Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 22: Kolkata Knight Riders v Kochi Tuskers Kerala"

Hello and welcome to the 22nd Match of IPL 2011 season between Kolkata Knight Riders and Kochi Tuskers Kerala. This IPL has been pretty insteresting with each passing day. All teams have won their respective games on their day. Lets see who wins this battle today.

Kolkata knight riders won the toss and elected to field first. For Kochi Tuskers Kerala McCullum and Jayawardene gave a great start. They scored 49 of 7 overs, when McCullum was the first wicket of Sakib Al Hasan. Jayawardene too perish in the next over to yousuf pathan and Kochi Tuskers Kerala kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. Jadeja made a quick fire 29 to revive the Kochi Tuskers Kerala score. Kochi Tuskers Kerala scored a defendable score of 132 of their 20 overs. For Kochi Tuskers Kerala Jadega made 29, Jayawardene Made 25 and McCullum 23, for Kolkata Knight Riders Yousuf Pathan and Sakib Al Hasan took 3 wickets each.

In reply Kolkata Knight Riders lost Kallis and Gambhir early to Vinay kumar and RP Singh of Kochi Tuskers Kerala respectively. Apart from MK Tiwary Kilkata Knight Riders kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. Tiway made a crucial knowck of 46 but coudnt get Kolkata Knight Riders across the line. Good Captaincy, fielding and tight bowling won the match for Kochi Tuskers Kerala. Kochi Tuskers Kerala won the match by 6 runs. For Kolkatta Knight Riders MK Tiwary made a fighting knock of 46, for Kochi Tuskers Kerala RP Singh and RA Jadeja took 2 wickets a piece.


Man of the Match is DPMD Jayawardene for his crucial 25 runs and amazing captaincy.

Score : Kochi Tuskers Kerala 132 for 7 (RA Jadeja 29, DPMD Jayawardene 25, Yusuf Pathan 3-20, Shakib Al Hasan 3-28) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 126 for 9 (MK Tiwary 46, RP Singh 2-25, RA Jadeja 2-25) by six runs