3 may 2011
Hyderabad: Shikhar Dhawan’s fighting half-century went in vain as Kolkata Knight Riders produced a clinical performance to beat a struggling Deccan Chargers by 20 runs in an Indian Premier League match here today.
Chasing 170 for victory, Deccan lost their first four wickets for 70 runs before Dhawan (54 off 45) and Dwaraka Ravi Teja (30 off 22) stitched 55 runs off 31 balls to keep the home team in the loop.
However, it was not enough as Knight Riders eventually restricted Deccan to 149 for six. For KKR, Rajat Bhatia (2/26) and left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah (2/34) scalped two wickets apiece.
With this win, KKR zoomed to the top of the team standings with 12 points from nine matches while Deccan are at the seventh position with six points from as many games.
Openers — Sunny Sohal and Shikhar Dhawan — gave a racy start to Deccan chase, piling up 38 runs off the first five overs before Abdullah came up with twin blows to put a brake on the home team.
Sohal was the aggressive among the duo, hitting three fours en route to his 26 runs that came off 20 balls but in search of one too many he cut a Abdullah delivery straight to Morgan at cover point in the third ball of sixth over. A ball later, Abdullah got the vital wicket of Deccan skipper Kumar Sangakkara for a duck as he chipped one to Kallis at mid-wicket.After Abdullah, it was Rajat Bhatia who struck twice in an over to see Deccan slump to 70 four four after 11 overs. Cameron White’s misery with the bat continued as he became first of Bhatia’s victim, bowled with a gem of a slower leg-cutter.
Three balls later, Bhatia was lucky to get Daniel Christian lbw even as replays showed the batsman got an inside edge onto the pads. But Dhawan and Ravi Teja raised some hopes for Deccan with a half-century stand but with the likes of Brett Lee and Jacques Kallis in action for KKR, the asking rate eventually proved too much for the Hyderabad outfit.
Lee broke the dangerous-looking fifth-wicket partnership between Dhawan and Ravi Teja, disturbing the latter’s timber with a yorker. And then Kallis bowled Dhawan in the next over to dismiss any chances of a Deccan win.
Hyderabad: Shikhar Dhawan’s fighting half-century went in vain as Kolkata Knight Riders produced a clinical performance to beat a struggling Deccan Chargers by 20 runs in an Indian Premier League match here today.
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However, it was not enough as Knight Riders eventually restricted Deccan to 149 for six. For KKR, Rajat Bhatia (2/26) and left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah (2/34) scalped two wickets apiece.
With this win, KKR zoomed to the top of the team standings with 12 points from nine matches while Deccan are at the seventh position with six points from as many games.
Openers — Sunny Sohal and Shikhar Dhawan — gave a racy start to Deccan chase, piling up 38 runs off the first five overs before Abdullah came up with twin blows to put a brake on the home team.
Sohal was the aggressive among the duo, hitting three fours en route to his 26 runs that came off 20 balls but in search of one too many he cut a Abdullah delivery straight to Morgan at cover point in the third ball of sixth over. A ball later, Abdullah got the vital wicket of Deccan skipper Kumar Sangakkara for a duck as he chipped one to Kallis at mid-wicket.After Abdullah, it was Rajat Bhatia who struck twice in an over to see Deccan slump to 70 four four after 11 overs. Cameron White’s misery with the bat continued as he became first of Bhatia’s victim, bowled with a gem of a slower leg-cutter.
Three balls later, Bhatia was lucky to get Daniel Christian lbw even as replays showed the batsman got an inside edge onto the pads. But Dhawan and Ravi Teja raised some hopes for Deccan with a half-century stand but with the likes of Brett Lee and Jacques Kallis in action for KKR, the asking rate eventually proved too much for the Hyderabad outfit.
Lee broke the dangerous-looking fifth-wicket partnership between Dhawan and Ravi Teja, disturbing the latter’s timber with a yorker. And then Kallis bowled Dhawan in the next over to dismiss any chances of a Deccan win.
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