Kolkata Knight Riders 137/5 (Kallis 31, Bisla 29) beat Rajasthan Royals 131/5 (Shah 31, Shakib 3-17) by five wickets
Shakbi Al Hasan match winning performance gave a moment to cheer to his disappointed fans in Bangladesh. Although he had a poor start in the league but succeeded to keep the winning track of his team in progress. He took three major wickets followed by his brilliant batting later. The all-rounder responded with some boundaries and took the match away from Rajasthan when they were busy in building pressure on Knight Riders.
MATCH CEREMONY
Rahul Dravid (RR captain): "Always knew 120-125 will be a good, but we had the batting to chase it down. They started well but Shakib did well along with Narine and later the batsmen did well. Narine is a mystery bowler, difficult to play, the way he bowled the 19th over was tremendous. "
Shakbi Al Hasan match winning performance gave a moment to cheer to his disappointed fans in Bangladesh. Although he had a poor start in the league but succeeded to keep the winning track of his team in progress. He took three major wickets followed by his brilliant batting later. The all-rounder responded with some boundaries and took the match away from Rajasthan when they were busy in building pressure on Knight Riders.
Royals after winning the toss decided to bat, both the
openers Dravid and Rehane laid a solid start of 45 runs. When the partnership
started to gather pace; Shakib was introduce, he made both the openers his
victims followed by Goswami wicket later. Kolkata had controlled the match till
19th over but the 15 runs in last over helped the Royals to put a challenging
target of 132 runs.
In chase of 132 runs, the Knight Riders struggled on the slow and tuning track of Eden Gardens. Tension increased in Knight Riders camp as Kallis lost his wicket while trying to attempt a sweep on Botha, he missed the ball and was given out as LBW.
Rajasthan Royals controlled the match as Kallis departs, unfortunately their performances couldn’t lasted till the end of the match. Shakib couples of boundaries in last overs made the target very easy for Knight Riders, and were achieved by RN ten Doeschate later with a six he hit to Chavan in 20th over. Kolkata Knight Riders achieved the target in 20th over after losing 5 wickets; Shakib for his all-round performance was given man of the match award.
In chase of 132 runs, the Knight Riders struggled on the slow and tuning track of Eden Gardens. Tension increased in Knight Riders camp as Kallis lost his wicket while trying to attempt a sweep on Botha, he missed the ball and was given out as LBW.
Rajasthan Royals controlled the match as Kallis departs, unfortunately their performances couldn’t lasted till the end of the match. Shakib couples of boundaries in last overs made the target very easy for Knight Riders, and were achieved by RN ten Doeschate later with a six he hit to Chavan in 20th over. Kolkata Knight Riders achieved the target in 20th over after losing 5 wickets; Shakib for his all-round performance was given man of the match award.
MATCH CEREMONY
Rahul Dravid (RR captain): "Always knew 120-125 will be a good, but we had the batting to chase it down. They started well but Shakib did well along with Narine and later the batsmen did well. Narine is a mystery bowler, difficult to play, the way he bowled the 19th over was tremendous. "
Gautam Gambhir (KKR captain): "We always knew it was a competitive score, but they
built up a partnership after an early wicket. We knew we had to go hard
up front and set up a base, the experience to play on these tracks will
help the youngsters. Not comfortable losing two in a row, hope to bounce
back soon."
Shakib Al Hasan (man of the match). "Love playing here, the early wickets
boosted me, settled my nerves down. I felt this was a pitch where I
needed to bowl well on this pitch for my time and did that. We needed a
run a ball here and then a boundary here and there and we did just that
to win the game"
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