Match 47 IPL 2013 –Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals
Date – Fri May 3
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Today in the 47th match of IPL 2013, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens. KKR who are the defending champions are reeling at 7th position in the points table and need to win almost every match from now on to make it to the play offs. The problematic areas for KKR has been the batting line up. Earlier Gambhir showed some form but lack of support from others have added so much pressure on the young captain that he also is falling apart. Big names like Brendon McCullum, Jacques Kallis and Eoin Morgan need to find their form soon other wise the defending champions will be facing exit in the first round.

On the other hand Rajasthan Royals are placed at third number in points table and will be looking to cement their place in play offs with a win today. With 6 wins out of 9 matches played so far, the team has clicked as a whole so far. The main reason for Royals good performance so far has been the ability of players to shoulder responsibility. With the likes of Rahul Dravid, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny and Brad Hodge, the team’s batting looks formidable.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team IPL 2013
Gautam Gambhir (c), Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla(wk), Debabrata Das, Iqbal Abdulla, Yusuf Pathan, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohammad Shami, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Brad Haddin, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Brendon McCullum, Ryan McLaren’ Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, James Pattinson, Sachithra Senanayake, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate

Rajasthan Royals Team IPL 2013
Rahul Dravid (c), Stuart Binny, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, Shreevats Goswami, Harmeet Singh, Ashok Menaria, Ajinkya Rahane, Sachin Baby, Sanju Samson, Rahul Shukla, Amit Singh, S Sreesanth, Siddharth Trivedi, Dishant Yagnik, Pravin Tambe , Samuel Badree, Kevon Cooper, Fidel Edwards, James Faulkner, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Kusal Janith Perera, Owais Shah, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson

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Match 44 IPL 2013 – Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Wed May 1
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – International Cricket Stadium, Raipur
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to bat
Result – Delhi Daredevils won by 7 wickets

Today in the 44th match of IPL 2013, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first. Captain Gautam Gambhir got run out on the second ball of the innings when the team score was just 4. Man in form for Kolkata Manvinder Bisla was the next to go as he was bowled by Yadav in the third over. With 16/2 in 2.2 overs, KKR needed a partnership and Yusuf Pathan, Eoin Morgan and Jacques Kallis got some starts but failed to convert them into a big score. With 50/5 in 8.3 overs, KKR looked in dire circumstances but some good batting display by the lower middle order helped them post 136/7 in 20 overs.

Chasing 137 to win, Virender Sehwag and captain Mahela Jayawardene added 23 runs in 3.4 overs before Sehwag got out after scoring 17 off 15 balls. Soon captain Mahela Jayawardene also got out giving some hope to KKR. But Unmukt Chand and David Warner then controlled the situation with a 95 run stand. Unmukt Chand scored 37 in 39 balls before getting out. But the damage was done as David Warner hit 66 in 42 balls which included 6 fours and 3 sixes to take his team to a superb 7 wicket win.

Match 44 IPL 2013 – Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

Match 44 IPL 2013 –Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Wed May 1
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – International Cricket Stadium, Raipur

Today in the 44th match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Delhi Daredevils will take on Kolkata Knight Riders at International Cricket Stadium, Raipur. Both these teams are in the bottom four at the points table as Delhi have won just 2 out of 9 where as Kolkata have won 3 out of 9 matches played so far. Both these teams need to win atleast 6 of their remaining matches to qualify for the play-off’s.

Delhi Daredevils who have the most explosive batsmen in world cricket, Virender Sehwag and David Warner need a joint team effort in remaining matches other wise they will be thrown out of the competition.

