cannot get it away, the legbreaks, those harmless looking legbreaks from a medium-pacer have done it for Punjab, tries to swing one of them over midwicket, cannot time it at all, it rolls away to deep midwicket
Kings XI vs KKR, 17th match at Kolkata, IPL, Apr 15 2012 - Match Result
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Narine is the Man of the Match for his 5 for 19. Narine: "I look just to contain and hit the right areas. Pretty much everyone is on BBM [when asked whether he is in touch with his West Indies team-mates]."
Gautam Gambhir: "We left it till the end. You need to play intelligent cricket. We should have finished it off when we needed 13 off 12. We should have played better as a batting unit."
Adam Gilchrist: "The guys fought well with the bat, some exceptional spin bowling from Narine and Co. Always felt Harmeet had it in him."
The KKR dugout is looking totally stunned. They were 73 for 2 at one stage. But you never know what you get with KKR.
Chawla and Bhatt brought Punjab back and Harmeet defended nine runs nervelessly off the final over. Not to forget PK's excellent over, the 19th, which went for just four
Charindra: "Gotta feel for the Kolkata fans. KKR have the most passionate and most loyal support in the world, and they keep letting the fans down year after year. They got rid of Ganguly, and now his team is leading the table."
Achuthan: "Slow and Steady win the race,only if you are a tortoise,not a Knight Rider."
James: "Very glad KKR lost, perhaps they will now drop YK Pathan who has contributed nothing this IPL. As far as this match goes there was one MAJOR failing, Bisla & Tiwary to push on after slowish starts, and Hasan and Pathan throwing their wickets away. A shame for the home crowd!"
Bhatia gets a taste of how it feels to generate some power off slower ones, gets it towards long off, another pick-up fluffed, but they are satisfied with one this time
down the track, hits it down the ground, long on runs in, stops the ball, seems to have kept them to one, but he cannot pick it up cleanly, they hesitate and eventually get across for the second
he's bowled Tendo., the legbreak appears innocuous, but it has taken out Tendo, who looked to swipe it through midwicket from outside off stump, an inside edge results, also finds its way on to the stumps
cannot get this one away for more than a single down to long off
legbreak arrives on a length on leg stump, Tendo has already swung around to swing it behind square leg, but somehow misses it
Nine off the final over from Harmeet
excellent stuff from PK, for the third time in succession, he finds the blockhole, this time bang on middle, not much Tendo can do with that, just manages to jam down his bat on it
another one around the blockhole just outside off, dug out to short mid on
A shortish mid on in place, in addition to long on
makes room, PK finds the blockhole around off, Tendo reaches out and squeezes it to point
Ash Habib: "Well Das just made me eat my words. I guess KKR needs all the batsman they can cramp in the playing 11!"
swings hard and gets the full ball through midwicket
down to long on again for one
mistimes a swing off a length ball down to long on along the ground
and again, this time he tries to pull a short of a length ball, misses as it nips in a shade, the ball goes over the stumps, Gilchrist cannot collect it standing up, and KKR inch closer
tries to lift a length ball down the ground, is beaten by the bounce, which is why the ball also goes over off stump
Paul Hart: "Didn't an early comment say what's the point of having the extra KKR batsman."
worked through midwicket
steered to point, Tendo wants the single, has to dive back into his ground as the throw comes in
Das doing it for KKR, fetches the full ball from outside off and smokes it high to the left of long on
hits a low full toss quite well in the end, Marsh dives to his left at long on as the ball travels quickly down the ground
down to long off for a single
consecutive fours, full delivery clipped through midwicket with the angle, and just beats deep midwicket and long in running across to the rope
Eden Gardens, Kolkata | |
Toss | Kolkata Knight Riders, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2012 |
Player Of The Match | |
Hours of play (local time) | 16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.25, Interval 17.25-17.45, Second Session 17.45-19.10 |
Match days | 15 April 2012 - daynight (20-over match) |
Umpires | |
TV Umpire | |
Reserve Umpire | |
Match Referee | |
Points | Kings XI Punjab 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0 |
Over 20 • KKR 132/7