2353dThe Report by Devashish Fuloria

Sorry Warriors slide to their 11th defeat

Pune Warriors' batting fizzled out without even causing a flutter, the team falling to their 11th defeat this year, this time against Kolkata Knight Riders

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

G Gambhir
50(44) 6x4 - 0x6
Control %69%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 26 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
0 10 13 6 3 3 5 10
AD Mathews
AD Mathews
40(28) 0x4 - 4x6
Control %89%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 13 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
1 1 6 1 5 10 12 4

Best performances - Bowlers

L Balaji
O3.3
M0
R19
W3
Eco5.42
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
B Kumar
B Kumar
O4
M0
R25
W3
Eco6.25
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: Gopi Rangarajan | Commentator: Suneer Chowdhary

And with that we come to the end of an exciting, if slightly controversial day of IPL cricket. Both matches got a little one-sided in the end but the talk of the games were the Gilchrist and Kallis run-out incidents, two senior pros getting very worked up in the middle. That's it from me, Suneer Chowdhary, but will be back tomorrow for the Delhi v Bangalore encounter. Till then ciao and have a good day ahead!

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Presentation:

Finch: We were very disappointing, 150 was too much on that wicket, did not bat too intelligently. We knew Narine was going to bat a few in the end and we had to cash in the first six.

Gambhir, also the man of the match tonight: Professional cricket from everyone, played smart cricket and lot of credit to Tendo for the way he batted. The bowlers bowled well too. Need to take it one game at a time, need to play quality cricket because we have a lot of quality in the dressing room.

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As comprehensive as it can get for KKR and Pune's situation can be summed up by Allan Donald's reaction after that last wicket, he had a wry smile on his face as if to say, "that's how life is for us!"

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Aaram: "Allan Donald with a ball in hand used to cut an intimidating figure; ah, how times change!" They do indeed.

shankar: "Last time I remember this reaction from Alan Donald he messed up the the run with Klusner on WC semi's against Australia." That would have hurt him much more I am sure.

Kapil: "Its sad to see Allan Donald like the way he is but he is responsible for this situation to certain extent.. Smith not playing initial games.. Dinda picked consistently even after failures.. And picking Marsh in almost all games and not playing Mendis against strong batting line ups"

Farhan Siddique: "@Shankar: That means you haven't seen him when Rahul Dravid hit him for Six."

19.3
W
Balaji to Parvez Rasool, OUT, whoa, what a catch! Balaji has taken a ripper! he was looking to go down the track and smash it back, the ball was a slower one and never came on to him, still manages to get a decent part of the bat on it, Balaji springs his hand out and grabs a superb catch, reflex, one-handed effort!

Parvez Rasool c & b Balaji 1 (3m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25.00

19.2
1
Balaji to Upadhyay, 1 run, on his pads and tucked away to the leg side for a single
19.1
W
Balaji to Kumar, OUT, bowled him, sneaks through his defences this time! he was looking to play it off the back foot but the ball's gone so low that there was no way he was getting close to it from that position, beaten and the off-stump's lying flat

B Kumar b Balaji 1 (3m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 33.33

END OF OVER:
19 | 2 Runs 1 Wkt | PWI: 105/8 (48 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 5.52, RRR: 48.00)

  • Parvez Rasool1 (3b)
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar1 (2b)
  • Sunil Narine4-0-12-2
  • Jacques Kallis4-0-27-2
18.6
0
Narine to Parvez Rasool, no run, ooh, tries to cut it away, it's a tad too quick for him and turning away too, beats the outside edge
18.5
1
Narine to Kumar, 1 run, opens the face of the bat and pushes it to the point fielder for a single
18.4
0
Narine to Kumar, no run, defended on the front foot and straight back to the bowler

Warriors 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st20RV UthappaAJ Finch
2nd3Yuvraj SinghRV Uthappa
3rd16RV UthappaUA Birla
4th14RV UthappaAD Mathews
5th25AD MathewsMR Marsh
6th17AD MathewsM Rawat
7th8M RawatWD Parnell
8th0WD ParnellB Kumar
9th2B KumarParvez Rasool
10th1Parvez RasoolK Upadhyay