Defending champions Kolkata who also rely on their batting department needs to get their act together otherwise the defending champions will be shown the door even before the playoff’s. Though Gautam Gambhir, Manvinder Bisla and Eoin Morgan has played some good innings but lack of consistency from them and other team members have cost

Delhi Daredevils Team IPL 2013
Ajit Agarkar, Manpreet Juneja, Varun Aaron, Unmukt Chand, Kedar Jadhav, Siddarth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem, Yogesh Nagar, Sujit Nayak, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Naman Ojha(wk), Irfan Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Arisht Singhvi, Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav, CM Gautam, Royston Dias , Gulam Bodi, Johan Botha, Mahela Jayawardene(c), Jeevan Mendis, Kevin Pietersen, Andre Russell, Jesse Ryder, Roelof Van Der Merwe, David Warner, Morne Morkel

Kolkata Knight Riders Team IPL 2013
Gautam Gambhir (c), Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla(wk), Debabrata Das, Iqbal Abdulla, Yusuf Pathan, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohammad Shami, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Brad Haddin, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Brendon McCullum, Ryan McLaren’ Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, James Pattinson, Sachithra Senanayake, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate

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Match 38 IPL 2013 –Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Sun Apr 28
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Chennai Super Kings won by 14 runs

Today in the 38th match of IPL 2013, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and invited Chennai to bat first. Chennai opened with Wriddhiman Saha and Michael Hussey and the duo gave them a perfect start as they added 103 in 10 overs for the first wicket partnership. Saha got out after scoring 39 off 23 balls which included 4 fours and 2 sixes. But Michael Hussey continued the onslaught and was joined by Suresh Raina who smashed 44 in 25 balls (4×4,1×6). Michael Hussey scored 95 in just 59 balls which included 11 fours and 2 sixes and thus helped CSK post a good total of 200/3 in 20 overs.

Chasing 201 to win, Manvinder Bisla and Gautam Gambhir opened the innings for Kolkata Knight Riders. Gambhir fell after scoring just 14 but Bisla continued from where he left in the last match. KKR were hoping a good innings from Brendon McCullum but he failed as he got out after scoring just 6. J Kallis got a start and scored 19 before getting out leaving KKR at 99/3 in 12.2 overs. KKR needed another 102 off 7.4 overs and all hopes were on the duo of Bisla and Eoin Morgan. The duo played some excellent shots to take their team towards the winning target. 22 runs came of the 18th over and the game was wide open for both teams. Needing 29 to win from last 2 overs, Manvinder Bisla got run out bringing Chennai back in the game. Kolkata needed 19 to win from last over and it proved too much for them and a brilliant innings by M Bisla went in vain as they lost the match by 14 runs.

Match 38 IPL 2013 – Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

Match 38 IPL 2013 –Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Sun Apr 28
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Today in the match number 38 of IPL Season 6, defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Chennai Super Kings. CSK who have registered 6 wins ou of 8 matches sit at second place in th points table where as KKR have won just 3 out of 8 matches and thus need to get their act together.

Chennai who rely heavily on their batting line up have won four matches in a row and would like to keep the momentum going. On the other hand KKR who defeated Kings XI Punjab in their last encounter would be hoping to get back to winning ways as soon as possible.

Both team’s strength is batting, Chennai Super Kings rely on Michael Hussey, MS Dhoni, S Raina and Ravindra Jadeja out of which Hussey and Dhoni are showing good form so far On the other hand, Kolkata’s lone warrior has been captain Gambhir. Manvinder Bisla too showed his form in the last match but whether he can bring it into this match is yet to be seen.

The bottom line is that today’s match is expected to be a cracker as hard hitters from both sides will be looking to pile up a huge total on board.

Chennai Super Kings Team IPL 2013
MS Dhoni (c)(wk), Anirudha Srikkanth, B Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramaniam Badrinath, Imtiaz Ahmed, Ronit More, Suresh Raina, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Wriddhiman Saha, Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Murali Vijay, R Karthikeyan, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati,Dwayne Bravo, Francois Du Plessis, Akila Dananjaya, Ben Laughlin, Ben Hilfenhaus, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Nuwan Kulasekara, Albie Morkel, Dirk Nannes, Christopher Morris

Kolkata Knight Riders Team IPL 2013
Gautam Gambhir (c), Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla(wk), Debabrata Das, Iqbal Abdulla, Yusuf Pathan, Pradeep Sangwan, Mohammad Shami, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Brad Haddin, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Brendon McCullum, Ryan McLaren’ Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, James Pattinson, Sachithra Senanayake, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate

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