Two days in a row, Duckworth-Lewis helped the chasing team to win by a narrow margin. In yesterday's match, Kings XI Punjab won by 6 runs.
Kings XI Wins Rain Halted Match!
In the match played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders, the severe storm halted the match for few minutes and then rain followed.
The papers started flying, the covers were flying too. Such severe was the wind storm.
Chasing 150 in 20 overs, Chennai did not lose wickets in the first 8 overs and that helped them to gain the winning points. The catch of Parthiv Patel was dropped at long leg by Dinda. It was short ball and he pulled and went straight to Dinda, who dropped the sitter. It was the 4th ball of the 8th over.
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Next ball was a boundary by Fleming, the ball pitched on the leg stump and he just flicks it. No run in the last ball.
Play was stopped after that and sure that Ganguly would not have expected it! Either the catch should have been taken or the boundary in the fifth ball should have been stopped. One of these two would have turned the match in favor of Kolkata.
At the end of the 8th over, Chennai should be at 53 for no loss, but they were 55 for no loss, thus winning by 2 runs.
Both Fleming and Patel playing sensibly. They negogiated Shoaib Akhtar and Ishanth Sharma very well. Not losing the wickets helped them to clinch the match.
The first over by Shoaib added 5 to the total, but Patel hit a good cover drive to score the first boundary. Later, in the same over, Fleming hit two continuous fours to take the score to 18 in 2 overs.
Shoaib conceeded two fours in the next over to Fleming. 4th and 5th over added just 9 runs to the total. At the end of 5 overs, Chennai were 36 for no loss.
The 6th over bowled by Agarkar added 7 runs including a boundary by Patel. The 7th over added 4 runs to take the score to 47 for no loss in 7 overs.
The 8th over bowled by Agarkar, added 7 to the total including a wide in the 2nd ball and a four of the 5th ball by Fleming. A catch was dropped on the 4th ball for Patel at fine leg by Dinda.
Earlier, winning the toss and deciding to bat first, it was another slow scoring game for Ganguly's men.
Salman Butt top scored with 73 off 54 ball with 10 fours and a six.
Hafeez was caught by Gony off Nitni for 6. Poor and irresponsible short selection for the second time by Ganguly put pressure to Kolkata. Giving himself room to slog for a six, Ganguly lost his middle stump off Nitni, giving him his second wicket. Kolkata struggling at 28 for 2 in 5 overs.
Das and Butt revived the innings by adding 86 runs for the 3rd wicket 67 balls. End of 10 overs, Kolkata were 61 for 2 with Butt on 31 and Das on 15.
Muralitharan's over proved little costly. Das and Butt hit a six each in the 12th over to take the score to 85 for 2.
Salman reached his 50 in 44 balls with 5 fours and a six.
Salmat hit 3 continuous fours of Muralitharan and provided the momentum. At the end of 16 overs, Kolkata were 114 for 2.
Dass was another hat-trick victim for Nitni. He lost his leg stump on 27 off 32 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes.
Hussey was bowled and his off stump uprooted for a duck. That was his hat-trick. End of over 17, Kolkata were 118 for 4.
Butt hit a four of the first ball of Balaji in the 18th over and got out in the next ball. He moved across and tried to scoop over fine leg, but hit fully on the boot and declared leg before.
Shukla hit a bounday over backward ponit of the last ball of the 18th over to take the score to 130 for 5.
The last two overs added 19 runs and Kolkata finished with 149 for 5.
Nitni was declared the man of the match for his wonderful spell of 4 for 21 including a hat-trick.
With this victory, Chennai registers their 7th win and stays in the top 4. Kolkata has to win their remaining to matches to keep their hopes alive.
Match 41
Venue: Kolkata
Date: May 18, 2008
Teams: Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings
Captains: Sourav Ganguly and Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders and decided to bat
Result: Chennai Super Kings won by 2 runs (D/L Method) (with 10 wickets in hand)
Man of the Match: M Ntini off Chennai Super Kings (South Africa)
Points: Chennai Super Kings-2; Kolkata Knight Riders-0
Score:
Kolkata Knight Riders 149 for 5 in 20 overs (Salman Butt 73, Mohammad Hafeez 6, SC Ganguly 2, DB Das 27, DJ Hussey 0, LR Shukla 13 Not out, WP Saha 15 not out, Extras-13(b 2, lb 7, wide 3, nb 1), M Ntini 4-0-21-4, M Gony 4-0-17-0, M Muralitharan 4-0-41-0, L Balaji 4-0-36-1, JA Morkel 4-0-25-0) lost to Chenani Super Kings (when dust storm and rain stopped play in the 8th over last ball, Chennai Super Kings should have been at 53 with the loss of no wickets) 55 for no loss in 8 overs (PA Patel 19 not out, SP Fleming 32 not out, Extras-4 (lb 1, wide 3), Shoaib Akhtar 2-0-14-0, I Sharma 2-0-16-0, AB Dinda 2-0-10-0, AB Agarkar 2-0-14-0)
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