Knight Riders again show that they are better then Deccan Chargers by beating them at Hyderabad by 23 runs in an Indian Premier League match at Hyderabad on Sunday. This is the kolkata's second win over chargers after the home win at kolkata eden garden.
Chasing a huge total of 204 the chargers reduced to 181 for seven wickets in their 20 overs after they needed 33 runs in the last over.
Riders bowl very well in the middle overs reduce the chargers to 63/4 in the 9th over. Venugopal Rao gave a fight to the riders but on the other end no one support him, He made magnificant 42 ball-71 Runs with six huge sixes and baged the DLF maximum sixes award. rohit sharma( 33 off 24 balls) and the captain Adam Gilchrist(24 off 17 balls) were the other mjor contributor.
In yesterdays match it was Saurav Gangully " DADA" who played splendid inning of 91 off 57 balls with 11 fours and 5 big sixes, He also tooks two good catches and also got two important wickets.
Ganguly won the toss and decided to bat first but Salman exit in the first over pegged back the visitors.Ganguly joined hands with Aakash Chopra (24) and added a 69-run stand to steady the ship before chopra gets out for 24, after the wicket of Akash Chopra David Hussey Came out to the field, then gangully and hussey added 102 runs for the Knight Riders .
Hussey remained unbeaten after a 29-ball knock that included four boundaries, besides three sixes.Laxmi Ratan Shukla was not out on 14 off just three balls as the Knight Riders went past the 200-run mark with the help of an overthrow by R. P Singh on the last ball.
RP Singh took the wicket of Saurav Ganguly.
After this match Knight Riders again came into the top 5 place and still in the Race of reaching to semi finals.
Kolkata Knight Riders ( 204/4, Saurav Ganguly-91,D Hussey*-57, L Shukla *-14, Vijay Kumar 1-21, RP singh 1-59, Ojha 1-25)
Deccan Chargers( 181/7 , Venugopal Rao*-71, R sharma-33, Gilly-24 A dinda-3-33 , Ganguly- 2-25 , L shukla 1-16)
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