END OF OVER:
18 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | GL: 164/5 | RR: 9.11

  • Ravindra Jadeja9 (9b)
  • Dwayne Bravo0 (0b)
  • Piyush Chawla4-0-30-1
  • Brad Hogg2-0-19-1

Time for the presentation:

Raina: Beating Calcutta in Calcutta is always crucial, they are a very good team. We got early wickets and that's what helped us. When you have too many options (in bowling) sometimes you get confused. When Yusuf was batting I thought I'd give the ball to Tambe and then Jadeja, he's so experienced. Bravo was the other option. Then DK and PK always bowl well after the 15th over. Bravo is a great death bowler. When you are playing in Calcutta and against good batsmen it's always difficult to bowl to them. When Finch is in the middle order, you have the lincense to go in the middle overs. That's why I recommended that he should bat there, it helps batsmen like me, Jadeja and others.

Man of the Match PK: I'm very happy that we bowled as per plan today. Raina has always said that I need to bowl two in the start and two later, he gives a lot of confidence so maybe I'm bowling well because of that.

That's all from us today, then. Lions made sure that Sunrisers were table-toppers only for a few hours and Lions are on top again, with 14 points. But Sunrisers have two games in hand. Let's see how the coming matches shapes up the positions. Stay tuned for the rest of the matches, this is Vishal Dikshit logging off, ta ta!

11.21pm What a clinical performance from Lions today. They were given a solid start by their bowlers but the momentum slipped away with the Shakib-Yusuf partnership. It was down to the batsmen and almost all of them chipped in. The best of the lot was DK. He placed the ball very well, showed great timing and used the angles of his bat cleverly to pick boundaries

Andre Russell gets the purple cap and a tight hug from DJ Bravo. "That's how it goes sometimes, we put in the effort but it was their day. It was a 180 wicket and next time our approach will be different.

Gambhir: I think the way Shakib and Yusuf batted, they got us to a total we could bowl at. But we didn't start well, we could have batted more cleverly. Credit goes to Praveen and Dhawal, you need to pick wickets early and they did that. We started with fast bowlers but Brendon and Dwayne have a go at everything. We tried to take the pace off but they go after everything. Dinesh batted really well for them.

Abhinav: "i dont know if u guys would Post it right now, but DK looks like dhanush from the movie maryan."

Manoj: "DK is performing well only for those teams which pays him less. "

Niroop: "This is one of the best knocks by Jadeja. Deserves some mangoes today"

Tathagat: "All the hard work done by Finch to up the NRR. Jadeja enters and presses "Ctrl+Z""

17.6
6
Chawla to Jadeja, SIX, too full and Jadeja seals it with a slog-sweep for six to the wide long-on boundary!

Yogi : "Jaddu is trying his best to make the game interesting and turn the discussion away from mangoes.. "

17.5
0
Chawla to Jadeja, no run, outside off now and he helps it to point now
17.4
W
Chawla to Jadeja, OUT, oh my, a run out when the scores are level. Finch is furious! Jadeja leaned into the ball to help it to midwicket and took a couple of steps before stopping and Finch wanted a quick single that didn't even exist. Manish Pandey collects the ball cleanly and runs to the stumps to take the bails off

AJ Finch run out 29 (17m 10b 3x4 2x6) SR: 290

17.3
0
Chawla to Jadeja, no run, stays back and defends the straighter ball back

Mohak: "And this wasn't the last over! "

Naveen: "Surely this is the last over?"

17.2
2
Chawla to Jadeja, 2 runs, turning in again, this time Jadeja clips it off his pads to deep square leg and brings the scores level with two quick runs

Tejas Shah: "Deliberate effort by GL to improve their NRR..win + improvement in NRR...mission accomplished!!"

17.1
0
Chawla to Jadeja, no run, the ball turns into him, cramps him for room and Jadeja can't put it away

END OF OVER:
17 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | GL: 156/4 (3 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 9.17, RRR: 1.00)

  • Ravindra Jadeja1 (3b)
  • Aaron Finch29 (10b)
  • Brad Hogg2-0-19-1
  • Piyush Chawla3-0-22-1

Morpheuz: "Karthik pushing for national selection and Utthapa proving why he isn't reliable."

16.6
1
Hogg to Jadeja, 1 run, tossed up almost in the block hole, Jads swings and gets an edge to leg for one
16.5
0
Hogg to Jadeja, no run, turns away a bit from off, Jadeja stays back and defends to leg
16.4
0
Hogg to Jadeja, no run, presses forward and takes the ball on the pad outside leg

A slip for Jadeja

Long time ago

2008

Last time Praveen Kumar got Man of the Match award in IPL, in his sixth game. MoM in this match is just his second in IPL in 108 games.

Chasing strength

6-1

GL's win-loss record while chasing in this IPL. Only time they failed to chase a target was against KXIP in Rajkot. When batting first, they have a 1-3 record.

Top middle-order batsman

3

No. of half-centuries for Dinesh Karthik in this IPL - most by a player batting at No.4 or lower. Maxwell, Nair and Pathan have scored 2 fifties each.

Way ahead

89

Runs scored by GL in the first ten overs in this match. KKR in the first innings had made only 57 runs.

Some Start

32

Total runs added by Smith and McCullum in the last 3 matches as a pair. In this match they added scored 42.

Record stand

130*

Previous record for the highest 5th-wicket stand in IPL by O Shah-Mathews for KKR v DC, 2010 and Miller-Sathish for KXIP v RCB 2013. Yusuf-Shakib added 134* today.

Innings changing stand

88

Previous highest 5th wkt p'ship in IPL after the loss of 4th wkt at a score of 25 or less - Hodge & Jadeja for KTK v PWI, 2011. Pathan-Shakib have added 100+ runs.

In good touch

20

No. of inns Yusuf Pathan took to score his previous 2 IPL fifties before scoring 2 half-centuries in 3 innings in this IPL.

Back to the rhythm

24

Score at which KKR lost their 4th wicket. Yusuf Pathan and Shakib have added more than 60 runs for the fifth wicket.

Worst start

0

No. of times KKR lost more than 2 wickets in the Powerplays in this IPL, before this match. They lost three wickets inside 4 overs in this match.

Top-openers

2

No. of teams that have used just one opening pair in this IPL - KKR (Uthappa-Gambhir) and SRH (Warner-Dhawan).