KTK made two changes to their playing eleven – Raiphi Gomez and Vinay Kumar made way for Padmanabhan Prasanth and Gnaneswara Rao.
RR made half-a-dozen changes to their playing eleven – Johan Botha, Ross
Taylor, Abhishek Raut, Dishant Yagnik, Siddharth Trivedi and Pankaj Singh made
way for Faiz Fazal, Pinal Shah, Jacob Oram, Ankeet Chavan, Shaun Tait and Nayan
Doshi.
On winning the toss, Mahela Jayawardene, KTK’s skipper, chose to field.
The first Powerplay of RR’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay
– was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 32, and lost three
wickets.
Fazal, whose 15-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 16. Three
overs into the match, he was trapped leg before wicket by Rudra Pratap Singh,
who broke the 18-run stand.
The second-wicket pair D(rav)idn’t get off the mark. Rahul, who faced four
balls, scored a run. The next ball, he was caught by Owais Shah off the bowling
of Sreesanth.
Ajinkya Rahane, whose eight-ball innings included a boundary, scored
eight. Thirteen balls later, Sreesanth broke the eight-run stand.
RR scored 50 off 7.5 overs (47 balls). KTK had conceded a couple of extras
at that point.
Shane Watson, whose 13-ball innings included three sixes, scored 20.
Twenty-one balls after Rahane’s dismissal, Prasanth Parameswaran broke the
37-run stand.
Pinal, whose run-a-ball innings included a boundary, scored five. Five
balls later, he was caught by Rao. Brad Hodge, the player of the match, broke
the run-a-ball stand.
Oram, who faced three balls, didn’t get off the mark. Ten balls later,
Hodge broke the nine-run stand.
Shane Warne, RR’s skipper, faced nine balls, scoring a couple. Eleven
balls later, Hodge broke the four-run stand.
The eighth-wicket pair put on a run. Chavan, who faced three balls,
scored a run. Four balls later, Ravindra Jadeja and Hodge ran him out.
Ashok Menaria, whose 28-ball innings included three boundaries and a
six, scored 31. Nine balls later, he was caught by Shah. Needless to say, Hodge
was in seventh heaven.
Tait, whose nine-ball innings included a boundary, scored unbea‘ten’.
Doshi, who faced 13 balls, didn’t get off the mark. Nineteen balls
later, he was caught by Jayawardene. Parameswaran broke the eight-run stand.
KTK eventually conceded three extras. RR were bundled out for 97 off
18.3 overs.
Padmanabhan, Rao and Jadeja bowled a wicketless over apiece. They
conceded 13, seven, and five, respectively.
Rudra Pratap, who bowled four overs, conceded 17. He picked up a wicket.
Parameswaran, who bowled 3.3 overs, conceded 20. He picked up a couple
of wickets, as did Sreesanth, who bowled four overs, conceding 16.
Hodge, who bowled four overs, conceded 13. He picked up four scalps.
The first Powerplay of KTK’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay
– was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 87, and lost a couple
of wickets.
Jayawardene, whose three-ball innings included a boundary, scored
half-a-dozen. Nine balls into the chase, he was caught by Chavan. Oram broke
the 26-run stand.
Brendon McCullum, whose 12-ball innings included a boundary and four
sixes, scored 29. Ten balls later, Doshi broke the 19-run stand.
KTK scored 50 off 3.5 overs (25 balls). RR had conceded four extras at
that point.
The third-wicket pair put on 50 off 23 balls. While Parthiv Patel’s
contribution to the partnership was 14, Hodge’s contribution to it was 33.
Extras’ contribution to the partnership was five.
Patel, whose 14-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, eventually
scored 21. He was unbeaten, as was Hodge, who eventually scored 33. His 17-ball
innings included five boundaries and a couple of sixes.
RR eventually conceded nine extras. KTK, who scored 98 for the loss of a
couple of wickets off 7.2 overs, won by eight wickets with 76 balls to spare.
Chavan, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded 10.
Tait, who bowled three wicketless overs, conceded 36.
Doshi, who bowled eight balls, conceded 15. He picked up a wicket, as
did Oram, who bowled a couple of overs, conceding 32.
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