Rain delays play between Kolkata Knight Riders and the Royal Challengers Bangalore
The 58th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) between Kolkata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Knight-c71599 Riders (KKR) and the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore has been delayed due to rain.
The visitors had reached 69 for the loss of three wickets when rain poured down, forcing the umpires to call covers.
Toss was won by the RCB captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virat-Kohli-c95424. He elected to field first, saying, “It rained last night so the wicket might have something in it for the first six overs. It is a gut feeling as well, we have been chasing well. We have two changes, Mithun in
for Kazi, and Luke Pomersbach in for Dilshan.”
On the other hand, the captain of KKR, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gautam-Gambhir-c58623, also claimed to have fielded first had he won the toss. However, he was confident of a good show by the team.
The start to the KKR innings was not an ideal one. They lost three quick wickets for just 30 runs on the board.
Star English batsman, Eoin Morgan, was the first man to be dismissed in the innings. He came down the pitch and attempted a lofted stroke over midwicket but failed to clear the circle. He was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-Pomersbach-c1856, who was playing his first game of the
season.
Veteran all-rounder, Jacques Kallis, repeated the same mistake as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Morgan-c77707 and was dismissed in an attempt to play an aggressive stroke. He danced down the track and tried to force the ball over the cover region, but only managed a faint tickle, which was
neatly taken by the wicketkeeper.
Kallis looked good in the middle for his 17 runs of 14 balls. He struck three fours in his innings, but would have been disappointed with the way he got out.
KKR’s captain also got out early after scoring just seven runs, but the innings was then held together by, Yusuf Pathan and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Tiwary-c1890. Both players were unbeaten on 28 and 12 when the play was stopped.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zaheer-Khan-c98451 was the pick of the bowlers for his Bangalore, taking one wicket in his three over spell.
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