Date – Apr 27, 2009
Result – Mumbai win by 92 runs

Mumbai Indians Innings
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. The decision proved fruitful as both openers, Jayasurya and Sachin Tendulkar gave them the flying start. Both scored at will and punished even good balls to boundary and raised half centuries. Mumbai Indians lost the first wicket in form of Tendulkar when the team score was 127. Soon Harbhajan Singh who played some lusty shots was also sent back to pavilion. After this they lost some quick wickets but the middle order chipped in with some small but useful contributions to score a total of 187/6 in alloted 20 overs.

Kolkata Knight Riders Innings
Chasing a high total of 188, Kolkata Knight Riders never got the start they wished. They lost wickets at regular interval and none of the top order batsmen except Ganguly could score runs. Some resistance to Mumbai Indian bowlers was shown by both Dada (Ganguly) and Hodge but once they both were out, the middle and lower order fell like pile of cards.From 71/3 they were all out for 95. Thus Mumbai win by 92 runs and Knight Riders lost yet another match.

Fall of wickets
Mumbai Indians
S Tendulkar (127-1, 12.2), Harbhajan (146-2, 13.5), S Jayasuriya (148-3, 14.4), A Nayar (151-4, 15.1), D Bravo (162-5, 17), S Dhawan (175-6, 18.5)

Kolkata Knight Riders
B McCullum (7-1, 2), C Gayle (16-2, 3), B Hodge (71-3, 10.2), S Ganguly (80-4, 12.1), A Ghosh (81-5, 12.3), Yashpal Singh (83-6, 13.2), LR Shukla (91-7, 14.5), A Mendis (95-8, 15.1), A Dinda (95-9, 15.2)

Man of the match – S Tendulkar

Date – 25 April 2009

Due to continuous rains at Newlands cricket ground in Cape Town, the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings was washed away. The match was called off without even a single ball being bowled and thus both teams were awarded one point each

Date – 23 April 2009

Rajasthan Royals defeated Kolkata Knight Riders in a thriller today. When the scored were tied at 150 after 20 overs, the ‘Super over’ was brought into play for the first time in the IPL. Rajasthan Royals batsmen Yusuf Pathan scored 16 runs to win the match and thus Knight Riders faced their second defeat in three matches.

In a super over, the team which scores the highest runs wins. But in case its again a tie then the one with maximum sixes in that over is declared the winner.

Batting first Kolkata Knight Riders scored 15 runs in their over, thanks to three boundaries by Chris Gayle of Kamran’s over. When Rajasthan Royals came to bat, Yusuf Pathan scored 6, 2, 6 and 4 off Ajantha Mendis to win the most closed contest of IPL-2.

Man Of The Match – Yusuf Pathan

Date – 21 April 2009

Kings XI Punjab match again interrupted by rain. This time their match was against Kolkata Knight Riders. Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field first. It was not the good start for Kings XI as Goel was out for a duck by pacer Sharma. After that Irfan Pathan was promoted up to order and he didn’t let the decision down by his performance. He scored 32 runs from 17 balls including 5 fours and 1 six. Skipper Yuvraj Singh played his natural game and hit 38 runs from 28 balls before he was  dismiss by M.Henriques. Mahela Jayawardena played a descent innings and scores 31 runs from 19 balls and put a total of 158/6 in 20 overs. In reply to this opener Chris Gayle shows no mercy to any Kings XI bowlers and with help of 4 sixes and 2 fours he was not out on 44 runs from 26 balls before rain interrupt the match. By D/L method Knight Riders were adjudged as winner as they win by 11 runs.

Man Of The Match – Chris Gayle

Playing XI –

KXIP – Karan Goel, Ravi Bopara, Yuvraj Singh (C), Kumar Sangakkara (W), Mahela Jayawardena, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Taruwar Kohli, Vikramjeet Malik, VRV Singh, Yusuf Abdulla

KKR –

Date – 19 April 2009

Pacer RP Singh four wicket haul helped Deccan Chargers to have a 8 wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders. Newly appointed captain Brendon McCullum for Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first. RP Singh restrict Knight Riders to 101 runs in 19.4 overs. He took four wickets for 22 runs in his 3.4 overs. In reply to non-competitive total Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma taste the victory in 13.1 overs. Herschelle Gibbs was not out at 43 runs and ROhit Sharma scored 36 runs in 32 balls. It was a perfect start of season for Deccan Chargers.

Man of The Match – RP Singh

Playing XI –

DC – Adam Gilchrist (C) (W), Herschelle Gibbs, VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Scott Styris, Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Fidel Edwards, Harmeet Singh

KKR – Brendon McCullum (C) (W), Chris Gayle, Sourav Ganguly, Brad Hodge, Aakash Chopra, Moises Henriques, Laxmi Shukla, Ajit Agarkar, Murali Kartik, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda