- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR3.2 it works out for Raina. Drops it back of a length, slight turn away from off stump. Narine backs away, probably to his peril as he has to reach out in the end to pull this. Gets it off the bottom and he can only lift it a couple of yards behind midwicket who pedals backwards and holds on 45/111.3 top edge is taken at midwicket. This is a good length ball that climbs up on him as he goes deep and looks to swat into the leg side. The top edge goes a few million miles in the air - Raina has enough time to check for his footing as he tries to get under it. Adjusts and looks up, finds himself right under it and pouches safely 114/218.2 full at middle stump, he looks to hit against the angle over midwicket, gets a leading edge that hangs up nicely for McCullum at long-on and he takes it comfortably 169/319.3 gone. Thampi gets his man in the end. Had him struggling all through with that yorker and he beats him this time. Takes out off stump with a deflection off the pads 184/419.5 yorker at off stump, hammered back past the bowler, straight to long-off. Yadav was looking to come back fot the second, but Yusuf had his back turned to the fielder. Poor running technique. He doesn't respond to his partner either. McCullum lobs it to the strikers end where Karthik collects it a little wide of the pitch, takes a a stride to his right and breaks the stumps with an over-arm throw before Yadav can return from his trip to halfway-down 186/5Extras3 (lb 2, w 1)TOTAL187/5 (20 Overs, RR: 9.35)Fall of wickets: 1-45 (Sunil Narine, 3.2 ov), 2-114 (Gautam Gambhir, 11.3 ov), 3-169 (Robin Uthappa, 18.2 ov), 4-184 (Manish Pandey, 19.3 ov), 5-186 (Suryakumar Yadav, 19.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB P Kumar 2 0 24 1 12 4 5 0 0 0 JP Faulkner 4 0 38 1 9.5 7 6 0 0 0 Basil Thampi 4 0 44 1 11 7 5 2 0 0 SK Raina 2 0 11 1 5.5 4 1 0 0 0 DS Kulkarni 2 0 23 0 11.5 3 3 1 0 0 RA Jadeja 4 0 31 0 7.75 5 2 1 0 0 DR Smith 2 0 14 0 7 2 1 0 1 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR3.3 gets slightly big on him and this time he makes contact on the pull. But unlike the previous bouncer, this one is not slow, comes on quickly to him and catches Finch by surprise. He does not find the middle of the bat and holes out to deep square leg 42/16.2 holes out to sweeper cover. McCullum backs away and lofts this over the off side. Good, pacy delivery from Woakes, at 140 kph, on the stumps, McCullum flays it but straight into the hands of Manish Pandey who snaffles it reverse-cupped 73/217.5 too close to cut and Kuldeep gets some extra bounce. Raina cannot completely free his arms as he looks to slap it away and ends up chipping it to Manish Pandey who runs to his left from point and takes the catch 180/67.2 leading edge, taken. That's a smart catch by Gambhir at covers. Karthik perishes trying to play across the line. Tries to make use of the wrists and flicks it from outside off, closes the face of his bat early, it just straightened from the good length region. Gambhir dives to his left to snaffle it 81/311.4 sliding in with the arm on leg, Kishan gets down to sweep and does not keep it down. He had to go for it, the dots were piling, does not get it as fine as he would have liked, holes out to Umesh, who is in the deep, just backward of square leg 115/412.4 bowled him, Umesh strikes in his first over and Smith is gone. Full, on off and middle, swings back in late to find the inside edge of Smith, bottom of the bat, off the toe end and into the stumps 122/5Extras5 (lb 4, nb 1)TOTAL188/6 (18.2 Overs, RR: 10.25)Fall of wickets: 1-42 (Aaron Finch, 3.3 ov), 2-73 (Brendon McCullum, 6.2 ov), 3-81 (Dinesh Karthik, 7.2 ov), 4-115 (Ishan Kishan, 11.4 ov), 5-122 (Dwayne Smith, 12.4 ov), 6-180 (Suresh Raina, 17.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Shakib Al Hasan 3 0 31 0 10.33 7 5 1 0 0 SP Narine 4 0 42 0 10.5 7 4 2 0 0 NM Coulter-Nile 3.2 0 41 2 12.3 6 5 2 0 1 CR Woakes 2 0 20 1 10 3 2 1 0 0 Kuldeep Yadav 4 0 33 2 8.25 7 3 1 0 0 UT Yadav 2 0 17 1 8.5 3 1 1 0 0
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- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 65 runs, 1 wicket)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 4.1 overs (25 balls), Extras 0
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 39 balls (G Gambhir 29, RV Uthappa 19, Ex 2)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 10.1 overs (61 balls), Extras 2
- RV Uthappa: 50 off 35 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 150 runs in 16.2 overs (98 balls), Extras 3
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 35 balls (RV Uthappa 34, MK Pandey 15, Ex 1)
- Innings Break: Kolkata Knight Riders - 187/5 in 20.0 overs (YK Pathan 11, Shakib Al Hasan 1)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 72 runs, 1 wicket)
- Gujarat Lions: 50 runs in 3.5 overs (24 balls), Extras 2
- Rain: Gujarat Lions - 62/1 in 5.0 overs (BB McCullum 27, SK Raina 2)
- Gujarat Lions: 100 runs in 10.1 overs (62 balls), Extras 4
- SK Raina: 50 off 32 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Gujarat Lions: 150 runs in 15.5 overs (96 balls), Extras 5
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 27 balls (SK Raina 35, RA Jadeja 14, Ex 1)
Match Coverage
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Raina special helps Lions roar
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