Partnership

Partnership of the day, Sourav Ganguly and Manoj Tiwary, 81 in 9.3 overs
It was an interesting partnership: It started off slowly and nearly threatened to kill momentum from the innings but suddenly, came alive after the first time-out. There were 27 dot balls in the first ten overs, nearly five full overs of stagnation, but the time-out allowed Kolkata to regroup and come out firing. All of a sudden, Tiwary started finding his touch and two shots in particular showcased his skill. The first was against a near yorker-length delivery well outside off, he reached out to crash it to cover boundary. The second was even better. Ravi Bopara's yorker was heading towards off and middle, when Tiwary crouched to play a delicate late-cut to the third-man boundary. In between, he swung over midwicket, and backed away from the stumps to drive through off. Ganguly lashed out at Piyush Chawla, lofting and flaying him for boundaries and runs started to come in a flood.

Over

Tiwary takes Irfan Pathan to the cleaners, 20th over of Kolkata Knight Riders
Manoj Tiwary looted in style to transform a competitive total to a strong one. He pulled the third delivery for six, crashed the fourth over extra cover, lofted the next over long-off and lifted the last one to wide long-off boundary. The brutal finish seemed to have sucked out the spirit from Punjab, who dawdled in the chase.

Moment

Chris Gayle had got off to a flier as he looted 19 runs from Brett Lee's first over when Shalabh Srivastava removed him with more than little help from his team-mate. Manvinder Bisla charged to his left on the deep square-leg boundary and lunged as the ball swerved away from him to take a stunning two-handed catch. Almost immediately, the run rate started to dip