IPL 6: KKR clinch first away win against Warriors

Pune - The Kolkata Knight Riders romped home to their first away win in the Indian Premier League (IPL) beating the Pune Warriors by 46 runs at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Thursday.

The Warriors succumbed to their eighth consecutive defeat after failing to achieve a target of 153, getting bowled out for 106 in 19.3 overs. Apart from opener Robin Uthappa (31) and Sri Lankan Angelo Mathews (40), all other Pune batsmen failed to even reach double figures.

Right arm pacer Lakshmipathy Balaji took 3/19, including a brilliant caught-and-bowled off the last ball of the match to take Parvez Rasool’s wicket. Left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdulla, South African Jacques Kallis and mystery spinner Sunil Narine took two wickets each while Rajat Bhatia picked up one.

The Warriors’ batting line-up completely flopped resulting in another disappointing 11th loss of the season which keeps them at the bottom of the points table.

Earlier, the visitors scored 152/6 with skipper Gautam Gambhir scoring the highest with 50 runs which included six boundaries. Coming into the match after a loss to the Mumbai Indians Tuesday, the Knights came back into the tournament with an authoritative win.

Kolkata were looking like they would end up with a score of around 130-odd runs but some big-hitting in the death overs propelled them to a 150-par score.

Dutch player Ryan ten Doeschate’s 21-ball 31, Manoj Tiwary’s unbeaten 15 and Rajat Bhatia’s unbeaten 13 off five balls took the defending champions to a challenging total.

The visitors kept losing wickets throughout their innings but managed to keep the scoreboard ticking courtesy Gambhir, who was initially anchoring the innings. After his dismissal, ten Doeschate took up his position and hammered the Pune bowlers around the ground.

Swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar proved to be most successful with three wickets from four overs giving away 25 runs while Australian Mitchell March took 2/7.

Parvez Rasool, the first player from Jammu and Kashmir to take part in the IPL, clinched a wicket that of Jacques Kallis from his four overs, giving away 23 runs.

Scorecard

Kolkata Knight Riders

Manvinder Bisla st Rawat b Kumar 12

Gautam Gambhir c Mathews b Marsh 50

Jacques Kallis c Mathews b Parvez Rasool 2

Eoin Morgan c Uthappa b Marsh 15

Ryan ten Doeschate c Upadhyay b Kumar 31

Yusuf Pathan c Rawat b Kumar 3

Manoj Tiwary not out 15

Rajat Bhatia not out 13

Extras (b 4, lb 3, w 4) 11

Total (for six wickets in 20 overs) 152

Fall of wickets: 1-45 (Bisla, 5.2 ov), 2-52 (Kallis, 6.6 ov), 3-75 (Morgan, 11.4 ov), 4-90 (Gambhir, 13.6 ov), 5-97 (Pathan, 15.4 ov), 6-135 (ten Doeschate, 18.4 ov)

Bowling:

Wayne Parnell 4-0-40-0

Krishnakant Upadhyay 2-0-19-0

Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-0-25-3

Parvez Rasool 4-0-23-1

Angelo Mathews 4-0-31-0

Mitchel Marsh 2-0-7-2

Pune Warriors

Robin Uthappa c Gambhir b Iqbal Abdulla 31

Aaron Finch b Kallis 5

Yuvraj Singh c Bisla b Balaji 1

Udit Birla b Iqbal Abdulla 7

Angelo Mathews c Tiwary b Narine 40

Mitchel Marsh c Tiwary b Bhatia 5

Mahesh Rawat c Bisla b Kallis 5

Wayne Parnell c Tiwary b Narine 5

Bhuvneshwar Kumar b Balaji 1

Parvez Rasool c & b Balaji 1

Krishnakant Upadhyay not out 1

Extras (w 3, nb 1) 4

Total (all out in 19.3 overs) 106

Fall of wickets 1-20 (Finch, 2.4), 2-23 (Yuvraj Singh, 3.3), 3-39 (Birla, 7.1), 5-78 (Marsh, 13.6), 6-95 (Mathews, 16.1), 7-103 (Rawat, 17.6), 8-103 (Parnell, 18.1), 9-105 (Kumar, 19.1), 10-106 (Parvez Rasool, 19.3)

Bowling:

Iqbal Abdulla 4-0-26-2

Lakshmipathy Balaji 3.3-0-19-3

Jacques Kallis 4-0-27-2

Sunil Narine 4-0-12-2

Ryan ten Doeschate 1-0-3-0

Rajat Bhatia 3-0-19-1

Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to bat

Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won by 46 runs

Player of the match: Gautam Gambhir (Kolkata Knight Riders)

Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pakistan) and S.Asnani

TV umpire: Simon Taufel (Australia)

Match referee: Javagal Srinath