KKR seals 11 run victory over Deccan Chargers
KKR Vs DC- IPL- Season 3 – 1st Match
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With the new staff, new look and new Captain, KKR had come in IPL-3 as a rejuvenated team trying to prove not to the world but to themselves that they can be winners too. However, the match started at the same old note for KKR when they lost 2 wickets of Manoj Tiwary and Saurav Ganguly in the very first over by Chaminda Vaas. After putting into bat by Deccan Chargers, KKR were hoping to break the jinx in the third edition of IPL and it wasn’t the best of starts by them.
After umpire Rudi Koertzen asked whether all parties were ready, Vaas came charging in to the batsman Tiwary and drifted on his pads, forcing him to play forward scooping a catch to short midwicket. After Tiwary, Ganguly also departed to a Vaas’s delivery, fuller outside off stump and batsman could not help playing at it, leaving it to be caught at first slip. If only 2 wickets were not enough, KKR kept losing wickets with Cheteshwar Pujara aping Manoj Tiwary and Brad Hodge trying to punch a short ball outside off stump, found Gibbs at short point.
It was going to be a task for Owais Shah and Angelo Matthews to consolidate and put up a decent score for KKR bowlers to defend. And how beautifully they have done that. It was a contrasting innings when the first ten overs produced only 56 runs and they lost 4 wickets while the last ten overs both Owais Shah and Angelo Matthews made 104 runs with no wicket.
In response to KKR’s score, Deccan chargers had a tough time chasing. Though Gilchrist and Laxman started cautiously but steadily and picked up the scoring rate once the first strategy break was taken and scored 61 for the first wicket. Then started the sudden flurry of wickets and Deccan just could not recover from the same and choked even when they had the match in sight. So the scoreline of 99 for 1 became 125 for 5 and only 51 runs were scored in the last ten overs which was a complete contrast to KKR’s innings. With 21 rns needed in 12 balls and only Indian batsmen on crease and to come, Deccan could see the trouble. Finally, KKR were able to pull the game through by 11 runs.
From bowling point of view, all KKR bowlers chipped in with a wicket or two. The main area of concern for KKR bowling coach Wasim Akram would be to keep a check on the wide and no balls bowled in the innings. Even if the score was competetive and ther was no poer packed bowling performance, still Knightriders looked like a team cut out for the task of winning tonite and never looked out of the game. Lengedevelt, Matthews, Ishant and Laxmi Shukla made sure that there are enough variations for the batsmen to score runs on the pitch.
Result:
KKR beat DC by 11 runs.
Points: KKR (2) and DC (0)
Man of the Match: Angelo Matthews
Team Standings after this match
| Team | M | W | L | P | N.R.R |
| Delhi Dare Devils | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Deccan Chargers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -0.550 |
| Kings XI Pun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Knight Riders | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +0.550 |
| Mumbai Indians | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chennai Superkings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rajastan Royals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Royal Challengers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Squads :
Deccan Chargers:
AC Gilchrist*†, HH Gibbs, A Symonds, VVS Laxman, RG Sharma, Anirudh Singh, TL Suman, Jaskaran Singh, WPUJC Vaas, RP Singh, PP Ojha.
Kolkata Knight Riders:
SC Ganguly*, BJ Hodge, CA Pujara, MK Tiwary, OA Shah, AD Mathews, WP Saha†, LR Shukla, M Kartik, CK Langeveldt, I Sharma.
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