Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 v Kolkata Knight Riders - IPL 5 – Pune restrict Kolkata on 136 – Live Score and Update
Kolkata Knight Riders 136/4 (20/20 ov) - Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and chose to bat
On Saturday, Kolkata Knight Riders after winning the toss, chose to bat first against hosts Pune Warriors, but failed to amass a massive tally on the board as they were restricted to 136 runs for the loss of four wickets at Subrata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 Sahara Stadium, Pune.
The match holds great importance for Kolkata as they would want to finish among the top two teams in the tournament, while for Pune the tournament is already over and there is nothing much that they can achieve from winning this match.
“It's much more important game for us than it is for PWI. We have to finish in the top 2 and we want to get the 2 points from this game,” said KKR skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 before the start of play.
Kolkata got off to a decent start as openers, Gambhir and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BB-McCullum-c1129 jammed an innings of 21 runs before the skipper got caught by Nehra off the bowling of Parnell after scoring 10 runs off 12 deliveries.
It was them time for South African all-rounder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692, to take the field and the batsman forged a potent partnership alongside his opener to give the fielding side a sweat.
The duo took the score to 40 runs after which KKR suffered the demise of their second wicket with Kallis departing after playing a knock of 13 runs.
This was a blow for the team as Kallis was expected to jab a big innings before the start of play-offs, but recently the player seems to have lost his glorious form with the bat.
Nonetheless, today was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c2492 day as the batsmen gave a resilient performance alongside McCullum steering the score to 107 runs before the latter found his way back to the pavilion after scoring an innings of 41 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990 was the next man to fall as he fell after crafting a handsome innings of 42 runs, leaving his team standing on a tally of 117 runs.
KKR’s main failure was the fact that their batsmen could not score big runs in the death which cost them a big total which they could have achieved had they batted aggressively at the end.
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