Gujarat Lions won by 4 wickets (with 10 balls remaining)
Playing Eleven:
Gujarat Lions: Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina (captain), Aaron Finch, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Ishaan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Praveen Kumar, Basil Thampi and Dhawal Kulkarni.
Gujarat Lions: Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina (captain), Aaron Finch, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Ishaan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Praveen Kumar, Basil Thampi and Dhawal Kulkarni.
Kolkata: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Manish Pandey, S Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Woakes, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Umesh Yadav and Nathan Coulter Nile.
IPL season 10, 23rd match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Lions, is being played at KKR’s homegrown Eden Garden.
The team of Kolkata Knight Riders has given target of 188 runs to win the Gujarat Lions. While batting first, losing the toss, the Kolkata team scored 187/5 in 20 overs. For Team Robin Uthappa scored 72 and Sunil Narine scored 42.
The innings of Gujarat,
In reply to the big target, Aaron Finch and Brendon McCullum gave a tremendous start to Gujarat. Both of them added 40 runs in three overs.Gujarat scored 42 runs for the first wicket, 31 runs for the second wicket and 34 runs for the fourth wicket. On one side wickets were falling, but captain on the other hand Suresh Raina’s fast batting was going on. Raina added 58 runs in 31 balls with Ravindra Jadeja for the sixth wicket and decided to win the team. For Kolkata, Kulter Nile and Kuldeep Yadav took 2-2 wickets while Chris Woakes and Umesh Yadav got 1-1. Suresh Raina was adjudged Man of the Match for his 84 runs innings. After this victory, the team of Gujarat got two points, although he is still at number seven.
In reply to the big target, Aaron Finch and Brendon McCullum gave a tremendous start to Gujarat. Both of them added 40 runs in three overs.Gujarat scored 42 runs for the first wicket, 31 runs for the second wicket and 34 runs for the fourth wicket. On one side wickets were falling, but captain on the other hand Suresh Raina’s fast batting was going on. Raina added 58 runs in 31 balls with Ravindra Jadeja for the sixth wicket and decided to win the team. For Kolkata, Kulter Nile and Kuldeep Yadav took 2-2 wickets while Chris Woakes and Umesh Yadav got 1-1. Suresh Raina was adjudged Man of the Match for his 84 runs innings. After this victory, the team of Gujarat got two points, although he is still at number seven.
SCORE BOARD
Kolkata Knight Riders 187/5 (20/20 ov)
Gujarat Lions 188/6 (18.2/20 ov)
Gujarat Lions won by 4 wickets (with 10 balls remaining)
Indian Premier League – 23rd match
Twenty20 match | 2017 season
Played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
21 April 2017 – night match (20-over match)
| Kolkata Knight Riders innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
SP Narine | c Faulkner b Raina | 42 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 247.05 |
|
G Gambhir* | c Raina b Faulkner | 33 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 117.85 |
|
RV Uthappa† | c McCullum b Kumar | 72 | 48 | 8 | 2 | 150.00 |
|
MK Pandey | b Basil Thampi | 24 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 114.28 |
| YK Pathan | not out | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 275.00 | |
|
SA Yadav | run out (McCullum/†Karthik) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | not out | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 1) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 20 overs) | 187 | (9.35 runs per over) | ||||
Did not batCR Woakes, NM Coulter-Nile, Kuldeep Yadav, UT Yadav
Fall of wickets 1-45 (Narine, 3.2 ov), 2-114 (Gambhir, 11.3 ov), 3-169 (Uthappa, 18.2 ov), 4-184 (Pandey, 19.3 ov), 5-186 (SA Yadav, 19.5 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
P Kumar | 2 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 12.00 | 4 | 5 | 0 | |
|
JP Faulkner | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 9.50 | 7 | 6 | 0 | |
|
Basil Thampi | 4 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 11.00 | 7 | 5 | 2 | |
|
SK Raina | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 5.50 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| DS Kulkarni | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 11.50 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||
| RA Jadeja | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 7.75 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||
| DR Smith | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7.00 | 2 | 1 | 0 | (1w) |
| Gujarat Lions innings (target: 188 runs from 20 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
AJ Finch | c Pandey b Coulter-Nile | 31 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 206.66 |
|
BB McCullum | c Pandey b Woakes | 33 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 194.11 |
|
SK Raina* | c Pandey b Kuldeep Yadav | 84 | 46 | 9 | 4 | 182.60 |
|
KD Karthik† | c Gambhir b Coulter-Nile | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
|
Ishan Kishan | c UT Yadav b Kuldeep Yadav | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 36.36 |
|
DR Smith | b UT Yadav | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 |
| RA Jadeja | not out | 19 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 146.15 | |
| JP Faulkner | not out | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, nb 1) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 18.2 overs) | 188 | (10.25 runs per over) | ||||
Did not batP Kumar, Basil Thampi, DS Kulkarni
Fall of wickets 1-42 (Finch, 3.3 ov), 2-73 (McCullum, 6.2 ov), 3-81 (Karthik, 7.2 ov), 4-115 (Ishan Kishan, 11.4 ov), 5-122 (Smith, 12.4 ov), 6-180 (Raina, 17.5 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shakib Al Hasan | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 10.33 | 7 | 5 | 1 | ||
| SP Narine | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 10.50 | 7 | 4 | 2 | ||
|
NM Coulter-Nile | 3.2 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 12.30 | 6 | 5 | 2 | (1nb) |
|
CR Woakes | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 10.00 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
|
Kuldeep Yadav | 4 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 8.25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | |
|
UT Yadav | 2 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 8.50 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
MATCH DETAILS
Toss – Gujarat Lions, who chose to field
Points – Gujarat Lions 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0
Points – Gujarat Lions 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0
Player of the match – SK Raina (Gujarat Lions)
