2095dThe Report by Sidharth Monga

Warriors take KKR down with them

Yusuf Pathan ended his three-year IPL fifty drought, but the day was meant for the end of another barren spell

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

YK Pathan
YK Pathan
72(44) 8x4 - 2x6
Control %70%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 21 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
1 4 10 3 9 14 6 25
MK Pandey
MK Pandey
66(47) 8x4 - 1x6
Control %77%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 15 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
13 0 8 14 8 2 9 12

Best performances - Bowlers

WD Parnell
WD Parnell
O4
M0
R34
W2
Eco8.50
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
IC Pandey
O2
M0
R17
W1
Eco8.50
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Kolkata Knight Riders , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.25, Interval 21.25-21.45, Second Session 21.45-23.05

Match days

15 May 2013 - day/night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Pune Warriors 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0

Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Suneer Chowdhary

END OF OVER:
20 | 10 Runs 1 Wkt | KKR: 163/7 (8 runs required, RR: 8.15)

  • Sachithra Senanayake2 (1b)
  • Debabrata Das8 (6b)
  • Angelo Mathews3-0-25-0
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar4-0-22-1

Pune started well with the ball, then Pathan and Tendo brought KKR back into the game before Tendo got out. Pathan could have still them through given that he had batted very well till then. Suddenly there was an obstruction in the field from Pathan and with it went out their chances of making it to the playoffs.

Presentation quotes:

Gambhir: Tough pill to swallow. The way Pathan was going we should have won the game. Pretty freak dismissal, not seen it in my career, but I don't know. We haven't played good cricket, not been consistent enough.

Finch: We have played some good cricket throughout the tournament but haven't been able to get over the line. We are happy to knock KKR off given that we had nothing else to play for tonight.

Manish Pandey is the man of the match: It feels great after losing nine games. We could not do as we expected as a team but happy today.

That's it from this game, shuffle across to the live coverage of the blockbuster, Mumbai and Rajasthan.

19.6
2
Mathews to Senanayake, 2 runs, another full-toss that's hit to wide long-on for a couple of runs, that means that Pune have finally won the game but more vitally, KKR have crashed out of the competition
19.5
1
Mathews to Das, 1 run, a low full-toss outside the off stump and the only thing he can do is to hit it straight to the long-on fielder for a single
19.4
W
Mathews to Bhatia, 1 run, OUT, outside the off stump, and he has sliced it over to deep cover, there was an easy two there but the batsman at the striker's end did not want to, he tries to get back to the non-striker's end and despite hitting the stumps with his body, Mathews seems to have uprooted the stumps with the ball in his hands. The third ump has been called to adjudicate that one and it's out!

R Bhatia run out 10 (9m 9b 1x4 0x6) SR: 111.11

19.3
4
Mathews to Bhatia, FOUR, whoa, full-toss with the square-leg inside the circle, he was looking to pull it away and the mistimed shot goes away for a four
19.2
2
Mathews to Bhatia, 2 runs, fuller outside the off stump and he looks to hit it over the fielder at long-on, gets a single to the wide fielder, come back for the second and the throw is a pretty bad one
19.1
0
Mathews to Bhatia, no run, wide outside the off stump, he was moving towards the ball and despite being outside that line, it's not wide enough to be called a wide

Pratyush Pushkar: "As much as I dont like YP, that was not deliberate. Look carefully, YP was looking at Das asking him to run !"

Sahaj: "i wonder why they are not considering that first Parnell hold the hand of Pathan then he kicked the ball."

Jury: "That did look deliberate, if you kick the ball by mistake its normally using the front of your leg. This was a classic way how a footballer would kick a ball.."

Karguvel: "This is not the football game. You shouldn't tackle the opponent :P"

Abhinav: "Pathan needs to stop whining. The TV replay is more revealing than he realizes!"

KKR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st17G GambhirMS Bisla
2nd8JH KallisG Gambhir
3rd4G GambhirYK Pathan
4th98YK PathanRN ten Doeschate
5th1YK PathanMK Tiwary
6th20YK PathanDB Das
7th12R BhatiaDB Das
8th3SMSM SenanayakeDB Das