Kolkata Knight Riders dismissed Dwayne Smith on the first ball after putting Chennai Super Kings in, but Brendon McCullum still smashed 19 runs from the first over BCCI
Umesh Yadav dismissed Suresh Raina for 8 in the fourth over even as McCullum kept hammering from the other end BCCI
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Brad Hogg then left Super Kings in trouble as he removed McCullum and Faf du Plessis in the sixth over, leaving them on 69 for 4 BCCI
MS Dhoni was undone by a Piyush Chawla delivery that kept surprising low and Super Kings slipped to 72 for 5 in the seventh over BCCI
Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo then put on 57 for the sixth wicket to steady their innings and take them past 125 BCCI
Just as Bravo looked to up the ante he was outsmarted by Andre Russell with a slower ball, for a 32-ball 30 BCCI
A late blitz from Pawan Negi, with his 27 off 13, helped Super Kings to finish on a competitive 165 for 9 BCCI
Gautam Gambhir struck two fours during his 19 but was caught at the deep third man off Mohit Sharma, after he put on 33 runs with Robin Uthappa for the opening stand BCCI
Super Kings picked up Manish Pandey and Suryakumar Yadav in a space of six balls but Uthappa teamed up with Russell for the fourth wicket, with the required run rate approaching 10 BCCI
Russell struck four sixes and as many fours for his 32-ball 55 while Uthappa was unbeaten with his 58-ball 80 as the home side cruised to a seven-wicket win, with their stand of 112 runs BCCI
