IPL8 – Kolkata takes revenge – beats Chennai by 7 wickets at Eden Gardens

#IPL8 #KKRvsCSK #AndreRusell #EdenGardens It was revenge, sweet revenge for the Kolkata Knight Riders as they, the defending champions, beat Chennai Super Kings by 7 wickets at the Eden Gardens in yet another last ball finish. This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 30 April 2015.

KKR chased down the stiff 166-run target with just one ball to spare. It was due to the unbeaten 112-run partnership between Robin Uthappa (80*) and Andre Russell (59*) for the fourth wicket. These superb knocks saw KKR gain an emphatic seven-wicket win against two-time champions Chennai Super Kings. It was their return leg clash of the Indian Premier League. Winning the toss, Gautam Gambhir sent in M S Dhoni’s team to bat first – his logic was that once a target had been set by the opposition, it would be better to make strategies to go for a win. It had paid off earlier and, this time also, Gambhir was not disappointed. CSK had got off to a bad start with Dwayne Smith going out to the very first ball on the innings but Brendon McCullum appeared to be on fire but Brad Hogg played spoilsport by picking up 4 wickets for only 21runs. M S Dhoni’s bad form with the bat continued but Dwayne Bravo (30), Ravindra Jadeja (24) and Pawan Negi (27) did contribute to put up a score of 165 but it was just not enough. Andre Russell was the Man of the Match.

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