- BATSMENRB4s6sSR7.3 big wicket, slower short one, Watson waits and waits before pulling, and it has a loopy sort of bounce, and dips as it reaches, and Watson misses it altogether 59/18.4 Shukla is everywhere! Lovely catch at point, diving full length to his left after this was crashed off the back foot by Ojha. It was a poor delivery, short and wide, but Shukla threw himself at it, full length 69/210.2 As good as a catch as Ganguly has ever taken! And it is some take! Yusuf gets too much under this attempted six off a slower ball, and skies it towards deep midwicket, and Ganguly runs back from midwicket, keeps his eye on it, and then in the final instance sees it is falling away, and then dives to complete the stunner 74/314.2 he is early into the pull again, and he has dragged this one from wide outside off onto the stumps, off the bottom edge. It;s not a slower one either, 138ks, Kolkata have made a big comeback into this match 101/513.3 no mistake with this one, done in by a slower one! Is looking for a loft, but ends up skying it towards wide long-on, and Kartik completes a safe catch 98/415.5 another superb catch. By Gayle this time. Raut is frustrated and he jumps out of the track, and is done in by yet another slower delivery. Gayle runs backwards from mid-off and takes a nice head-high catch 103/617.4 Rajasthan are falling apart here. Tries to reverse-hit, the ball pitches in the rough outside what would be the leg stump, turns away, beats him, and takes out the middle stump 115/719.3 good work from Unadkat and McCullum. They risk a second to deep square leg, and Unadkat throws flat and slightly off the mark. McCullum comes forward to make up for the throw, collects it in front of his body, and reverse-flicks the bails off to find his short by inches 126/819.5 Mother of all ironies. Sid Trivedi getting out to a slower one. Ends up skying it towards midwicket and Unadkat gets under it and completes the catch even as he takes a tumble 130/9Extras3 (b 1, w 2)TOTAL132/9 (20 Overs, RR: 6.6)Fall of wickets: 1-59 (SR Watson, 7.3 ov), 2-69 (NV Ojha, 8.4 ov), 3-74 (YK Pathan, 10.2 ov), 4-98 (AC Voges, 13.3 ov), 5-101 (AJ Finch, 14.2 ov), 6-103 (AS Raut, 15.5 ov), 7-115 (P Dogra, 17.4 ov), 8-126 (FY Fazal, 19.3 ov), 9-130 (SK Trivedi, 19.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB SE Bond 4 1 20 1 5.00 15 3 0 1 0 AB Dinda 4 0 24 2 6.00 10 3 0 0 0 M Kartik 4 0 31 1 7.75 8 5 0 0 0 JD Unadkat 4 0 26 3 6.50 10 2 1 0 0 LR Shukla 4 0 30 1 7.50 6 1 1 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR2.3 he has hit a juicy leg-side full toss straight down Watson's throat at square leg. Lucky dismissal if ever there was one 21/12.5 timber! Kamran has turned this game around. For the moment at least. Gayle looks to defend, playing for the swing, and this one goes in with the angle, and squeezes through the bat-pad gap 22/2Extras7 (w 7)TOTAL133/2 (16.1 Overs, RR: 8.22)Fall of wickets: 1-21 (BB McCullum, 2.3 ov), 2-22 (CH Gayle, 2.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB YK Pathan 3 0 32 0 10.66 4 5 0 3 0 SR Watson 3 0 17 0 5.66 13 4 0 0 0 Kamran Khan 2 0 13 2 6.50 7 2 0 2 0 SK Trivedi 2 0 16 0 8.00 5 3 0 0 0 SK Warne 3 0 20 0 6.66 6 2 0 1 0 AJ Finch 1.1 0 5 0 4.28 3 0 0 0 0 AC Voges 1 0 16 0 16.00 1 0 2 1 0 FY Fazal 1 0 14 0 14.00 1 1 1 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Rajasthan Royals , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.20, Interval 21.20-21.40, Second Session 21.40-23.00
Match days
17 April 2010 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Rajasthan Royals 0
Match Notes
- Rajasthan Royals: 50 runs in 6.3 overs (39 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 39 balls (SR Watson 38, NV Ojha 14, Ex 0)
- Rajasthan Royals: 100 runs in 13.5 overs (83 balls), Extras 1
- Innings Break: Rajasthan Royals - 132/9 in 20.0 overs (SK Warne 3, Kamran Khan 0)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 7.2 overs (49 balls), Extras 5
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (SC Ganguly 20, CA Pujara 27, Ex 3)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 12.5 overs (84 balls), Extras 7
- SC Ganguly: 50 off 39 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 80 balls (SC Ganguly 52, CA Pujara 44, Ex 4)
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