Related Link : DLF Indian Premier League 2007/08
Venue : M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore (Day/Night)
Toss : Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : Asad Rauf (Pak) and Rudi Koertzen (SA)
Match Result : Kolkata Knight Riders won by 140 runs
Man of the Match : Brendon McCullum
Kolkata Knight Riders (20 Overs Maximum)
Sourav Ganguly (C) c Kallis b Zaheer Khan 10 (12) 2 ‘4s’
Brendon McCullum not out 158 (73) 10 ‘4s’ 13 ‘6s’
Ricky Ponting c Praveen Kumar b Kallis 20 (20) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
David Hussey c White b Noffke 12 (12) 1 ‘4s’
Mohammad Hafeez not out 5 (3) 1 ‘4s’
LR Shukla
Wriddaman Saha (WK)
Ajit Agarkar
Ashok Dinda
Murali Kartik
Ishant Sharma
Extras: 17 (Wides : 9 No Balls: 0 Byes: 4 Leg Byes: 4)
Total : 222/3 (Overs : 20.0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-61 (Ganguly, 5.2 ovs), 2-112 (Ponting, 12.1 ovs), 3-172 (Hussey, 17.1 ovs)
Royal Bangalore Challengers Bowling
Praveen Kumar 4-0-38-0 (1w)
Zaheer Khan 4-0-38-1
Noffke 4-0-40-1 (1w)
Kallis 4-0-48-1 (1w)
Joshi 3-0-26-0
White 1-0-24-0 (1w)
Bangalore Royal Challengers (Target : 223 from 20 Overs)
Rahul Dravid (C) b Ishant Sharma 2 (3)
Wasim Jaffer c Ponting b Dinda 6 (16)
Virat Kohli b Dinda 1 (5)
Jacques Kallis c Kartik b Agarkar 8 (7) 1 ‘6s’
Cameron White c Saha b Agarkar 6 (10)
Mark Boucher (WK) c Kartik b Ganguly 7 (9) 1 ‘4s’
Balachandra Akhil c Ponting b Agarkar 0 (2)
Ashley Noffke run out (Agarkar/Saha) 9 (10) 1 ‘4s’
Praveen Kumar not out 18 (15) 1 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Zaheer Khan b Ganguly 3 (8)
Sunil Joshi c McCullum b Shukla 3 (6)
Extras: 19 (Wides : 11 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 8)
Total : 82 all out (Overs : 15.1)
Fall of Wickets: 1-4 (Dravid, 1.1 ovs), 2-9 (Kohli, 2.2 ovs), 3-24 (Kallis, 4.5 ovs), 4-24 (Jaffer, 5.2 ovs), 5-38 (Boucher, 7.5 ovs), 6-38 (Akhil, 8.2 ovs), 7-43 (White, 8.6 ovs), 8-57 (Noffke, 11.1 ovs), 9-70 (Khan, 13.1 ovs), 10-82 (Joshi, 15.1 ovs)
Kolkata Knight Riders Bowling
Dinda 3-0-9-2 (2w)
Ishant Sharma 3-0-7-1 (1w)
Agarkar 4-0-25-3 (4w)
Ganguly 4-0-21-2 (1w)
Shukla 1.1-0-12-1 (2w)