Knight Riders finish on a winning note
Amazing night for the knights. Saurav Ganguly lead the team from the front in all departments. He has made sure that he is there till the end and took his team home. Ganguly’s innings of 86 from 53 balls is one of the best innings we have witnessed in IPL. He was well supported by Umar Gul in the end. Gul hit some lusty blows and swung the momentum in Kolkata’s favor. Ganguly’s sixers as always are a treat to watch. This inning is no different with six sixers. He has placed his innings beautifully. For the most part it is a chanceless innings. When he was hinting the national selectors in the earlier matches about his performance I thought he was joking. But, he is serious. He dived in the field, he bowled, looked fit and most importantly scored runs in a pressure cooker situation. It would be tough for the selectors to ignore Ganguly.
Kings XI Punjab for the first time found themselves in a losing postion in a close match. Probably close match is an understatment. It cannot get any closer than this. Their last 2 matches, they have won from the last and penultimate ball. This match went into the last over with 15 runs needed off 6 balls. They would have won this match if it is any other batsman. But, it was Saurav Ganguly with steel nerves. I am really not sure how Ganguly held his nerves. First ball was hit for six over deep square leg. Followed it up with a 2 runs and then sealed the match with another 6. With the scores leveled Ganguly took a sensible single to win the match. What this loss would mean is Punjab will end up second in the points table and might face Mumbai, Delhi or Chennai. Given a chance, Punjab wouldn’t have done anything different except for their fielding.
Umar Gul is declared man of the match for his 4 wickets and his explosive innings of 24 of 11 balls.
This weekend has witnessed some very close matches and IPL is not losing its interest. Of course, this time it is not yet another controversy but cricket. Yes, T20 is cricket. As lot of purists have acknowledged for the sheer adrenaline rush it brings to these close matches.
In another inconsequential match, Royal Challengers made sure that they will not end at the bottom of the pile and defeated Deccan Chargers. They have good momentum going into their game against Mumbai. Mumbai Indians have to fire all guns if they have to make the cut for the semi-finals. Intersting 2 days lie ahead of us for the final 2 spots.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot. Sreesanth regained the purple cap.
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Kolkata will be back next season; make no mistake about that. On super sunday we were playing for our PRIDE and I was particularly praying for DADA to fire and silence those kids who of late were talking their shirts off (for whatever that’s worth!!)…and FIRE did he!!! Boy!, the best T20 individual innings I have seen so far and very sensible, but then sensibility and DADA go hand in hand… Take care Dhoni and Co… sweets you youngthings still have a LONG way to go….
we are 2 hot we are 2 cool knight riders out of semis but they can take 5th place thts rocking