Yusuf Pathan is Man of the Match, "Batting has been going well, and even in crucial times, its working well so very happy. After batting like that and winning the match against RCB, I got a lot of confidence and I hope it continues. Not thinking about anything. I'm just playing freely"

"Obviously have been losing a lot of tosses. We were looking to bat first, lost the toss and that's what I've been doing for a while," Gambhir says, "Still things are going well. Still have a long way to go, hopefully in the crunch situations I can start winning it. Bowlers were very professional. We thought our fast bowlers started off really well on this wicket. Qualify spinners don't need surfaces, they can beat the batsmen in the air. [Having four men close for MS Dhoni] I have more confidence in the bowlers, always see who the bowler is not the batsman. I have a lot of trust in Piyush and Narine. Didn't think it was MS. I don't wan to jinx it [Yusuf's form]"

Presentation time So for the first time in nine years of IPL, Dhoni will not play in the playoffs. . He says, Maybe 135-140 would have been a good score. We kept losing wickets in the middle overs, so there was too much pressure on the lower order. What's important is for someone from the top order to bat through, specially on a slow wicket like this. And if we lose wickets, we can't lose wickets in clumps because the new batsman can't work the ball around easily. Getting a partnership going is important. I said it was important to play freely, even if you are going in to bowl. We can tick off one more box. We have had a lot of injuries, but we haven't had a rain-affected loss. With just nine overs, and they have 10 wickets, and the first three overs were Powerplay, it was difficult. We were on the receiving end. It's okay. Two more to go.

12.10 am Well, it took a lot longer than we thought but the expected result has panned out after Knight Riders' spinners had done their bit in the first innings. Piyush Chawla and Sunil Narine gave away only 31 runs in 46 balls. That's fantastic wicket, not to mention the two wickets Chawla took.

Yusuf walks off the field with his bat tucked under his elbow, gets a pat on his head from younger brother and Supergiants allrounder Irfan Pathan

4.6

Zampa to Pathan, 1 bye

swept away, that's the single they wanted, its a bye. Yusuf leaps up after completing the run and punches his first. Well, he should. Knight Riders move up to 14 points and second place with an eight-wicket drubbing of Rising Pune Supergiants

4.5

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Zampa to Pathan, no run

tossed up on middle and leg, Yusuf presents the perfect forward defence

4.4

Zampa to Pandey, 1 run

flighted on middle and leg, Pandey doesn't read the googly, just about manages to get it off to short fine leg

4.3

Zampa to Pathan, 1 run

stays back to a good length ball on off stump and steers it to point

4.2

Zampa to Pandey, 1 run

goes back and punches a flatter delivery to long-off

4.2

Zampa to Pandey, 5 wide

ah, unfortunate. Zampa slides a leggie down leg, Dhoni cannot move across in time. Four byes brings up the fifty stand

rakesh: "First time In ipl i may not see strategic time out"

4.1

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Zampa to Pandey, no run

starts with the flipper on middle and off, Pandey had been sucked in thinking it was a short ball set to turn away. Had to hurry into a cut

Someone masquerading as Zampa: "You take six wickets and still don't get the next game. Moral: Winning matters :)"

end of over 413 runs

KKR: 57/2CRR: 14.25 • RRR: 1.80

Yusuf Pathan36 (15b 4x4 3x6)

Manish Pandey13 (7b 1x4)

Murugan Ashwin 1-0-13-0

Ravichandran Ashwin 2-0-30-2

3.6

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M Ashwin to Pathan, no run

shortish and outside off, cut to point

3.5

M Ashwin to Pathan, SIX runs

half-volley and Yusuf has smacked it over long-off. No mucking about, after those two early wickets

3.4

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M Ashwin to Pathan, no run

pushed through on leg stump, Pathan blocks and gets a pad to it

3.4

M Ashwin to Pathan, 1 wide

fired flat and quick down leg, Dhoni manages to weave to his left, and despite being blinded momentarily by the batsman, takes it by his ankle. Great work

3.3

M Ashwin to Pathan, FOUR runs

wanted a big, booming drive over cover, has to accept a four through third man. The man was up inside the circle in that region

3.3

M Ashwin to Pathan, 1 wide

googly, zips past Pathan down leg

3.2

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M Ashwin to Pathan, no run

another flatter delivery, wide outside off to deny Pathan the chance to reach it, or at least make him mistime it. And it is the latter that happens

3.1

M Ashwin to Pandey, 1 run

shortish, quick and outside off, chopped through the covers. Khawaja slipped as he was getting to the ball.

M Ashwin, back from injury, with a slip

end of over 322 runs

KKR: 44/2CRR: 14.66 • RRR: 3.66

Yusuf Pathan26 (10b 3x4 2x6)

Manish Pandey12 (6b 1x4)

Ravichandran Ashwin 2-0-30-2

Ashok Dinda 1-0-13-0

"Dhoni walked to Ashwin to have a word by the way. Does not seem to have affected the batsman," says Nagraj from the ground

2.6

Ashwin to Pathan, FOUR runs

attempted the one that spins away, but it was right in the slot for Yusuf. Heaves it over mid-off and ends the Powerplay in a flourish

2.5

Ashwin to Pathan, FOUR runs

now he bowls the offspinner, and Yusuf has picked that too. Slog swept it to deep square leg. The moment the match was reduced to nine overs, we were in Yusuf country

2.4

Ashwin to Pathan, SIX runs

picked the carrom ball! Yusuf waded forward and launched the ball straight down the ground. Pure power.

2.3

Ashwin to Pandey, 1 run

powerful sweep shot from Pandey, but there is a man at deep square leg

2.2

1lb

Ashwin to Pathan, 1 leg bye

a touch fuller and following the batsman moving down leg, immediate adjustment from Ashwin, And that means Yusuf, who was waiting on the back foot, was cramped. Leg bye thanks to Pandey's alertness

2.1

Ashwin to Pathan, SIX runs

thumped! Final over of the Powerplay, so he can take those risks and hit over the top. It was a a flatter delivery, so he could get under it and swing it over long-on

Win Probability

KKR 100%

RPSKKR

100%50%100%

Over 5 • KKR 66/2

KKR won by 8 wickets (with 24 balls remaining) (D/L method)

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