Today was the 35th match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the DLF – IPL. Chasing the target of 134 Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag opened the batting for Delhi Daredevils. Making the IPL debut, Shoaib Akhtar got the price scalp of Virender Sehwag for a duck.The had the worst start and bowlers of Kolkata Knight Riders were doing excellent bowling and were not letting the Daredevils to score with ease. The score to only 2 when Virender Sehwag was out for zero score. He was followed by Gautam Gambhir (10 score), AB de Villiers (7 score), Manoj Tiwary (9 score) and Shikhar Dhawan (7 score).Akhtar just missed the hattrick but got 4 priced wickets. The score of the team was 73 for the loss of 6 wickets in 12 overs. Apart from excellent bowling by almost all the bowlers of Knight Riders, it was the brilliant fielding which assured the win despite the fact that they had such a low score. The wickets were coming for them either via direct hits for run out or by the excellent bowling. L.N. Shukla came for bowling and got 3 wickets in the 18th over and Delhi Daredevils were all out for 110 and thus Knight Riders won the match by 23 runs.

Today – Scorecard – Match 35 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils