IPL8 – Kolkata Knight Riders a hard nut to crack for Delhi Daredevils even at home

#IPL8 #gautamgambhir #KKRvsDD #yusufpathan #umeshyadav Put into bat by Gautam Gambhir, the Delhi Daredevils discovered that the KKR is a hard nut to crack even at home. The Delhi Daredevils were hurt by lack of partnerships and, thanks to a late flourish from Angelo Mathews (21-ball 28), the home side limped to a score of just 146/8 which was certainly not what they had in mind. Yuvraj Singh contributed only 21 runs after being stumped.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 20 April 2015.

The Kolkata bowlers led by pacers Morne Morkel and Umesh Yadav bowled a tight line and the South African pacer (2/30) drew first blood after getting Mayank Agarwal (1) caught at long leg with Umesh Yadav taking a sprawling catch.
The assault of KKR was mainly by the Captain Gautam Gambhir – his 49-ball 60 led Kolkata Knight Riders to a convincing six-wicket victory against Delhi Daredevils in their IPL encounter at the Feroz Shah Kotla. His able team mate Yusuf Pathan also contributed by remaining unbeaten on 40. This knock came off 26 balls and was studded with a huge six and six fours.
Umesh Yadav was the Man of the Match with his 3 for 18 in the allotted 4 overs.

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#IPL8 #KKRvsRCB #EdenGardens #KKR #RCB #GautamGambhir It was a sad Saturday evening for Gautam Gambhir and KKR at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, because, having put up an imposing total of 177 runs on the scoreboard for RCB to chase down, he must have been sitting pretty counting on his team of five spinners to spin their magical webs to ensure that RCB does not reach the target.
But, Gautam Gambhir had not reckoned with the devastating force of Chris Gayle, the opener of RCB, who overturned the KKR applecart with one over to spare. He fell 4 runs short of a three figure mark and, in scoring his 96 runs, he struck seven boundaries and an equal number of sixes.
Incidentally, Chris Gayle was dropped by Morne Morkel while on 63 and the total on 131 for five and that was a costly miss. In T-20, catches and half chances must be gobbled up else, there is only disappointment and repenting. There is no use crying over spilt milk.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 11 April 2015.

Gautam Gambhir scored 58 runs off 46 balls (7x4, 1x6) and Robin Uthappa (35 from 28 balls; 4x4) – that gave them a good start with an 81-run opening partnership. However, their players failed to capitalize on that sort of a start mostly because of poor batting between 11-15 overs. In the final analysis, it appeared that they fell short of at least 15 runs. On hindsight, a score nearer to 200 would have been more competitive.

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