6th Match: Kolkata Knight Riders defeat Punjab in rain affected match
Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab had both loss their first match and both of them wanted to open their points tally with this match. Kolkata won the toss and put Kings XI Punjab to bat. With good batting from Irfan Pathan (32 off 17 balls), Yuvraj Singh (38 off 28 balls), Mahela Jayawardena (31 off 19 balls) and Kumar Sangakarra (26 off 24 balls), Punjab reached a competitive total of 158/6 in their 2o overs. Sourav Ganguly was the best bowling figures for the Knight Riders picking up 4/24 in his 4 overs. But KKR went off to a flier with Chris Gayle (44 off 26 balls) and Brendon Mccullum (21 off 16 balls) smashing the weak King XI bowling lineup for fours and sixes. Rain then interrupted the match but the results were in favour of Kolkata Knight Riders who won the match by D/L method. Chris Gayle was awarded the Man of the Match for his fiery innings of 44 off 26 balls.
Full Scorecard
Mohali
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Ravi Bopara c Brendon McCullum b Sourav Ganguly 15 15 2 0 100
Karan Goel c Chris Gayle b Ishant Sharma 0 7 0 0 0
Irfan Pathan c Murali Kartik b Sourav Ganguly 32 17 5 1 188.24
Kumar Sangakkara (W) run out (Aakash Chopra) 26 24 2 0 108.33
Yuvraj Singh (C) c Yashpal Singh b Moises Henriques 38 28 3 2 135.71
Mahela Jayawardena * not out 31 19 3 1 163.16
Taruwar Kohli c Brendon McCullum b Ashok Dinda 1 4 0 0 25
Piyush Chawla not out 3 6 0 0 50
Vikramjeet Malik
VRV Singh
Yusuf Abdulla
Extras: b – 1, w – 11, nb – 0, lb – 0 12
Total: (158 for 6 wickets in 20.0 overs) 158 Run Rate: 7.9
Fall of Wickets1-9 (Karan Goel, 2.2), 2-47 (Irfan Pathan, 6.2), 3-48 (Ravi Bopara, 6.4), 4-104 (Kumar Sangakkara, 14.1), 5-122 (Yuvraj Singh, 15.4), 6-131 (Taruwar Kohli, 17.2)
Bowling (Kolkata)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ishant Sharma 4 0 24 1 0 0 6
Ashok Dinda 4 0 34 1 0 1 8.5
Moises Henriques 4 0 32 1 0 1 8
Sourav Ganguly 4 0 24 2 0 0 6
Laxmi Shukla 2 0 22 0 0 2 11
Chris Gayle 1 0 14 0 0 3 14
Murali Kartik 1 0 7 0 0 0 7
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Kolkata
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Brendon McCullum (C) (W) c Kumar Sangakkara b Vikramjeet Malik 21 16 1 2 131.25
Chris Gayle not out 44 26 2 4 169.23
Brad Hodge not out 10 14 0 0 71.43
Sourav Ganguly
Aakash Chopra
Yashpal Singh
Laxmi Shukla
Moises Henriques
Murali Kartik
Ishant Sharma
Ashok Dinda
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 0 4
Total: (79 for 1 wicket in 9.2 overs) 79 Run Rate: 8.46
Fall of Wickets1-57 (Brendon McCullum, 5.3)
Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Irfan Pathan 3 0 27 0 0 2 9
Yusuf Abdulla 2 0 20 0 0 2 10
Vikramjeet Malik 2 0 23 1 0 0 11.5
Piyush Chawla 2 0 8 0 0 0 4
Ravi Bopara 0.2 0 1 0 0 0 3
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