Gambhir shines; KKR beat Pune

PWI made one change to their playing eleven – Rahul (Shar)made way for Parvez Rasool.

KKR made couple of changes to their playing eleven – Debabrata Das and Ryan McLaren made way for Ryan ten Doeschate and Manoj Tiwary.

On winning the toss, Gautam Gambhir, KKR’s skipper, and the player of the match, chose to bat.

The first Powerplay of KKR’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 50, and lost a wicket.

Manvinder Bisla, whose 13-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored a dozen. Thirty-two balls into the match, he was stumped by Mahesh Rawat. Bhuvneshwar Kumar broke the 45-run stand.

KKR scored 50 off half-a-dozen overs (36 balls). PWI had conceded a couple of extras at that point.

Jacques Kallis, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored a couple. Ten balls after Bisla’s dismissal, he was caught by Angelo Mathews. Needless to say, Rasool was in seventh heaven.

Morgan, whose run-a-ball (Eo)innings (Rob)included a boundary, scored 15. Twenty-eight balls later, he was caught by Uthappa. Mitchell Marsh broke the 23-run stand.  

Gambhir’s half-century – which included half-a-dozen boundaries – came off 43 balls.

He eventually faced 44 balls, failing to add to the aforementioned score. Fourteen balls after Morgan’s dismissal, he was caught by Mathews. Marsh broke the 15-run stand.

Yusuf Pathan, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored three. Ten balls later, he was caught by Rawat. Needless to say, Bhuvneshwar was in seventh heaven.

KKR scored 100 off 16.1 overs (97 balls). PWI had conceded nine extras at that point.

Ten Doeschate, whose 21-ball innings included three boundaries and a six, scored 31. Eighteen balls after Yusuf’s dismissal, he was caught by Krishnakant Upadhyay. Bhuvneshwar broke the 38-run stand.

KKR scored 150 off 19.5 overs (119 balls). PWI had conceded 11 extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Manoj, whose innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 15. He was unbea‘ten’.

Rajat Bhatia, whose five-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 13. He was unbeaten.

KKR scored 152 for the loss of half-a-dozen wickets off 20 overs.

Upadhyay, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 19. He was wicketless, as were Wayne Parnell and Mathews, who bowled four overs apiece. While the former conceded 40, the latter conceded 31.

Rasool, who bowled four overs, conceded 23. He picked up a wicket.

Marsh, who bowled a couple of overs, had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he picked up a couple of wickets.

Bhuvneshwar, who bowled four overs, conceded 25. He picked up three scalps.

The first Powerplay of PWI’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 34, and lost a couple of wickets.

Aaron, whose run-a-ball innings included a boundary, scored five. Sixteen balls into the (Fin)chase, Kallis broke the 20-run stand.

Yuvraj Singh, who faced a couple of boundaries, scored a run. Five balls (Bis)later, he was caught behind. Lakshmipathy Balaji broke the three-run stand.

Udit, whose 14-ball innings included a boundary, had no reason to be in seventh heaven – 22 (Iq)balls (Bir)later, Abdulla broke the 16-run stand.

PWI scored 50 off 10.1 overs (62 balls). KKR had conceded four extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Uthappa, whose 35-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 31. Twenty-two balls after Birla’s dismissal, he was caught by Gambhir. Abdulla broke the 14-run stand.

Marsh, who faced eight balls, scored five. Nineteen balls later, he was caught by Manoj. Bhatia broke the 25-run stand.

Mathews, whose 28-ball innings included four sixes, scored 40. Thirteen balls later, he was caught by Manoj. Sunil Narine broke the 17-run stand.  

PWI scored 100 off 17.2 overs (105 balls). KKR had conceded four extras at that point.

Rawat, who faced 11 balls, scored five. Eleven balls after Mathews’ dismissal, he was caught by Bisla. Kallis broke the eight-run stand.

The eighth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Parnell had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored five. The (Nari)next ball, he was caught by Manoj off the bowling of the West Indian.

Bhuvneshwar, who faced three balls, scored a run. Half-a-dozen balls later, Balaji broke the two-run stand.

Rasool, who faced four balls, scored a run. A couple of balls later, he was caught by Balaji, who broke the one-run stand.

Upadhyay, who faced a ball, scored a run. He was unbeaten.

PWI, who were bundled out for 106 off 19.3 overs, lost by 46 runs.

Ten Doeschate, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded three.

Bhatia, who bowled three overs, conceded 19. He picked up a wicket.

Kallis, Abdulla, and Narine bowled four overs each, picking up a couple of scalps apiece. They conceded 27, 26, and 12, respectively.

Balaji, who bowled 3.3 overs, conceded 19. He picked up three scalps.