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Kolkata Knight Riders had been losing almost all matches and it has been engulfed by controversies too in IPL 2. This match was very crucial for them to make in the semi finals of IPL T20 season 2. Brendon McCullum won the toss and elected to bat. Kolkata Knight Riders reached a score of 153/3 in 20 overs due to a brilliant innings by Brad Hodge (70 off 43 balls). Kings XI Punjab chased down the score quiet easily helped by Mahela Jayawardena’s innings of 52 runs off 41 balls and a lot of dropped catches by the KKR fielders. It went down to the last ball of the match and Punjab reached 154/4 in 20 overs. Mahela Jayawardena was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant innings.
Full Scorecard
Kolkata Knight Riders
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Brendon McCullum (C) c Vikramjeet Malik b Piyush Chawla 19 31 1 0 61.29
Chris Gayle c Yuvraj Singh b Yusuf Abdulla 17 17 3 0 100
Brad Hodge not out 70 43 10 1 162.79
Sourav Ganguly c Kumar Sangakkara b Piyush Chawla 22 17 1 1 129.41
Morne van Wyk (W) not out 18 12 1 1 150
Laxmi Shukla
Wriddhiman Saha
Ajit Agarkar
Murali Kartik
Ishant Sharma
Ashok Dinda
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 3 7
Total: (153 for 3 wickets in 20.0 overs) 153 Run Rate: 7.65
Fall of Wickets1-23 (Chris Gayle, 4.4), 2-54 (Brendon McCullum, 10.3), 3-105 (Sourav Ganguly, 16)
Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ramesh Powar 2 0 8 0 0 1 4
Irfan Pathan 4 0 37 0 0 1 9.25
Yusuf Abdulla 4 0 33 1 0 0 8.25
Vikramjeet Malik 4 0 23 0 0 0 5.75
Piyush Chawla 4 0 27 2 0 1 6.75
Yuvraj Singh 2 0 22 0 0 0 11
Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6
Kings XI Punjab
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Sunny Sohal c Sourav Ganguly b Ajit Agarkar 25 17 0 3 147.06
Kumar Sangakkara (W) c Morne van Wyk b Ishant Sharma 0 2 0 0 0
Simon Katich c Wriddhiman Saha b Brad Hodge 34 28 3 1 121.43
Mahela Jayawardena not out 52 41 7 0 126.83
Yuvraj Singh (C) c Brad Hodge b Ishant Sharma 14 16 1 0 87.5
Irfan Pathan not out 19 16 2 0 118.75
Piyush Chawla
Ramesh Powar
Tanmay Srivastava
Vikramjeet Malik
Yusuf Abdulla
Extras: b – 0, w – 8, nb – 0, lb – 2 10
Total: (154 for 4 wickets in 20.0 overs) 154 Run Rate: 7.7
Fall of Wickets1-1 (Kumar Sangakkara, 0.5), 2-44 (Sunny Sohal, 5.1), 3-77 (Simon Katich, 9.2), 4-109 (Yuvraj Singh, 14.1)
Bowling (Kolkata)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ishant Sharma 4 0 27 2 0 0 6.75
Ashok Dinda 2 0 26 0 0 2 13
Chris Gayle 3 0 20 0 0 0 6.67
Ajit Agarkar 4 0 29 1 0 0 7.25
Laxmi Shukla 1 0 8 0 0 1 8
Sourav Ganguly 1 0 9 0 0 0 9
Brad Hodge 2 0 13 1 0 1 6.5
Murali Kartik 3 0 20 0 0 2 6.67
Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6
Source: iplt20cricket.net
