Deccan Chargers beat Kolkata Knight Riders in a thriller
Deccan Chargers beat Kolkata Knight Riders in a thriller in Match 48 of IPL T20 season 2. Adam Gilchrist won the toss and put Kolkata Knight Riders to bat. Kolkata Knight Riders reached to a decent total of 160/5 in 20 overs with Brad Hodge (48 off 41 balls) and David Hussey (43 off 17 balls) playing brilliant innings. Deccan Chargers started the chase very well and Adam Gilchrist (43 off 31 balls) hit fours and sixes making it look easy chase for the Chargers. But then he got out and other wickets also fell in quick succession which increased the pressure and the required run rate. The situation was such that 21 runs were needed in the last over but Rohit Sharma played brilliantly and scored 26 runs of the last over off Mashrafe Mortaza winning the match for the Deccan Chargers with 166/4 in 20 overs. Rohit Sharma was awarded the Man of the Match his brilliant knock of 32 runs off 13 balls and his bowling figures of 1 wicket for 15 runs.
Full Scorecard
Kolkata Knight Riders
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Brendon McCullum (C) c Tirumalsetti Suman b Ryan Harris 20 18 1 1 111.11
Sourav Ganguly c Ryan Harris b Rohit Sharma 33 41 3 0 80.49
Brad Hodge c Harmeet Singh b Ryan Harris 48 41 5 0 117.07
David Hussey run out (Adam Gilchrist) 43 17 2 4 252.94
Wriddhiman Saha (W) c RP Singh b Andrew Symonds 7 3 0 1 233.33
Mashrafe Mortaza not out 2 2 0 0 100
Ajit Agarkar not out 0 0 0 0
Yashpal Singh
Ishant Sharma
Murali Kartik
Shoaib Shaikh
Extras: b – 1, w – 2, nb – 2, lb – 2 7
Total: (160 for 5 wickets in 20.0 overs) 160 Run Rate: 8
Fall of Wickets1-27 (Brendon McCullum, 4.3), 2-85 (Sourav Ganguly, 14.5), 3-117 (Brad Hodge, 17.5), 4-152 (Wriddhiman Saha, 19.2), 5-158 (David Hussey, 19.4)
Bowling (Hyderabad)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ryan Harris 4 0 20 2 0 0 5
RP Singh 3.1 0 30 0 2 2 9.47
Andrew Symonds 4 0 28 1 0 0 7
Harmeet Singh 3.5 0 40 0 0 0 10.43
Pragyan Ojha 3 0 24 0 0 0 8
Rohit Sharma 2 0 15 1 0 0 7.5
Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6
Deccan Chargers
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Adam Gilchrist (C) (W) c sub b Brad Hodge 43 31 5 2 138.71
Herschelle Gibbs c David Hussey b Murali Kartik 28 34 3 0 82.35
Tirumalsetti Suman run out (Brad Hodge) 31 24 3 1 129.17
Andrew Symonds run out (Mashrafe Mortaza) 18 13 0 1 138.46
Rohit Sharma not out 32 13 3 2 246.15
Venugopal Rao not out 7 7 0 0 100
Dwaraka Ravi Teja
Ryan Harris
Harmeet Singh
RP Singh
Pragyan Ojha
Extras: b – 1, w – 2, nb – 2, lb – 2 7
Total: (166 for 4 wickets in 20.0 overs) 166 Run Rate: 8.3
Fall of Wickets1-68 (Adam Gilchrist, 9.2), 2-85 (Herschelle Gibbs, 12.3), 3-116 (Tirumalsetti Suman, 16.2), 4-128 (Andrew Symonds, 17.0)
Bowling (Kolkata)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ishant Sharma 4 0 23 0 0 0 5.75
Mashrafe Mortaza 4 0 58 0 2 2 14.5
Murali Kartik 4 0 12 1 0 0 3
Brad Hodge 3 0 23 1 0 0 7.67
Ajit Agarkar 4 0 41 0 0 0 10.25
David Hussey 1 0 6 0 0 0 6
Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6
