Kolkata Knight Riders v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals – IPL 5 – Kolkata run down Rajasthan Royals – Cricket Score and Update
Rajasthan Royals 131/5 (20/20 ov) v Kolkata Knight Riders 137/5 (19.2/20 ov) - Kolkata Knight Riders won by 5 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)
Kolkata Knight Riders secured their second win on Friday against Rajasthan Royals in the 15th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL), at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, after successfully chasing a total of 132 runs needed to win the match.
With this win, Kolkata now stand at fourth place in the tournament, just behind Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861, and Royals have now dropped to fifth position.
After Rajasthan chose to bat first, they failed to post a staggering total on the board duo to some outstanding bowling from KKR spinner, Shakib Al http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990, who nabbed three wickets in the match and played an important role in restricting the batting side from amassing a massive total on the board.
With a small total at hand, KKR began their innings aiming to secure their second win of the tournament.
The side got off to a decent start as openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 amassed 22 runs before skipper Gambhir faltered after scoring 11 runs.
Kallis and Manvinder Bisla then took control of the situation and prevented the fielding side from making further inroads as the duo steered the side to 70 runs before the demise of Kallis, who walked back to the pavilion after playing an innings of 31 runs.
After seeing the back of Kallis, Rajasthan sought this as their chance to make a comeback in the match, but the partnership between Bisla and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Tiwary-c1890 was just too hot to handle.
With 94 runs on the board, Bisla became the third wicket to fall as he perished after scoring an innings of 29 runs.
Finally with 108 runs on the board, KKR lost their fourth wicket when Tiwary fell after hammering an innings of 24 runs.
All-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c2492 jammed an innings of 16 runs off 10 deliveries to pace things a little.
Later, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RN-ten-Doeschate-c2338 unbeaten on seven runs each, KKR won the match in 19.2 overs.
Shakib Al Hasan was named as the Player of the Match for his performance both with the bat and ball.
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