SKIPPER ADAM Gilchrist's 35-ball 54 went in vain as defending champions Deccan Chargers suffered a 11-run defeat at the hands of Kolkata Knight Riders in the opening match of the 3rd edition of Indian Premier League on Friday.
Earlier, KKR was put into bat by DC captain Adam Gilchrist. And they scored 161 in the given 20 overs. Andrew Symonds was the 4th wicket to fall as Deccan Chargers were 116/4 in 14.1 overs.
They needed 46 off 35 more balls. After Angelo Mathews 65 and Owais Shah 58 struck unbeaten half-centuries to rescue Knight Riders from a dismal start and steered them to a fighting 161 for four, the Sourav Ganguly-led side restricted Deccan to 150 for seven at the floodlit DY Patil Stadium.From 99 for two at the fall of Gilchrist, who played a typically brilliant innings, the defending champions lost wickets rugularly and with that the match too as the other batsmen were not up to the task.
Angelo Mathews got the Man of the Match award for his all-round performance in the IPL 2010 match KKR vs DC IPL 2010 held at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. Angelo Mathews has scored 65 runs in 46 balls with 5 fours and 4 sixes. His strike rate was 141.30. Mathews reached his half-century off only 28 balls.
The cricket has got bigger and better and with the new season of the Indian Premier League 2010, which will start from the 12th of March.
The IPL 2010 season 3 will kick-start with a match between the defending champions Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai. Australia’s Adam Gilchrist will lead the Deccan Chargers. And Sourav Ganguly will lead Sharukh Khan’s team Kolkata Knight Riders.
The Squad of two teams :
Deccan chargers :AC Gilchrist, VVS Laxman, MR Marsh, MD Mishra, PP Ojha, DB Ravi Teja, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, RG Sharma, RP Singh, Y Venugopal Rao, AS YadavA Ashish Reddy, Anirudh Singh, DR Smith, TL Suman, B Sumanth, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris
Kolkata Knight Riders :SC Ganguly, VR Aaron, OA Shah, I Sharma, LR Shukla, MK Tiwary, G Vignesh, AB Agarkar, HH Khadiwale, CK Langeveldt, BB McCullum†, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, CR Pathak, AB Dinda, Eklak Ahmid, RS Gavaskar, CH Gayle, BJ Hodge, Iqbal Abdulla, M Kartik, CA Pujara, WP Saha.
Kolkata Knight Riders – 161/4 Owais Shah 58, Angelo Mathews
Deccan Chargers – 150/7 – Adam Gilchrist 54, Laxman 22, Herschelle Gibbs 20
Source : Merinews
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