Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 33: Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders"

Hello and Welcome to the 33rd Match of the IPL 2011 season between Delhi Daredevils and
Kolkatta Knight Riders. Delhi Daredevils are trying to come out of the bottom and improve their chances of making it to the play offs and on other side Kolkata Knight Riders wants to win and get even close to the Mumbai Indians who are at top of the table. Lets see who defeats whom and goes up in the table.

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and opted to bowl first. Kolkata Knight Riders opened the batting with JH Kallis and SP Goswami, for Delhi Daredevils IK Pathan opened the bowling. Irfan bowled with intent and went past the outside edge of both JH Kallis and SP Goswami couple of times and was tight. Other hand Delhi Daredevils M Morkel was hammered by both the Delhi Daredevils openers JH Kallis and SP Goswami. Kallis was bowled by IK Pathan and Kolkata Knight Riders started loosing wickets at regular intervals. MK Tiwary who came after the wicket of SP Goswami stood at one end and scored with intent and just because of him Kolkata Knight Riders managed to scored 148 for the loss of 7 wickets in their 20 overs. For Kolkata knight riders MK Tiwary scored 61* and SP Goswami 22, for Delhi Daradevils U Yadav took 2 and IK Pathan, M Morkel, AB Agarkar and JR Hopes took 1 wicket respectively.

In reply Delhi Daredevils opened with DA Warner and V Sehwag, for Kolkatta Knight Riders B Lee opened the bowling. Delhi Daredevils lost DA Warner early to L Balaji, but V Sehwag was hitting the ball cleanly and was looking dangerous. V Sehwag and JR Hopes where blazing away towards the target that Sehwag was out to JD Unadkat. After V Sehwags wicket Delhi Daredevils kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. For Kolkata Knight riders Iqbal Abdullah took 3 middle order wickets to tighten the screws on Delhi Daredevils. Delhi Daredevils where 17 short of the target and scored 131 for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. For Delhi Daredevils V Sehwag top scored with 34 and JR Hopes scored 25, for Kolkatta Knight riders Iqbal Abdullah took 3 and L Balaji took 2 wickets respectively.


Man of the Match is Kolkata Knight Riders MK Tiwary for his 61 runs.

Score : Kolkata Knight Riders 148 for 7 (MK Tiwary 61*, SP Goswami 22, U Yadav 2/29, IK Pathan 1/16) beat Delhi Daredevils 131 for 9 (V Sehwag 34, JR Hopes 25, Iqbal Abdulla 3/25, L Balaji 2/38) by 17 runs