Kochi beat Kolkata Knight Riders by six runs yesterday at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
A few days ago Kochi tuskers were all about a struggling team.After their weak performances everybody concluded.
It was the weakest team of IPL season 4.But things have changed accordingly after two matches beating Mumbai
And Chennai they suddenly came into the form.Kolkata bowlers Shakib Al Hasan and Yusuf Pathan took three wickets each restricting Kochi to 132/7 After Being put to bat by opposition skipper Gautam Gambhir,who won the
Toss,Kochi were batting with an ease with their openers Brendon Mccullum and captain Jayawardene at the line.Their partnership was in a good flow to get a big score but Shakib broke their partnership ending up a 49 run stand.
And McCullum ended up with a simple catch to Morgan and Jayawerdene too did not last long was out by Yusuf Pathan on 25.Yusuf Pathan has taken Parthiv Patel’s wicket and bowled Brad Hodge and Kochi was down with
65/4.Shakib Came into the field and scalped Kedar Jadhav on the last ball Kochi was 100/5 then.But
Ravindra Jadeja went for a big one and ended up giving catch to Yousuf Pathan at 29 somehow managed by Vijay Kumar Kochi ended up its innings on 132/7.
Knight Riders has the similar start Gambhir and RP singh tried to give KKR a big score but ended up their
Partnership with a caught byKedar Jadhav off R Vinay Kumar in the fourth over and Gambhir was stumped
Kolkata were 27/2.Manvinder Bisla also could not stay for long and was bowled out by R.Jadeja on 16.
Finally Manoj Tiwary and Morgan’s Partnership gave them 73 runs till Morgan’s wicket fall over.Finally with
All other batsmen innings the final score has to be reached and six more runs to be scored but KKR lost the
Match by six runs.
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