Kolkata Knight Riders continued the winning streak today by registering a second consecutive win. Kumble’s Bangalore Royal Challengers could not contain Dada’s Riders as they got to a flying start with both openers scoring half century. Manoj Tiwary and B Hodge scored 100 runs for the first wicket partnership and it looked that they both will take the team to a win but both of them got out in quick succession. Ganguly along with Pujara then took the team close to victory and in the last over they won the match by 7 wickets
Earlier a good performance by Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers helped them to contain Royal challengers for just 135 runs
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first against Bangalore Royal Challengers at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Ganguly’s decision to bowl proved extremely successful as right from the first over Bangalore Royal Challengers were struggling to bat. They lost Sreevats Goswami in the second over and KKR’s took full advantage of this by claiming wickets at regular intervals. After 14 overs the Bangalore team was struggling at 85 for five, with Jacques Kallis batting on 32 and Robin Uthappa on 8.
Teams for today’s match:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sourav Ganguly (capt), Brad Hodge, Rohan Gavaskar, Murali Kartik, Charl Langeveldt, Angelo Mathews , Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddimaan Saha, Owais Shah , Ishant Sharma, LR Shukla, Ashok Dinda.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Anil Kumble (captain), Jacques Kallis, Sreevats Goswami, Manish Pandey, Rahul Dravid, Eoin Morgan, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar , Abhimanyu Mithun, Robin Uthappa, Roelef van der Merwe, R Vinay Kumar, Dillon du Preez.
Match 4 of the DLF Indian Premier League, would bring two legends of Indian cricket face to face today at 8 pm Indian standard time.
Dada vs Jumbo
After winning the first match of IPL season 3, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ganguly will take on season 2 finalist Bangalore Royal Challengers today at Eden gardens. Kolkata Knight Riders are flying high after the first win which gave them much needed booster but Bangalore Royal Challengers captain Kumble and his boys are also willing to take the challenge. This match is expected to be a thriller and fans can expect fireworks today.
Match Details
Match Number – 4
Date:- Sunday 14 March 2010
Time – 16:00 ( 4 pm)
Venue – Eden Garden Kolkata
Team Compositions
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar
Kolkata Knight Riders
SC Ganguly (captain), CH Gayle, AD Mathews, G Vignesh, LR Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, BJ Hodge, CR Pathak
CA Pujara, OA Shah, MK Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, BB McCullum, WP Saha, AB Agarkar, VR Aaron, AB Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, CK Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla
Final eleven will be announced just before the match
In a nail bitting match today, Deccan Chargers won the final by 6 runs to lift the astonishing DLF IPL trophy. After being asked to bat first by Royal Challengers, Deccan Chargers lost Gilchrist in the very first over. This was the priced wicket for Bangalore but Gibbs on the other end was firm and his innings of 53 runs along with useful contributions from Rohit and Symonds helped them to post a total of 143 in 20 overs.
Chasing that total, Royal Challengers Bangalore started off well but in the middle orders, the pressure of final was felt and the whole team crumbled. From 79/4 they went to 107/7 and thus in the final over they needed 15 runs. But a tight line and length by Deccan Charger’s Singh prevented them to score 15 runs and thus they lost it by 6 runs.
Highlights of Match * Deccan Chargers Innings
* Deccan Chargers: 50 runs in 7.2 overs (47 balls), Extras 3
* Deccan Chargers: 100 runs in 14.5 overs (94 balls), Extras 7
* 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 43 balls (HH Gibbs 23, RG Sharma 24, Ex 3)
* HH Gibbs: 50 off 47 balls (3 x 4, 2 x 6)
* Innings Break: Deccan Chargers – 143/6 in 20.0 overs (HH Gibbs 53, RJ Harris 9)
* Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
* Royal Challengers Bangalore: 50 runs in 7.5 overs (48 balls), Extras 2
* Drinks: Royal Challengers Bangalore – 69/3 in 10.0 overs (R Dravid 4, LRPL Taylor 10)
* Royal Challengers Bangalore: 100 runs in 14.4 overs (89 balls), Extras 4
