09/05Result
44th match (D/N), Pepsi Indian Premier League at Kolkata, May 9 2015
KKR won by 1 wkt (1b rem)
Player of the Match
Andre Russell
Andre RussellKolkata Knight Riders
09/05Result
44th match (D/N), Pepsi Indian Premier League at Kolkata, May 9 2015
KKR won by 1 wkt (1b rem)
Player of the Match
Andre Russell
Andre RussellKolkata Knight Riders
3124dThe Report by Abhishek Purohit

Knight Riders go top with one-wicket win

Kolkata Knight went to the top of the points table with the first one-wicket win in IPL history, off the penultimate ball against Kings XI Punjab

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

AD Russell
AD Russell
51(21) 5x4 - 4x6
Control %65%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog shot
  • 12 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
8 4 7 4 2 2 13 11
GJ Maxwell
GJ Maxwell
43(22) 4x4 - 3x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 12 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
9 4 7 0 4 0 11 8

Best performances - Bowlers

SP Narine
SP Narine
O4
M0
R19
W4
Eco4.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
Gurkeerat Singh
Gurkeerat Singh
O3
M0
R17
W2
Eco5.66
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: George Binoy

7.35 pm I've got to run and jump on the Huddle I'm afraid so that's it for me today. Thank you for all your emails. Narine for Man of the Match? Or Russell? I'd give it to Narine. The other game is about to begin in Raipur. Hope it's as exciting as this one was. Cheers.

19.5
1lb
Anureet Singh to Narine, 1 leg bye, a leg bye to win it for KKR! Narine misses the flick and the ball goes to square leg off the pad. Narine sets off immediately, the fielder aims for the stumps at the bowler's end but he misses! KKR go top of the table, what a manic finish

Narine is the last man. He did it with the ball and now he needs to score one run off two balls.

19.4
W
Anureet Singh to Chawla, OUT, caught down the leg side! That would have been wide had Chawla let it go but he tries to glance the short of a length ball and Saha does splendidly to move to his right to catch it. That was so wide outside leg, and he gloved it.

PP Chawla c †Saha b Anureet Singh 18 (18m 11b 2x4 1x6) SR: 163.63

19.3
6
Anureet Singh to Chawla, SIX, and that's why he did not run! Chawla hammers the full ball far over deep midwicket to tie the scores! He was on the front foot for the full ball and swung hard, superb strike under pressure
19.2
W
Anureet Singh to Chawla, OUT, it's all happening at Eden Gardens! Anureet bowls it in the blockhole outside leg to counter Chawla's movement outside leg stump. He inside edges the ball on to the pad and the ball rolls towards the bowler. Hogg charges for the single but Chawla sends him back. Anureet rushes to the ball, picks up, turns around and hits the stumps with Hogg well short

GB Hogg run out 5 (11m 5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 100

19.1
1
Anureet Singh to Hogg, 1 run, Hogg makes room by moving outside leg and hits straight, the bowler gets a hand on the ball but can't save the single

Aditya Talesara: "In a match, where everyone were worried for a fifth bowler for KXIP, they have done quite well 22-3 in four."

Anureet has the tough job of bowling the last over.

END OF OVER:
19 | 5 Runs | KKR: 176/7 (8 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 9.26, RRR: 8.00)

  • Brad Hogg4 (4b)
  • Piyush Chawla12 (8b)
  • Sandeep Sharma4-0-35-0
  • Beuran Hendricks4-0-35-1

KKR need eight off the last over. Super over anyone?

18.6
1
Sandeep Sharma to Hogg, 1 run, a low full toss on off stump, makes room and slices the ball in front of point

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Awesome Andre

197.93

Andre Russell's strike rate in this IPL - the highest for any batsman with at least 250 runs in a season.

Axar's worst

24

Runs conceded Axar Patel in his third over - his most expensive in the IPL. He had conceded only 4 runs from his first-two.

Brakes applied

19/2

KKR's score in overs No. 6 to 10; they had scored 55 for the loss one wicket in the first five.

Rapid fifty!

29

Balls taken by KKR for their first-fifty runs; this was the second-fastest fifty by them at the Eden Gardens.

Favourite opposition

20

Wickets taken by Sunil Narine against KXIP - the most he has taken against any team in T20s.

Expensive at the Eden

21

Runs off Brad Hogg's third over (including a bye) - equal the highest scored off an over from any KKR spinner at the Eden Gardens.

Narine's at No.2

193

Wickets Sunil Narine has taken in T20s - the second-most by any player from West Indies. Only Dwayne Bravo (234 wkts) is ahead of him.

Narine in Powerplays

4.66

Sunil Narine's eco in 6 overs in the Powerplays; only Marchant de Lange, eco of 2.5, has done better this season.

Four on the trot

4-0

KKR's record against KXIP in the last-four games between the teams. The last they lost to KXIP was in 2014, in Abu Dhabi.