Match 31: DD v. KKR: Easy for DD, KKR's misfield miss match!

Winning the toss and batting first, KKR started well with van Wyk and McCullum adding 58 for the first wicket. McCullum lost the patience and took risk stepping out and playing risky shots. He created momentum from the third over by scoring 21 runs including 2 huge sixes and a four.

van Wyk scored couple of fours in the next over. McCullum departed at the end of the 7th over, caught by Nehra of Sangwan. The run rate slowed down after McCullum got out. End of 10 overs, KKR were 69 for 1.

After the break, Wyk freaked out with as he scored couple of fours in the 12th and hat-trick fours in the next. He was the top scorer with 74 with his 50 coming in 32 balls.

KKR could have seen a victory after long time if they had not missed catches. It started with skipper McCullum dropping the sitter at covers for Gambhir when he was on 21. He missed another chance to run out Gambhir in the 13th over. Dilshaed played it to covers and Gambhir started for it. McCullum picked the ball back flips it towards the stumps and it just missed it.

Gambhir was lucky when umpire did not give him out for a caught behind appeal though he walked few steps.

Gosh dropped a catch from Dilshan at fine leg. Though he picked it, he fumbled it and dropped the catch. Dilshan was on 24 and a new batsmen would have gone through pressure to score 30 from 24 balls.

With 4 runs required, one more catch was dropped in the 19th over for Gambhir. Henriques was the culprit this time!

With all these mis-fields, DD made it in the 19th over with the loss of Warner. Gambhir was unbeaten on 71 and declared man of the match!

Scoreboard:

Match # 31
Date: Tuesday May 5, 2009
Teams: Delhi Daredevils v. Kolkata Knight Riders
Captains: Gambhir and McCullum
Toss: KKR, decided to bat
Venue: Kingsmead, Durban
Result: DD won by 9 wickets with 6 balls remaining
Points: DD 2; KKR 0
Man of the Match: Gambhir off DD

Kolkata Knight Riders Innings:

Batsman	How Out	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
van Wyk	b Nehra	74	48	11	0
McCullum	c Nehra b Sangwan	35	29	1	3
Hodge	c deVilliers b Sangwan	10	19	0	0
Henriques	Not Out	30	24	2	1
Saha	Not Out	1	1	0	0
Extras	(w 3, nb 1)	4	-	-	-
Total	for 3 wkts in 20 overs	154	-	-	-

Fall of Wickets: 1-58 (McCullum, 6.6 ov), 2-98 (Hodge, 12.6 ov), 3-147 (van Wyk, 19.2 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Nannes	4	0	49	0
A Nehra	4	0	23	1
A Mishra	4	1	18	0
Sangwan	4	0	29	2
Bhatia	4	0	35	0

Delhi Daredevils Innings:

Batsman	How Out	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Gambhir	Not Out	71	57	7	0
Warner	c Henriques b Agarkar	36	23	5	1
Dilshan	Not Out	42	34	5	1
Extras	(lb 1, w 7)	8	-	-	-
Total	for 1 wkts in 19 overs	157	-	-	-

Fall of Wickets: 1-60 (Warner, 6.6 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
I Sharma	4	0	43	0
Dinda	2	0	17	0
Henriques	4	0	36	0
Hodge	2	0	18	0
Agarkar	3	0	24	1
M Karthik	4	0	18	0