Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Daredevils by 17 runs in the 33rd T20 game of Indian Primer League, played at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium of Delhi. Batting first, the victorious side scored 148/7. The lost side can score 131 runs in specified overs with the fall of 9 wickets. Tiwary played the innings of unbeaten 61 runs. Three wickets of Iqbal Abdulla.

Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kolkata Innings

According to details the captain of host side Virnder Sehwag wins the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Kolkata Knight Riders loses its first wicket on the total of 29 when Jacques Kallis couldn’t understand the swinging delivery of Irfan Pathan and ball flies the stumps. Kallis scored 11 runs on the same number of balls. Shreevats Goswami was taken by Agarkar on 22, he made this score with the help of 4 boundaries. Captain Gautam Gambhir and Manoj Tiwary added 42 runs in the mutual partnership. Gambhir was taken by James Hopes when his score was 18. Venugopal Rao brilliantly took his catch on the mid-off.

Aggressive nature Yousaf Pathan, who scored 40 runs on 25 in the last match, failed to impress with bat this time and soon his brother Irfan Pathan made no mistake in taking his catch on the ball of Yadav. He can score just 5 runs. On the other end Tiwary continued to move on his side’s total sensibly. Yadav not given the permission to new batsman Erig Morgan to open his score account and was bowled out on the first ball he faced. Ryan ten Doeschate returned to pavilion after playing the innings of 19 runs. Brett Lee goes runout on the second ball of innings.

At the end of limited number of overs, Knight Riders posted the total of 148/7 on the scoreboard. Tiwary scored unbeaten 61 runs which he made after facing 47 balls. His innings was consists of two boundaries and 3 massive sixes. Yadav was the prominent bowler from Delhi with 2 wickets.

Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Delhi Innings

Following the target, Daredevils goes early in trouble by losing the big wicket of David Warner. Balaji clean bowled him on just 2 runs. Captain Virender Sehwag, along with James Hopes, played a bit sensible cricket and added 31 runs in mutual cooperation. Unadkat gives the breakthrough by taking the wicket of well-set Sehwag. His score was 34 which he made on 23 balls with the help of 5 boundaries and a six. Irfan Pathan failed to show himself with bat this time and was soon taken by Iqbal Abdulla.

The fourth wicket of host side fell on 75 when substitute Shakib-Al-Hasan took the catch of Travis Birt. He can score just 8 runs after playing 11 balls. In the same over, Iqbal finished the innings of Hopes and left the crease after scoring 25 runs. Just after one ball Brett Lee took the easy of new batsman Naman Ojha. Ajeet Agarkar goes runout without facing any ball in the result of a direct hit of Balaji. Nagar dismissed by Balaji on the second last ball of the innings. At the end of limited number of overs, the score of host side was 131/9.

Iqbal Abdulla was the best bowler from Knight Riders with three wickets. Balaji was the other prominent bowler, who finished the innings of three opponent players.

Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard