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Best performances - Batsmen

TM Head
TM Head
75(47) 3x4 - 5x6
Control %68%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 16 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
4 0 2 12 23 10 15 9
SP Narine
SP Narine
54(17) 6x4 - 4x6
Control %78%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 28 runs
  • 2x4 - 3x6
4 4 0 0 5 7 28 6

Best performances - Bowlers

UT Yadav
UT Yadav
O4
M0
R36
W3
Eco9
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W1W
P Negi
P Negi
O3.1
M0
R21
W2
Eco6.63
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Kolkata Knight Riders , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.30, Interval 17.30-17.50, Second Session 17.50-19.20

Match days

07 May 2017 - day/night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0

Commentator: Varun Shetty

We didn't get to see Kohli's response, folks. So that is the end of our coverage for this game. Gujarat Lions have elected to bowl against Kings XI in the other game, and my colleague Deivarayan Muthu will shepherd you through it. Thanks for joining in. Have a good night.

Narine: I'm surprised too. Lynn just said keep your eyes on the ball, keep focussed and swing at it. I try to keep it simple. I'll hopefully get used to the expectations but it really was a team effort. Umesh's wickets early especially were key and I'm thankful for it.

Sunil Narine is the Man of the Match.

Gautam Gambhir: I haven't seen such a partnership. Unbelievable effort. You don't expect people to get 105 in 6 overs. I reckon Lynn is the hardest hitter of the ball in international cricket. He showed how mentally tough he is to come back from an injury and bat like this. It was a team decision to send Narine up the order because he would hardly bat at No. 6 or No. 7. We also though it would make it easy on Lynn to take his time at the other end on his return.

Vinod Rajpal: "Big loss for the advertisers too for todays match ending half hour early "

West Indian: "Narine certainly has made a strong case for MVP this season...he has really done Russell's job to perfection."

7.34pm So we finish on schedule despite the rain. What a stunning performance from Kolkata. Some way to get into the top two.
Virat Kohli said at the toss that he would've batted first anyway. He expected this pitch to be sluggish. And it was - but only as long as RCB were batting. It might have been rain that completely switched things after their innings. Or is that unfair on the unbelievable batting of Sunil Narine? And Chris Lynn? Perhaps. It didn't look particularly easy after they had got out.

15.1
2
Negi to Pandey, 2 runs, there you go. Gets behind this good length ball at off stump, pokes it through the gap at covers and completes a crushing victory for KKR on what is otherwise his home ground

END OF OVER:
15 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | KKR: 157/4 (2 runs required from 30 balls, RR: 10.46, RRR: 0.40)

  • Yusuf Pathan0 (5b)
  • Manish Pandey2 (2b)
  • Yuzvendra Chahal4-0-39-1
  • Pawan Negi3-0-19-2
14.6
0
Chahal to Pathan, no run, and once more. Good length, pitching outside off, he throws the sweep at it and misses as it turns away
14.6
1w
Chahal to Pathan, 1 wide, teases him outside off again, he goes for the sweep again, he misses again. But this spins past the wide marker
14.5
0
Chahal to Pathan, no run, good length at off stump, forward defence into the off side
14.4
0
Chahal to Pathan, no run, good length outside off stump, wide. There's a loud noise as Pathan pokes at this off the back and Jadhav takes it. Umpire says not out. Replays show a huge under-edge. Everyone, angry.
14.3
0
Chahal to Pathan, no run, good length outside off stump, teases him in for the slog sweep, then turns it away rapidly past his outside edge

KKRyptonite

15

No. of runs made by Virat Kohli (5), Chris Gayle (0) and AB de Villiers (10), equalling their lowest aggregate in an IPL match. KKR were the bowling team both times