KKR vs Chargers, 32nd match at Hyderabad, IPL, May 11 2008 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Rao clubs a full delivery straight back to Shukla, and that's a fairly comprehensive 23-run win for Kolkata

makes room and carves this one over backward point, Ishant slides and pulls it off close to the rope, the third umpire has a look and confirms that Ishant's boot wasn't touching the rope

full outside off, he swings across the line and places it wide of midwicket

full on middle and leg and RP smashes it hard past the bowler and down to long-on

RP only manages to club a fullish delivery back to the bowler

Dropped: Rao takes a couple of paces down and gets a thick top edge off a high full toss, Saha runs to square leg and drops it, the umpire signals a waist high no-ball

Shukla gets away with a high full toss and Rao clubs it to deep midwicket, he turns down the single

pitched up outside the offstump, Rao has a swing at it and places it to long-off, a bit more timing and that would have cleared the rope

Gul fails to control the inswing and directs it wide down the leg side, there was a boundary opportunity for Rao there

RP makes room and biff it across the line but ends up mistiming it down to the on side

Rao drags a full delivery from outside off and almost flicks it on one leg, long-on picks it up

Gul tries something different and bangs in a bouncer, unfortunately he drags too far outside leg

this time Rao connects and it's maximum, Gul fails to land that on a yorker length but it was in the slot for Rao to carve that over deep extra cover

excellent stuff again from Gul as he fires in another yorker, Rao plays a tired slog and edges it onto his pads

Rao makes room to flick through the on side and Gul follows him, the ball rolls off his pads

Vaas makes a little too much room to slog but the ball is too full for that stroke, it lands on the base of legstump and takes it out

fires in another yorker and Rao can only dig it out for a single towards gully

he fires in the faster yorker but Rao fails to make contact this time

excellent improvisation! Shukla bowls it full outside off, Rao gets across his stumps quickly and deftly paddles it over short fine leg, he's in the form of his life

fires in the yorker, Vaas whips it close to his pads and gives Rao the strike