KKR vs Guj Lions, 38th match at Kolkata, May 08 2016 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Time for the presentation:

Raina: Beating Calcutta in Calcutta is always crucial, they are a very good team. We got early wickets and that's what helped us. When you have too many options (in bowling) sometimes you get confused. When Yusuf was batting I thought I'd give the ball to Tambe and then Jadeja, he's so experienced. Bravo was the other option. Then DK and PK always bowl well after the 15th over. Bravo is a great death bowler. When you are playing in Calcutta and against good batsmen it's always difficult to bowl to them. When Finch is in the middle order, you have the lincense to go in the middle overs. That's why I recommended that he should bat there, it helps batsmen like me, Jadeja and others.

Man of the Match PK: I'm very happy that we bowled as per plan today. Raina has always said that I need to bowl two in the start and two later, he gives a lot of confidence so maybe I'm bowling well because of that.

That's all from us today, then. Lions made sure that Sunrisers were table-toppers only for a few hours and Lions are on top again, with 14 points. But Sunrisers have two games in hand. Let's see how the coming matches shapes up the positions. Stay tuned for the rest of the matches, this is Vishal Dikshit logging off, ta ta!

11.21pm What a clinical performance from Lions today. They were given a solid start by their bowlers but the momentum slipped away with the Shakib-Yusuf partnership. It was down to the batsmen and almost all of them chipped in. The best of the lot was DK. He placed the ball very well, showed great timing and used the angles of his bat cleverly to pick boundaries

Andre Russell gets the purple cap and a tight hug from DJ Bravo. "That's how it goes sometimes, we put in the effort but it was their day. It was a 180 wicket and next time our approach will be different.

Gambhir: I think the way Shakib and Yusuf batted, they got us to a total we could bowl at. But we didn't start well, we could have batted more cleverly. Credit goes to Praveen and Dhawal, you need to pick wickets early and they did that. We started with fast bowlers but Brendon and Dwayne have a go at everything. We tried to take the pace off but they go after everything. Dinesh batted really well for them.

Abhinav: "i dont know if u guys would Post it right now, but DK looks like dhanush from the movie maryan."

Manoj: "DK is performing well only for those teams which pays him less. "

Niroop: "This is one of the best knocks by Jadeja. Deserves some mangoes today"

Tathagat: "All the hard work done by Finch to up the NRR. Jadeja enters and presses "Ctrl+Z""

Yogi : "Jaddu is trying his best to make the game interesting and turn the discussion away from mangoes.. "

Mohak: "And this wasn't the last over! "

Naveen: "Surely this is the last over?"

Tejas Shah: "Deliberate effort by GL to improve their NRR..win + improvement in NRR...mission accomplished!!"

Morpheuz: "Karthik pushing for national selection and Utthapa proving why he isn't reliable."

A slip for Jadeja

Surely this is the last over? Hoggy to try

Last time out of the day

Tejas Shah: "Love-Hate relationship of Raina-Short ball continues..!!"

Rakesh Souriraj: "Good to see DK get some runs under his belt this season. With saha not performing so well, he could push for a spot in the Indian line up."

Aman: "This has been quite a breezy inning from Finch. Looks to be in a hurry, but to his credit every shot is hitting the middle of his bat." What a strike rate so far - 290

Shan Fastian: "Any Water Melons Talk? It's Hot and Game is pretty much one sided affair." Give me a solid reason to deviate from mangoes. Water melons are too liquid

Rahul Vaidyan: "huMANGOus six?" It wasn't that HUUUGE but I'll give it to you!

Here's Chawla