Match – 25th IPL 2014 – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Mon May 5
Time – 16:00 local | 10:30 GMT
Venue – Sardar Patel Stadium Motera, Ahmedabad
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 10 runs
Man of the match – Pravin Tambe

In a stunning display of bowling, Rajasthan Royals clinched the match by 10 runs when till the 15th over, it looked that Kolkata will comfortably win today’s match.

Tambe’s hat-trick and three wickets in a an over by Watson helped Royals win the match from a situation where they once looked completely out. KKR needed 171 to win and they got off to a flying start with both openers Robin Uthappa 65 off 52 balls and Captain Gambhir 54 of 34 balls adding 121 run for the first wicket stand. But then in the 15th over, Shane Watson came in to the attack and got three wickets to reduce KKR to 122/3. As if these blows were not to severe for KKR, Tambe got a hat-trick and reduced KKR to 123/6 and therefore losing the match by 10 runs.

Earlier Kolkata won the toss and elected to field. Rajasthan Royals got off to a good start with openers Ajinkya Rahane and Karun Nair adding 52 runs in 6.3 overs before Rahane was run out. Sanju Samson and Karun Nair then took the score past 100 and some good hitting by Shane Watson and Stuart Binny helped Royals post a decent total of 170/6 in 20 overs. All the top order batsmen got starts and contributed well towards the team total.

Match – 25th IPL 2014 – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard