Kolkata Knight Riders v South Australia – Champions League Twent20 – Match Recap
South Australia 188 v Kolkata Knight Riders 169 - South Australia won by 19 runs
South Australia (SA) beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by a margin of 19 runs after the Australian club posted 188 runs on the board in the ongoing 2011/12 season of Champions League Twenty20 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 on Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
After winning the toss, South Australia decided to bat first against Kolkata Knight Riders to post enough runs on the board to give their bowlers a fighting chance against a very formidable side.
Openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-Harris-c1310 put a commendable show as they clobbered KKR right from the word go, giving the spectators hiccups as the fans had come to support the local team from Kolkata.
South Australia raced to 45 runs before losing their first wicket in the sixth over when opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Iqbal-Abdulla-c1596 at mid-off in the sixth over.
SA lost their second wicket in the next over when opener Klinger was run-out when he tried to take an extremely risky single. The batsman was well short, and had to walk back to the pavilion after scoring 20 runs off 18 deliveries. At the time of his departure, the side had managed to post 51 runs on the board.
It was then the number three batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CJ-Ferguson-c1264, who tried to counter the bowling by KKR to avoid a possible comeback from the fielding side as the game was well in the control of the Australians.
However, when the total tally was 77 runs, the batting side suffered another loss when middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/YK-Pathan-c2815 in the 11th over.
It was then the 28-year-old all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-Christian-c1308’s turn to come in and forge a partnership with Ferguson to stop the Knight Riders from making a strong comeback in the match.
The two batsmen posted 84 runs together in the fourth wicket partnership, crushing Kolkata’s hopes of restricting the batting side from scoring a daunting total.
It was then in the 19th over when Kolkata finally managed to break the partnership when Christian after smashing 42 runs off 27 deliveries was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Tiwary-c1890 off the bowling of Balaji. By this time, South Australia had managed to post 161 runs on the board for the loss of four wickets
In the end, with Ferguson unbeaten on 70 runs off 40 deliveries, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Australia-c844 finally managed to post 188 runs on the board in 20 overs.
With 189 runs to chase in 20 overs, KKR failed to give their innings a flying start as in the second over they lost the wicket of opener Manvinder Bisla, who after scoring 13 runs had his stumps shattered by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kane-Richardson-c1765. At the time of this wicket, Kolkata had managed to post only 15 runs on the board.
With only 37 runs on the board, Kolkata lost their second wicket when the 24-year-old batsman from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990 contributed 13 runs off 11 deliveries before finding his way back to the pavilion.
Skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692 who was caught and bowled by Harris on the penultimate deliver of the 11th over. Kallis played a hefty knock of 20 runs off 19 deliveries before leaving the crease.
Meanwhile, it was a solid knock of 40 runs from Tiwary that really gave his team a chance to grab a win in the match. However, when the score was 104 runs, Kane Richardson managed to grab his wicket when the batsman was caught by Christian at deep midwicket.
CJ Ferguson was named as the Man of the Match for his astounding batting performance in the game.
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