After winning their first two games of IPL-3, Knight Riders' skipper Sourav Ganguly said he will party only after winning third on the trot - vs Chennai. Alas, that never happened. Kolkata lost and dada will have to wait to uncork the champagne. BTW, what was the hurry to rush a jet-lagged Shane Bond in playing XI less than 48 hours after he arrived from New Zealand. Bowling coach Wasim Akram, wanna answer this one?
Kolkata: Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed a superb 33-ball 66 (6x4, 3x6) to guide the Chennai Super Kings to a 55- run win over the Kolkata Knight Riders in match eight of the IPL 2010 at Eden Gardens here today.
It was the first win for M.S. Dhoni’s - Chennai Super Kings who had lost to the Deccan Chargers earlier on Sunday. The win for Chennai put a break on the Kolkata Knight Riders two match winning streak as they had notched wins against the Deccan Chargers and Bangalore Royal Challengers. At the end of the match eight, Delhi Daredevils were at the top of the league points table have beaten the Rajasthan Royals in Ahmedabad.
The Kolkata Knight Riders had a nightmare of a start with Chennai Super Kings’ Albie Morkel striking with with only the second ball of the first over to have opener Brad Hodge caught at mid-wicket for nought. Manpreet Gony then bowled Manoj Tiwary after the opener had hit two successive boundaries. Kolkata Knight Riders were 8 for 2 in 1.3 overs. Top scorer Wriddhiman Saha, dropped at two, cracked 13-ball 22 before being castled by Lakhsmipathy Balaji. The Chennai Super Kings medium-pacer took his second wicket when he had Owais Shah caught nicely by wicketkeeper captain MS Dhoni to reduce Kolkata Knight Riders to 46 for 4.
It was a one sided trek all uphill for the Kolkata Knight Riders from then as they lost their way and wickets at regular intervals. Justin Kemp then struck in succession to send back skipper Sourav Ganguly (11), Angelo Mathews and Rohan Gavaskar. The Kolkata Knight Riders were finally all out at 109 in 19.2 overs
Earlier in the day it was M.S. Dhoni that came up with a super knock of 33-ball 66 (6x4, 3x6) and his unbeaten 109 runs partnership in 10.5 overs with S Badrinath (43, 33 balls, 3x4), which helped lift the Chennai Super Kings to a respectable 164/3 in 20 overs after being 55 for 3 in 9.1 overs at one stage.
Chennai Super Kings started on a shaky note. The burly left-hander Mathew Hayden was dismissed in the fourth over by Ishant Sharma. New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond, who came in place of South African swing bowler Charl Langeveldt, was impressive in the first two overs. Laxmi Ratan Shukla castled Murali Vijay for 33 and when Suresh Raina yorked himself, Chennai Super Kings were in a spot of bother.
But thereafter captain cool Dhoni and Badrinath repaired the damage with some sensible batting. Dhoni smashed Shukla for 14 runs in an over before the Chennai Supers Kings ended on a challenging total. Left-arm spinner Murali Kartik bowled the middle overs splendidly to return with figures of 4-0-21-0. Bond gave away 27 runs in the last two overs.
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