Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 v Kolkata Knight Riders – IPL 5 – KKR hammer Pune by 34 runs – Live Score and Update
Kolkata Knight Riders 136/4 (20/20 ov) v Pune Warriors 102/8 (20.0/20 ov) - Kolkata Knight Riders won by 34 runs
Saturday, May 19: Kolkata Knight Riders consolidated their second spot on the points table by hammering Pune a defeat of 34 runs in the 70th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), at Subrata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 Sahara Stadium, Pune.
While Pune were only playing for pride, KKR needed to stay among the top two teams in order to better their standing before going into the play-offs.
Speaking after the well crafted victory, KKR skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 now and helps us two cracks. We were discussing before this game to treat this as the quarter-finals and win the next three matches to win the IPL.”
Meanwhile, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c2492 was named as the Player of the Match for his emphatic knock of 42 runs in the death to help his side reach a total of 136 runs and then later grabbed two wickets in his four overs.
“It is very similar to wickets back home, was hitting the ball well, had a good net session last night which was good. We knew we could change the momentum by hitting a couple of boundaries,” said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990.
Earlier, after winning the toss, KKR chose to bat first, but lost the services of their skipper with only 21 runs on the board, as Gambhir perished after scoring only 10 runs.
All-rounder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692, was then the next man to lose his wicket as he fell after scoring an innings of 13 runs, leaving his team on a total of 40 on the board.
It was then the fine knocks from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BB-McCullum-c1129 (41) and Hasan that got the team out of trouble and in a position from where they could win the match.
Coming out to chase down a tally of 137 runs in 20 overs, Pune lost their first wicket with 11 runs on the board.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120, who fell after scoring a knock of 13 runs.
The team then kept losing wickets, which ultimately cost them the game as Ryder was the highest scorer with a knock of 22 runs to his name.
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