Kolkata Knight Riders make maiden IPL final

Pune – Kolkata Knight Riders qualified for their maiden Indian Premier league (IPl) final as they beat Delhi Daredevils by 18 runs in the first qualifier at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Tuesday.

Chasing a target of 163, Daredevils managed 144 for eight in 20 overs.

The following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier league (IPl) match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Tuesday.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Brendan McCullum c Warner b Negi 31

Gautam Gambhir run out (Venugopal Rao) 32

Jacques Kallis c Taylor b Yadav 30

Shakib Al Hasan c Ojha b Pathan 1

Yusuf Pathan not out 40

laxmi Ratan Shukla not out 24

Extras (lb 2, w 2) 4

Total (for four wickets in 20 overs) 162

Fall of wickets: 1-48 (Gambhir, 5.5 overs), 2-87 (McCullum, 12.4), 3-91 (Shakib Al Hasan, 13.4), 4-106 (Kallis, 15.6)

Bowling:

Irfan Pathan 4-0-20-1

Umesh Yadav 4-0-37-1

Morne Morkel 4-0-37-0

Varun Aaron 4-0-H-0

Pawan Negi 4-0-18-1

Delhi Daredevils:

David Warner c McCullum b Shakib Al Hasan 7

Virender Sehwag c McCullum b Balaji 10

Naman Ojha c Gambhir b Bhatia 29

Mahela Jayawardene st McCullum b Iqbal Abdulla 40

Venugopal Rao c Bhatia b Kallis 13

Pawan Negi st McCullum b Narine 14

Ross Taylor c Das b Kallis 11

Irfan Pathan not out 6

Morne Morkel c Bhatia b Narine 0

Umesh Yadav not out 1

Extras (b 4, lb 4, w 5) 13

Total (for eight wickets in 20 overs) 144

Fall of wickets: 1-24 (Warner, 1.6 overs), 2-24 (Sehwag, 2.1), 3-83 (Ojha, 10.2), 4-108 (Jayawardene, 14.4), 5-120 (Venugopal Rao, 16.5), 6-133 (Taylor, 18.5), 7-142 (Negi, 19.3), 8-142 (Morkel, 19.4)

Bowling:

lakshmipathy Balaji 2-0-11-1

Shakib Al Hasan 4-0-36-1

Jacques Kallis 4-0-24-2

Sunil Narine 4-0-24-2

Iqbal Abdulla 4-0-24-1

Rajat Bhatia 2-0-16-1

Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to bat

Result: Knight Riders won by 18 runs, qualify for final

Umpires: Billy Doctrove (West Indies) and Simon Taufel (Australia)

TV umpire: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri lanka)

Match referee: Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)