LIVE – Somerset v Kolkata Knight Riders - Ryan ten Doeschate’s 46-run knock fails to save the Riders from defeat against Somerset – Match Update
Kolkata Knight Riders failed to beat http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792 on Wednesday, September 21, 2011.
After being clobbered for 166 runs by Somerset, Kolkata knew that they needed to bat really well against the opposition to grab a win in order to qualify for the remainder of the tournament. Meanwhile, on the other hand Somerset were also desperate to win
the match to avoid elimination.
For Kolkata tragedy struck early when on the first delivery of the second over opener Manvinder Bisla, after scoring only eight runs off six deliveries found his way back to the pavilion after being run-out.
Then on the penultimate delivery of the same over, Somerset struck once more and this time they grabbed the prized wicket of the KKR skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692, who after scoring only a run off four deliveries was caught by Hildreth at mid-on off the bowling
of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Murali-Kartik-c78034. At the time of this wicket, Kolkata had managed to post only 10 runs on the board for the loss of two wickets.
In the middle-order, it was then the 22-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RN-ten-Doeschate-c2338 in
the later part of the innings that really turned things in favour of KKR as he inched the side closer to victory with some prolific batting.
The batsman smashed a sensational innings of 46 runs off 31 deliveries before losing his wicket in the 20th over when he had his stumps uprooted by Roelof http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Robert-Cowdrey-c60631 der Merwe who bowled a sensational delivery that was just too good to be held back.
At the time of this wicket, KKR had scored 153 runs for the loss of eight wickets and then later could only bolster 155 runs before the match ended.
Regarding the bowling department, Somerset used seven bowlers out of which Merwe and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Max-Waller-c1935 grabbed two wickets each.
With this win by 11 runs, Somerset has gone through to the next level while KKR have also qualified for the remainder of the tournament on the basis of improved run-rate.
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