Player of the Match
Player of the Match
2335dThe Report by Sidharth Monga

van der Merwe leads Somerset to tight win

Jacques Kallis showed technical prowess, Yusuf Pathan great power, but the pugnacious Roelof van der Merwe mastered the slow and low track the best to help Somerset chase a daunting 162

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

JH Kallis
74(61) 4x4 - 4x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 27 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
6 0 6 9 13 14 10 16
RE van der Merwe
RE van der Merwe
73(40) 9x4 - 2x6
Control %87%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 19 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
17 5 6 15 9 0 4 17

Best performances - Bowlers

L Gregory
L Gregory
O2
M0
R9
W2
Eco4.50
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
R Bhatia
O3.4
M0
R27
W2
Eco7.36
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

Kolkata Knight Riders , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.20, Interval 21.20-21.40, Second Session 21.40-23.00

Match days

25 September 2011 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Somerset 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0

Scorer: S Balasubramanian | Commentator: Siddarth Ravindran

Compton: "There was no need to panic, we could play a few dot balls, feels very good to finish it off. "

Paaritosh writes in: "Seems like India can't defeat England even in the club level this season!"

"If it takes a weird name to get comments posted, you HAVE TO post mine! I've been trying to post my comments for every single match since the India tour of England with my real name :(" says Thirupathaiah Avululla, a tongue-twister that's hard to beat.

Post-match presentation
Gautam Gambhir: "I think we batted really well, but the first six overs the way van der Merwe batted, he took the game away from us. It was a very competitive total we put up."

Alfonso Thomas: "I thought I lost it when I brought Suppiah in to bowl against Yusuf. but this man behind me (Roelof) is a wonderful cricketer. The belief in the team (is one of our strengths)."

The Man of the Match is Roelof van der Merwe: "It is always good to play an innings to win, and help the team win. Very happy at Somerset and hopefully can help them do well. I have worked hard at my game in the (South African) winter."

That's the end of the fun from the CLT20 for today. If you haven't had your share of Twenty20 kicks for the day, hop over to the England-West Indies game. Thanks for all the mails, see you tomorrow.

19.4
4
Bhatia to Compton, FOUR, Compton finishes it in style, moves across the stumps and scoops that towards the fine leg boundary to end the game
19.3
1
Bhatia to Snell, 1 run, mistimed pull to a short ball, down to long-on for a single, 2 needed off 3 now
19.2
0
Bhatia to Snell, no run, slower ball, length and on off stump, defended with soft hands to the off side, Bhatia races through to field that, dot ball
19.1
1
Bhatia to Compton, 1 run, very wide outside off, Compton slaps it past point, would have been a wide if Compton had left that alone

Bhatia to bowl the final over. Four needed to win

END OF OVER:
19 | 10 Runs | SOM: 158/5 (4 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.31, RRR: 4.00)

  • Nick Compton14 (15b)
  • Steve Snell5 (4b)
  • Lakshmipathy Balaji3-0-23-0
  • Brett Lee4-0-27-0
18.6
1
Balaji to Compton, 1 run, short and outside off, chopped past point for a single
18.5
0
Balaji to Compton, no run, a superb yorker from Balaji, through the batsman's legs to the keeper, too little too late?

Somerset 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st15PD TregoCR Jones
2nd105PD TregoRE van der Merwe
3rd1JC HildrethRE van der Merwe
4th2NRD ComptonJC Hildreth
5th18AV SuppiahNRD Compton
6th23SD SnellNRD Compton

Champions League Twenty20

Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
NSW43160.627
MI4215-0.28
T&T42240.176
COBRA41230.229
CSK4132-0.712
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
SOM4215-0.557
RCB42240.325
KKR42240.306
WAR42240.246
SOA4123-0.533
Qualifying Tournament Pool A
TeamMWLPTNRR
SOM22040.3
KKR2112-0.225
AUCK2020-0.075
Qualifying Tournament Pool B
TeamMWLPTNRR
T&T22041.659
RU2112-0.275
LEICS2020-1.375