14/05Result
45th match (N), Indian Premier League at Kolkata, May 14 2016
KKR won by 8 wkts (24b rem) (D/L)
Player of the Match
Yusuf Pathan
Yusuf PathanKolkata Knight Riders
14/05Result
45th match (N), Indian Premier League at Kolkata, May 14 2016
KKR won by 8 wkts (24b rem) (D/L)
Player of the Match
Yusuf Pathan
Yusuf PathanKolkata Knight Riders
3649dThe Report by Deivarayan Muthu

Supergiants dumped out in rain-hit game

A sharp bowling performance from Kolkata Knight Riders followed by Yusuf Pathan's blazing cameo ensured Rising Pune Supergiants, in their debut season, were the first team to be knocked out of th

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

YK Pathan
YK Pathan
37(18) 4x4 - 3x6
Control %60%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 10 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
4 0 0 2 0 6 10 15
GJ Bailey
GJ Bailey
33(27) 3x4 - 1x6
Control %70%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 11 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
4 4 0 0 9 2 9 5

Best performances - Bowlers

PP Chawla
PP Chawla
O4
M0
R21
W2
Eco5.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
R Ashwin
R Ashwin
O2
M0
R30
W2
Eco15
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Alagappan Muthu

END OF OVER:
5 | 9 Runs | KKR: 66/2 | RR: 13.20

  • Yusuf Pathan37 (18b)
  • Manish Pandey15 (10b)
  • Adam Zampa1-0-8-0
  • Murugan Ashwin1-0-13-0

That's all we have for you. Thank you for your company tonight. Now off to bed with you.

Yusuf Pathan is Man of the Match, "Batting has been going well, and even in crucial times, its working well so very happy. After batting like that and winning the match against RCB, I got a lot of confidence and I hope it continues. Not thinking about anything. I'm just playing freely"

"Obviously have been losing a lot of tosses. We were looking to bat first, lost the toss and that's what I've been doing for a while," Gambhir says, "Still things are going well. Still have a long way to go, hopefully in the crunch situations I can start winning it. Bowlers were very professional. We thought our fast bowlers started off really well on this wicket. Qualify spinners don't need surfaces, they can beat the batsmen in the air. [Having four men close for MS Dhoni] I have more confidence in the bowlers, always see who the bowler is not the batsman. I have a lot of trust in Piyush and Narine. Didn't think it was MS. I don't wan to jinx it [Yusuf's form]"

Presentation time So for the first time in nine years of IPL, Dhoni will not play in the playoffs. . He says, Maybe 135-140 would have been a good score. We kept losing wickets in the middle overs, so there was too much pressure on the lower order. What's important is for someone from the top order to bat through, specially on a slow wicket like this. And if we lose wickets, we can't lose wickets in clumps because the new batsman can't work the ball around easily. Getting a partnership going is important. I said it was important to play freely, even if you are going in to bowl. We can tick off one more box. We have had a lot of injuries, but we haven't had a rain-affected loss. With just nine overs, and they have 10 wickets, and the first three overs were Powerplay, it was difficult. We were on the receiving end. It's okay. Two more to go.

12.10 am Well, it took a lot longer than we thought but the expected result has panned out after Knight Riders' spinners had done their bit in the first innings. Piyush Chawla and Sunil Narine gave away only 31 runs in 46 balls. That's fantastic wicket, not to mention the two wickets Chawla took.

Yusuf walks off the field with his bat tucked under his elbow, gets a pat on his head from younger brother and Supergiants allrounder Irfan Pathan

4.6
1b
Zampa to Pathan, 1 bye, swept away, that's the single they wanted, its a bye. Yusuf leaps up after completing the run and punches his first. Well, he should. Knight Riders move up to 14 points and second place with an eight-wicket drubbing of Rising Pune Supergiants
4.5
0
Zampa to Pathan, no run, tossed up on middle and leg, Yusuf presents the perfect forward defence
4.4
1
Zampa to Pandey, 1 run, flighted on middle and leg, Pandey doesn't read the googly, just about manages to get it off to short fine leg
4.3
1
Zampa to Pathan, 1 run, stays back to a good length ball on off stump and steers it to point
4.2
1
Zampa to Pandey, 1 run, goes back and punches a flatter delivery to long-off
4.2
5w
Zampa to Pandey, 5 wides, ah, unfortunate. Zampa slides a leggie down leg, Dhoni cannot move across in time. Four byes brings up the fifty stand

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Striking it hard

165.62

Yusuf Pathan's strike rate in this IPL - second-best among batsmen who faced 100 or more balls. His SR while chasing is 174.15.

Most ducks

12

No. of ducks for Gambhir in IPL - joint-most by a player. Harbhajan Singh also has 12 ducks.

Wicket-taker

6

No. of wickets Ashwin has taken in his team's first over in T20s in 2016 - most by a bowler. He got KKR's both openers in the first over today.

Three-down in ten

0

No. of times RPS lost more than 2 wickets in first 10 overs of the innings, before this. They were 70 for 3 after tenth over in this match.

Can RPS defend?

0-6

Win-loss record for RPS when they batted first. They won the toss and elected to bat first in this match.