning combination in place even if that would mean a heartbreak for Bangaldeshi star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan who could not make the XI despite his fine performance in the World Twenty20, where he took 10 wickets from seven matches.
This will be KKR's last match at the Eden this month as they will hit the road for six successive away matches with West Bengal in the middle of the Assembly polls as Gambhir's men cannot afford to let go the crucial two points at home.
If Mumbai Indians, who had won their two IPl titles at this venue in 2013 and 2015, will have to bounce back from the defeat against debutants Pune Supergiants in the IPl opener, the onus will be on their batters to decode the spin puzzle of KKR at their happy hunting venue.
But going by their performance in the last match, it looked extremely weak as the defence of the title looks very shaky even at this early stage unless they get back to the rhythm at the earliest.
It will be skipper Rohit Sharma who will have to lead by example up front at the same venue where he had scored an ODI world record 264 runs.
It will be all about channelising them to bring out the best XI something that had come in for much debate following their debacle at home.