Kolkata Knight Riders Team for Indian Premier League Season 5, 2012

Check out the players playing for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2012.
Batsmen
Gautam Gambhir (Captain)
Marchant de Lange
Eoin Morgan
Sunil Narine
Manoj Tiwary
Debabrata Das
Chirag Jani
Sanju Samson
Iresh Saxena

Bowlers
Brett Lee
James Pattinson
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Iqbal Abdulla
Pradeep Sangwan
Shami Ahmed
Sarabjit Ladda
Jaydev Unadkat

All-rounders
Jacques Kallis
Yusuf Pathan
Ryan ten Doeschate
Laxmi Shukla
Rajat Bhatia
Shakib Al Hasan

Wicketkeeper
Brendon McCullum
Brad Haddin
Manvinder Bisla

Following are the matches of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL Season 5, 2012 .

Checkout the complete Indian Premier League 2012 Schedule here

Match: 56th T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 18, 2010
Time: 8 pm
Toss: Mumbai Indians elected to bat.
Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won by 9 wickets

Mumbai Indians won the toss today and elected to bat first. Today’s match had no impact on semi finals so Mumbai Indian I had as many as six changes in the squad. Aditya Tare and Shikhar Dhawan opened the innings but could not give Mumbai a good start. Mumbai Indians were 14/2 in 2.5 overs. Then S Tiwary and J Duminy got into a good partnership and took the score to 77. Tiwary and Duminy both got out at the same score leaving Mumbai Indians struggling at 77/4 in 13.1 overs. The stand in captain D Bravo also failed and Mumbai looked in real trouble with 5 wickets down at 89 in 15.4 overs. A Rayudu and R Satish then took the score past 100 at the end they were able to post a meager total of 133/8 in 20 overs.

Chasing 134 to win, KKR got off to a superb start. Ganguly and McCullum played shots right from the first over and scored runs with ease. Both these scored 97 runs for the first wicket partnership. Mumbai Indian bowlers looked clueless against KKR batsmen today. Finally KKR were able to win today’s match by 9 wickets but still they are out of IPL 2010.

A nice end to KKR’s journey of this year’s IPL which witnessed many ups and downs throughout.

Match Notes

* Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 7.2 overs, Extras 1
* Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 16.3 overs, Extras 3
* Innings Break: Mumbai Indians – 133/8 in 20.0 overs

* Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 6.3 overs, Extras 3
* Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 13.6 overs, Extras 10
* BB McCullum: 50 off 52 balls (7 x 4)

Match 56 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians Scorecard

Match: 56th T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 18, 2010
Time: 8 pm

In a dead rubber today, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Mumbai Indians at Eden Garden in the last group match of DLF IPL 2010. The teams have already qualified for semi finals so this match is of no importance. Kolkata Knight Riders are out of DLF IPL Season 3 as Chennai Super Kings won the match against Kings XI Punjab leaving KKR on the 6th position in points table. Mumbai Indians have decided to rest captain Sachin Tendulkar today so that he is all charged up for semi finals.

Mumbai Indians Team
D Bravo (Captain), S Dhawan, J Duminy, C Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, S Jayasuriya, Z Khan, D Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, S Malinga, A Murtaza, G Napier, A Nayar, K Pollard, A Rayudu, R Sathish, K Sahabuddin, R Shukla, A Tare, S Tiwary.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team
S Ganguly (captain), C Gayle, A Mathews, G Vignesh, L Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, B Hodge, C Pathak, C Pujara, O Shah, M Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, B McCullum, W Saha, A Agarkar, V Aaron, A Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, C Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla.

Match: 53 T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 17, 2010
Toss: Rajasthan Royals elected to bat.

Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won by 8 wickets.

Rajasthan Royals out of IPL 2010

In a must win match for both teams, Rajasthan Royals won the tos and elected to bat first. Rajasthan Royals got off to a very good start with S Watson and N Ojha scoring 59 for the first wicket partnership. Once Watson was out, Rajasthan Royals lost the track and kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers never gave them any opportunity to score easy runs. Rajasthan Royals middle order collapsed badly leaving them tottering at 101/5 in 14.2 overs. Kolkata Knight Riders bowler produced a much better spell today even in the last overs to limit Rajasthan Royals to a total of !@!@#$ in 20 overs.

After restricting the Royals to a petty total, it was upto Kolkata Knight Riders batsmen to win today’s match and raise hope for semi finals. KKR opened with McCullum and Ganguly but this time they could not give a good start as McCullum was out for just 6. In the very same over, KKR got another shock as Gayle was out for a duck leaving them at 22/2 in 2.5 overs. Ganguly(75 not out) and Pujara(45 not out) then played sensibly and took the score past 100. Dada again lead from the front and scored a brilliant fifty to help Kolkata Knight Riders win by 8 wickets and thus closer to semi final spot.

This is the end of road for Rajasthan Royals in this edition of DLF IPL 2010.

How can Kolkata Knight Riders qualify for semi finals ?
1) Kings XI beat Chennai Super Kings
2) Delhi beat Deccan Chargers
3) Kolkata Knight Riders win against Mumbai by a huge margin.

Match Notes

* Rajasthan Royals: 50 runs in 6.3 overs, Extras 0
* Rajasthan Royals: 100 runs in 13.5 overs, Extras 1
* Innings Break: Rajasthan Royals – 132/9 in 20.0 overs

* Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 7.2 overs, Extras 5
* Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 12.5 overs, Extras 7
* SC Ganguly: 50 off 39 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)

Match 53 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard