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| Kolkata Knight Riders leave Kings XI to a 2 Game Loss |
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| Pitched By Sharad Chikara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, 21 April 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kolkata Knight Riders has won the match against the Kings XI Punjab by the D/L method. Kings XI Punjab have now been unlucky on two occasions. Brian McCullum won the toss and decided to field. The wonderful atmosphere and lively setting makes it a special experience at the Sahara stadium in Durban.
Karan Goel and Ravi Bopara opened the innings for Kings XI. The first to get out was Karan Goel as he knicks one to Gayle in the slips. Not an easy one to catch but Gayle makes it look so simple. In the fifth over, the runs started to pour in for Kings XI when Irfan hit Ishant Sharma 13 runs including a four and six. At the end of 5 overs, Kings XI has scored 36 runs with an average of just over 7. Ganguly brings himself over and manages to get two wickets getting Irfan out right on the boundary which initially seemed like a six. And then fourth ball Bopara is caught behind by McCullum off Ganguly again. Right after the strategy break, some passing showers came by that halted the play by a few minutes. Ganguly goes for 14 runs including a six and four Sangakkara. Gayle also goes for 14 runs including 5 byes off the first ball. After 15 hours, Kings were 117 for the loss of 3 wickets. Yuvraj scored 38 runs off 27 balls before getting out by lofting a catch to Yashpal Singh at deep mid wicket off the bowling of Henriques. Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle open the innings for KKR and are pretty contained for the first 2 overs. In the third over, Chris Gayle hits Pathan for a six and then Abdullah is hit for 2 sixes in the fourth over. But the real damage is done in the fifth over when Gayle hits Pathan for 2 fours and a six and Pathan ends up conceding 17 runs off his fifth over. Yuvraj brings on Malik who gets hammered for a six and a four by McCullum before getting McCullum caught behind by Sangakkara. Also when Chris Gayle was gaining momentum, the rains came on and at first it seemed like passing showers but then it just went worse. IPL has been a bit out of luck as far as the rains are concerned. Four days worth of games have been played in IPL Season 2 and all four have rain interruptions. Although it is too early to draw comparisons with England weather but let us hope that there not too many rain interruptions going forward.
3.25 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."Newer news items:
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