CLT20 2011- Kolkata Knight Riders v South Australia – First Innings Recap
South Australia set a humongous total for Kolkata Knight Riders to chase in a Champions League Twenty20 match played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792, on Tuesday, September 27.
Thanks to some power hitting from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-Christian-c1308, the Australian club was able to post 188 runs for the loss of five wickets. The 26-year-old Ferguson was the top scorer for South Australia. He remained unbeaten
with 70 runs, which included five fours and four sixes. Christian, on the other hand, contributed 42 runs which included four fours and two sixes.
For Kolkata, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c2492 was the pick of the bowlers; though the left-arm spinner did not pick any wicket, he was quite economical.
The toss went South Australia’s way and their skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447, was disappointed as he was looking to bat first as well.
The Aussie side made a couple of changes in their outfit - right-arm pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kane-Richardson-c1765 were included as their replacements.
South Australian openers, Klinger and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Iqbal-Abdulla-c1596 by defending the first couple of overs.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lakshmipathy-Balaji-c72130 dropped him at long-off on the fourth ball of Abdulla’s
over, Harris went big once again and this time it was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/YK-Pathan-c2815 who was hit for a six towards deep midwicket in the fifth over.
Balaji, who was the birthday boy, made up for his earlier mistake and took the wicket of Harris (26). The batsman went one shot too many and was caught at midwicket by Abdulla.
Ferguson came out at number three to accompany his skipper, but their partnership could not last long as Manvinder Bisla and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RN-ten-Doeschate-c2338 joined forces to get Klinger run out. The skipper of South Australia made 20 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cameron-Borgas-c1212 (14) was the next man in and was also the next man to be dismissed on the final ball of the 11th over. South Australia were on 77 runs at that point.
Christian filled the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Peter-Hewitt-c66001 of Borgas, and along with Ferguson, started to rebuild the innings. KKR bowlers were hampering the flow of runs. Both batsmen got tired of being bought down and initiated a counterattack against KKR bowlers,
which worked out for them.
Ferguson showed no mercy to Pathan as he bashed the off-spinner for three fours and one massive six over long-on. Pathan’s over fetched 20 runs for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Australia-c844.
Christian imitated Ferguson and clobbered Abdulla for 15 runs. Both batsmen took apart KKR’s bowling attack with ease. Their 84-run partnership came to an end in the 19th over, when the birthday boy saw the back of Christian
on 42.
Nonetheless, Ferguson stood tall till the end and amassed 70 runs from 40 deliveries as South Australia finish their innings on 188.
Some special efforts were required from KKR batting brigade if they were to chase down the gigantic total.
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