Kolkata seal season's maiden win
L Balaji bowled Kolkata Knight Riders to their first victory in IPL 2012 against a strong Royal Challengers Bangalore batting line-up
10/04Result
10th match (D/N), Indian Premier League at Bengaluru, Apr 10 2012
Player of the Match
10/04Result
10th match (D/N), Indian Premier League at Bengaluru, Apr 10 2012
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
G Gambhir
64(39) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %76%
- Productive Shot
- cut shot on back foot
- 20 runs
- 2x4 - 0x6
Match Details
Toss
Royal Challengers Bangalore , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.25, Interval 17.25-17.45, Second Session 17.45-19.10
Match days
10 April 2012 - day/night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0
Scorecard Summary
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS 165/8 (20 OVERS)
- Manvinder Bisla46 (29)
- Gautam Gambhir64 (39)
- Zaheer Khan2/31 (4)
- Vinay Kumar2/18 (4)
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE 123/9 (20 OVERS)
- Vinay Kumar25 (26)
- Daniel Vettori20 (12)
- Lakshmipathy Balaji4/18 (4)
- Jacques Kallis2/7 (2)
Scorer: Binoy George | Commentator: Abhishek Purohit
END OF OVER:20 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | RCB: 123/9 (43 runs required, RR: 6.15)
- Zaheer Khan11 (7b)
- Shakib Al Hasan3-0-21-2
- Ryan ten Doeschate3-0-24-1
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Balaji is the Man of the Match for his four wickets. Balaji: "In t20, bowlers get into the other end, today I got my momentum going. Jacques and Lee gave us the start though. It gives a lot of pleasure when you get a top player like de Villiers."
Gautam Gambhir: "It was important for us to get on the board, we have the quality in the team, if we play to our potential, then we will be hard to beat. Balaji's bowling today was the best I have seen in a Twenty20 competition."
Daniel Vettori: "It was a spectacular performance from us with the ball. That opening spell from Lee, Kallis and Balaji set us back and we could not recover. It was exceptional bowling from them. We continually lost wickets."
RCB managed to convert 125 for 1 to 165 for 8 when KKR batted but Kallis got the big wicket of Gayle and Balaji's four strikes put RCB out of the game.
19.6
W
Shakib Al Hasan to Vinay Kumar, OUT, second wicket for Shakib to finish the game, Vinay charged out for the loft over long on, but found Shukla there, fine catch taken just inside the rope
R Vinay Kumar c Shukla b Shakib Al Hasan 25 (34m 26b 0x4 1x6) SR: 96.15
19.5
1
Shakib Al Hasan to Khan, 1 run, belted down to long on
19.4
1
Shakib Al Hasan to Vinay Kumar, 1 run, reverse-lapped to short third man
19.3
1
Shakib Al Hasan to Khan, 1 run, tries to pull, but it loops in the air off the top-edge and falls in front of deep midwicket
The previous run has been declared short
19.2
1
Shakib Al Hasan to Khan, 1 run, another heave down to deep midwicket
19.1
1
Shakib Al Hasan to Vinay Kumar, 1 run, swung down to long on
Match Coverage
All Match NewsKolkata seal season's maiden win
L Balaji bowled Kolkata Knight Riders to their first victory in IPL 2012 against a strong Royal Challengers Bangalore batting line-up
