Kolkata Knight Riders score impressive win over defending champions Chennai Super Kings: IPL-4 News
CSK 114/4 20 overs KKR 61/2 10 overs
Kolkata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Knight-c71599 Riders continued their impressive run as they beat hot favourites and defending champions Chennai Super Kings to reach the top of the table in Indian Premier League 2011. In a match reduced due to rain the defending champions found the going extremely tough at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Batting first the CSK struggled to get the ball away on a difficult wicket at the biggest stadium in the world, the wicket was two paced with the odd ball stopping on the batsmen. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brett-Lee-c48419 the Australian pace mainstay bowled outstandingly to return incredible figures of 0/8 off 4 overs.
The roller coaster life of a T20 bowler cannot be further illustrated than by looking at Lee’s performance in the last two matches he has played for the KKR. In the game against Kochi Tuskers he was taken for more than 20 runs in the final over of the Tuskers' innings, and barely two days things changed dramatically for the veteran pacer.
For the CSK though batting was an uphill task, openers Michael Hussey and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Murali-Vijay-c78035 failed to impress while Suresh Raina the man the CSK rely on the most in the middle order failed also. It was left to S.Badrinath and Albie Morkel to revive the fortunes of their team a tad. They added 65 runs for the fourth wicket in 9 overs, taking their team to a rather disappointing score of 114/4 in the allotted overs.
The chase was never going to be a big challenge for the hosts who only needed to stay at the wicket, Eoin http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Tiwary-c1890.
Rain interrupted the proceedings in the 10th over of the KKR reply. However, the hosts were 10 runs ahead on the Duckworth/http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Iqbal-Abdulla-c1596 was named man of the match for figures of 1/15 from 4 highly impressive overs.
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