IPL Season 5 - Match 17 KKR Vs Punjab

DLF IPL Season 5 - Match 17

Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Kings XI Punjab at Eden Gardens, Kolkata

KKR won the toss and elected to field.  Gilchrist fell early for 5 runs and hero of the previous match against Pune Warriors Shaun Marsh was foxed by an excellent delivery from Sunil Narine.  Manvinder Singh and David Hussey steadied the innings and took the score to 73 when Manvider got out.  Hussey got out soon after that and there was no significant contribution from the other batsmen.  But Chawla blasted 13 off 8 deliveries and remained unbeaten.  Harmeet Singh took a leaf out of his book scoring 14 off 6 deliveries.  These two innings proved to be very useful and enabled KXIP post a challenging target of 135 on this turning track.  Equally important was Bhargav Bhatt's 6.  Sunil Narine was the pick of the bowlers for KKR capturing 5/19 off 4 overs and Rajat Bhatia bowled a tight line capturing 2/14 from 4 overs.

KKR had a shocking start losing Kallis for 1 run.  Gambhir, Tiwary and Bisla contributed significantly taking the score to 4/80 in the 13th over.  Shakib Al Hasan's failure and Yousuf Pathan's careless batting lead to a batting collapse and KKR soon struggled at 6/88.  Debrata Das played a fighting innings remaining unbeaten on 35 off 23 delivers.  But there was not enough support at the other end and KKR lost the match by just 2 runs.  Chawla captured 3/18 and Bhargav Bhatt took 2/24, both of them successfully finishing their full quota of overs.