I Knew we could defend 140, says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 after win over Mumbai Indians – Cricket News Update
Relieved after clinching a comprehensive 32-run win over Mumbai Indians on Wednesday, the Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper, Gautam Gambhir, said that a defeat last night could have put them under immense pressure to perform well in their last league match
against Pune Warriors http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
“This was an important match for us in the sense that had we not won this match, we would have put a lot of pressure on ourselves to deliver in the final league match,” said the Knight Riders skipper after 32-run win over Harbhajan led Mumbai Indians at
Wankhede Stadium, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 on Wednesday night.
After being put into bat by Mumbai at Wankhede, the explosive KKR batting line up could amass a mediocre total of 140 for 7. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Tiwary-c1890 top scored for the Knight Riders with a 43-ball 41, laced with two sixes and two boundaries. The other notable performances
were skipper Gautam Gambhir (27 off 23 balls) and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/YK-Pathan-c2815 (21 not out from as many deliveries).
In reply, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KD-Karthik-c1780 were the only notable performers from the Mumbai outfit with 27 and 21 runs respectively.
Asked if he expected to win after scoring just 140 runs, Gambhir said that he was always confident of defending the total.
“Of course, I did…We did not score too many runs but I knew we could defend it,” said the 30-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Paul-Anthony-Hibbert-c81005, who, after playing the first three editions of IPL for Daredevils, moved to Kolkata last year.
“Before coming to bowl we were determined to contain them. To be honest, after losing two wickets so cheaply, I thought we did a decent job to reach 140,” he added further.
Gambhir singled out Man of the Match, Sunil Narine for praise, who returned with figures of 4 for 15 in 3.1 overs.
“Narine was definitely in great form as he captured four wickets, but our all the others bowlers also did a great job.”
Knight Riders will next play http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 at the latter's backyard on May 19.
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