Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders - Indian Premier League - 44th match – Live Score and Update
Kolkata Knight Riders 136 v Delhi Daredevils 137 - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 Daredevils won by 7 wickets (with 13 balls remaining)
Kolkata Knight Riders lost their match against Delhi Daredevils by seven wickets with 13 deliveries remaining, failing to defend 136 at Shaheed Veer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Narayan-Singh-c78624 International Stadium, Raipur.
Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to bat, lost their first wicket with only four runs on the board when skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 was run out without opening his account.
Then with 16 on the scoreboard, the batting side lost the services of MS Bisla, who was clean bowled after scoring only four runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/YK-Pathan-c2815 and JH Kallis tried to bring some stability in the middle, but failed as the pair was separated on the demise of Pathan, who hit the showers after scoring 20 runs, leaving his side lingering on 37.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/EJG-Morgan-c1419 were up next but could only take the score to 48, before the latter was removed by Nadeem after scoring ten runs.
Two runs later, JH Kallis also lost his wicket after scoring 12 runs off 15 deliveries. These were troubling times for KKR as they were heading towards a low scoring end to their innings.
DB Das and R Bhatia then showed some form as they took their side towards 84 runs, before DB Das became the next batsman to find his way off the field with 18 runs off his bat.
Later, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Bhatia-c82926’s 26 and S Narwal 23 helped KKR post a modest score on the board.
KKR now needed to give a belligerent bowling performance in the middle to halt their opponents from reaching the target.
They made early inroads when Kallis nabbed the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739 who succumbed after making 17 runs. At the time of this wicket, Delhi Daredevils had managed to post 23 runs on the board.
With 27 on the board, Balaji dismissed DD skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397, who scored only five runs.
KKR needed to maintain this pressure on the opposition, however, DD’s middle-order batsmen UBT Chand and DA Warner away from KKR, as they managed to help their side reach 122 runs.
This partnership ended on the wicket of Chand, who fell with 37 runs under his belt. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DA-Warner-c1301’s unbeaten 66 was enough to help his side reach the target in 17.5 overs.
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