The dream end of Kolkata Knight Riders ended today when Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings defeated Ganguly’s Kolkata Knight Riders by 55 runs.

Batting first, CSK got to a pretty slow start but managed to score 164/3 in 20 overs thank to a superb knock by Dhoni ( 66 runs of just 33 balls).

The current form of Kolkata Knight Riders should have made it very easy to chase that target but Dhoni’s CSK bowlers were in no mood to give it away so easy. Kolkata Knight Riders lost the first wicket in the very first over and from there on the wickets started to fell like a pile of cards. Not even a single batsmen could take the charge and save the match for KKR. Kolkata Knight Riders were struggling at 69/6 in the 11th over and it looked all over for them. They crossed 100 run mark in 17th over but had lost 9 wickets to get that. Kolkata Knight Riders dream run on the path of victory was atlast halted by Chennai Super Kings.

Chennai Super Kings bundled Kolkata Knight Riders for just 109/10.

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In the battle between icons, Ganguly’s Knight Riders never gave Chennai Super Kings respite with some tight bowling. Today at Eden’s, CSK won the toss and elected to bat first. M Vijay and Hayden started the CSK innings but Hayden was bold by Ishant Sharma and CSK lost the first wicket in 4th over. Knight Riders never allowed Chennai Super Kings to score freely in initial overs. But the onslaught by Dhoni helped CSK score a decent score of 164/3 in 20 overs

Dhoni and Badrinath steaded the innings though initially at a much slower run rate but once they crossed the 15th over, both batsmen started scoring freely. Dhoni was at his blistering best and scored 66 runs in just 33 balls which included 6 fours and 3 sixes.

Match- 8 IPL 3 -2010 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

Today will be a match no one would like to miss. So tune in to SET MAX or Youtube or your very own iplcricketlive.com to see how two icons fight it out in a match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders.

Today at Eden’s, two of India’s most iconic captains will take on each other in DLF – Indian Premier League match – 8. Ganguly’s Knight Riders are on cloud nine with two wins of the two matches played so far where as Dhoni’s boys need to pull up the socks as they have lost the first match and are reeling under pressure due to some key members missing from the team. With the kind of form KKR’s have shown so far, it is a tough call for Chennai Super Kings but everyone knows what Dhoni is made off. So get set for high performing action today.

Match Details
Match Number – 8
Date:- 16 March 2010 Tuesday
Time – 20:00 ( 8 pm)
Venue – Eden – Kolkata

Team compositions
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

Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni (captain/wicket keeper), PA Patel, KB Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, ML Hayden, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, M Vijay, T Thushara, JA Morkel, JDP Oram, NLTC Perera, JM Kemp, HK Badani, R Ashwin, L Balaji, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, SB Jakati, M Muralidaran, M Ntini, S Tyagi, Joginder Sharma

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

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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.

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