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What goes wrong?
Posted on July 11th, 2009 No commentsThe 53rd match of the Indian premier league was held between Rajasthan Royals and the Kolkata Knight riders. Kolkata won the toss and chose to field. Rajasthan stared the inning with Ojha and Quiney. All the batsman of Rajasthan royals dint farewell. It was a collapse by the team batsman. Finally the team scores 101 runs with the loss of 9 wickets. Langeveldt picked up 3 wickets for the team. Kolkata knight rider’s innings stared the inning with McCullum and Ganguly. Shukla played well and made the winning path for the team scoring about 102 runs. Patel picked up 2 wickets for the team. It was an easy win for the Kolkata team and the man of the match was given to Shukla.
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Kolkata clinches the thriller!
Posted on July 5th, 2009 1 commentThe 51st match the second edition of Indian premier league was held between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. This match was played at super sport park, centurion. Chennai super kings won the toss and chose to bat first. All batsmen played well and contributed to the score board. Raina called 52 runs with just 36 balls. The team scored 188 runs with the loss of 2 wickets with 20 over. Kolkata knight riders started the innings well with Mc Cullum scoring 81 runs, Hodge 71 runs. The match was completely in Kolkata side and they won as well. It was one of matches which were thrilling till the very end. The man of the match was given to Kolkata knight rider’s star player BJ Hodge.
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Knights lose again
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 1 commentIt was no surprise in the 48th match of Indian Premier League, which was played between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders. Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field. Although Ganguly played slow with a strike rate of about 80.48, Kolkata Knight Riders managed to score 160 runs in stipulated 20 over with a loss of 5 wickets. Hussey contributed well with his bat, scoring 43 runs off mere 17 balls with a strike rate of 252.94. Deccan who gave a decent start with Gilchrist scoring 43 runs in 31 balls. Rohit Sharma who came in the 17th over fired the balls off the boundary. With 2 sixes and 3 fours, Rohit Sharma scored 32 runs in mere 13 balls to finish a victory for Deccan Chargers.
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Clean sweep for Delhi
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 No commentsThe 39th match of the Indian Premier League was between Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders. This match was played in New Wanderer’s stadium, Johannesburg. The daredevils won the toss and chose to field first. The Kolkata started the batting with McCullum and Ganguly scored 44 runs while McCullum made just 6 runs. The middle order batsman did not perform well and made just 123 runs with a run rate of 6.15 runs per over. Nehra and Nannes picked up two wickets, while Mishra picked 3 wickets. With the target of 124 runs, Gambhir and Warner opened the match for Delhi. Warner scored 36 runs; Villiers scored 40 runs and led the team to success. With the loss of 3 wickets in 17.1 over they reached the target easily. The man of the match was given to Mishra of the Delhi daredevils.
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Delhi Takes over Kolkata
Posted on April 28th, 2009 No commentsThe 31st match was held between Delhi daredevils vs. Kolkata knight riders which was played at kingsmead Durban. The toss was won by Kolkata knight riders who first chose to bat first. Knight riders opening batsman Van Wek scored 74 runs and Mc Colum, Hodge and Henriques played well and contributed 30 odd runs each. The reached to a score of 154 with 7.70 runs per over with a loss of 3 wickets. Sangwan took 2 wickets for his team. Gambhir and Warner opened the match for Delhi Daredevils Gambhir and Warner took 71 runs and 36 runs each. They reached the score of 157 runs easily with 8.26 runs per over. With just a fall of 1 wicket, Delhi won the game. Gambhir was the man of the match.
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Punjab clinches the thriller
Posted on April 16th, 2009 1 commentThe 27th match of Indian Premier League was played between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders at St. George Park, Port Elizabeth. Kolkata who won the toss elected to bat first. Right from the beginning Kolkata struggled to face Punjab’s bowling attack. Run rate was tickling slowly. But sooner Hodge joined with Ganguly to boost the run rate to over 7.5. Kolkata finished their quota of 20 over scoring 153 runs. Punjab who lost their first wicket in first over, managed to score well. Jayawardene and Katich contributed a good performance. Poor performance from the skipper Yuvraj made the easy match a triller for Punjab. But Punjab still managed to win with a finishing touch from Pathan.
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Mumbai makes clear march
Posted on April 6th, 2009 No commentsThe 23rd match of the Indian Premier League was between Kolkata knight riders and Mumbai Indians. This math was played at Buffalo Parl, East London. The toss was won by Mumbai Indians who chose to bat first. The Mumbai team started the game with Jayasurya and Tendulkar as their opening batsman. Jayasurya made just 6 runs and Tendulkar made 34 runs. Duminy was the hard hitter and got 52 runs in 37 balls. The team reached to a score of 148 runs. Sharma, Dinda, Karthik, Agarkar, Gayle and Hodge took one wicket each. Kolkata was riding on the losers way as they lost most of their matches wanted a win to gain confidence bust still they dint manage to reach the target. They reached just 139 runs and failed to meet the required run rate of 7.40 per over. Zaheer Khan took 3 wickets. The Mumbai Indian won by 9 runs. JP Duminy from mumbai Indians was given the man of the match award, which included 4 sixes and one four.
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Bangalore Galatta
Posted on March 25th, 2009 No commentsThe 19th match was held in Kingsmead, Durban between Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata knight riders won the toss and chose to bat first. Gayle played well for his 40 runs followed by Van Wyk with 43 runs for just 35 runs. At the end of the 20 over the royal challengers made 139 runs with run rate with 6.95. Kumble took 2 wickets, while Pietersen and Van Der Merwe, Praveen, KP Appanna took one wicket each. Royal challengers started off the bating with Kallis, Goswami started well scoring 23 and 43 runs, and Boucher made 25 runs with just 13 runs. At the end, Bangalore team out played the Kolkata team. Mark Boucher was given the man of the match award. This was a clear one sided match and it was an easy win by the Royal Challengers.
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Huge Victory for Mumbai Indians
Posted on March 19th, 2009 No commentsThe 17th match was held between Kolkata knight Riders vs. Mumbai Indians. The match was played with St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth. The toss was won by Mumbai Indians and they chose to bat first. Jayasurya and Tendulkar have opened a blazing start. Jayasurya made 52 runs and Tendulkar made 68 runs each. In the end 187 runs was made with 9.35 runs per over. Losing 6 wickets from their side, LR Shukla took 3 wickets, for his side. From Kolkata knight riders, McCullum and Gayle opened the batting but failed to perform well. Only Gangly and Hodge managed to get 24 and 34 runs each. All other lost their early wickets and made 95 runs. Malinga picked 3 wickets and bravo picked two. Mumbai was on top in bowling and batting as well. This is indeed a great match. Mumbai won by 92 runs. Sachin Tendulkar was given the man of the match.
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Unlucky 13
Posted on March 7th, 2009 No commentsThe thirteenth match of Indian Premier League season 2 was no big thriller for us. It’s a fight between lion and deer. Chennai Super Kings took on Knight Riders of Kolkata. But the Lion is not always lucky. There is something above powerful Lions, rain. Yes, the rain stopped the game. The match was abandoned without a ball being bowled. It’s again rain at Newlands. The match referee GR Viswanath awarded both the teams with one points each.