Kolkata XI vs Hyderabad XI 38th T20 at Kolkata, 04 May, 2015

Toss: Sunrisers Hyderabad, who chose to bowl first
Kolkata XI 167/7 (20)
Hyderabad XI 132/9 (20)
Kolkata Knight Riders won by 35 runs
Man of the Match: Umesh Yadav
  • Dale Steyn 1 * (1)
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar 11 * (4)

Over 1.1Andre Russell bowls short and wide to S Dhawan, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Boundary!

Over 1.2Andre Russell bowls short and wide to S Dhawan, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Single

Over 1.3Andre Russell bowls good length delivery to MC Henriques, gets forward and defends it towards silly point.No runs

Over 1.4Andre Russell bowls half volley to MC Henriques, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.Boundary!

Over 1.5Andre Russell bowls good length delivery to MC Henriques, gets forward and defends it towards silly point.No runs

Over 1.6Andre Russell bowls short of length delivery to MC Henriques, gets onto the frontfoot and drives it straight to point.No runs

Over 19.1 Andre Russell bowls a good length delivery to PS Kumar, no runs, gets forward and goes for a big heave on the on-side but misses.

Over 19.2 Andre Russell bowls it short of length to PS Kumar, no runs, backs away and looks to pull it hard, but fails to connect yet again.

Over 19.3 Andre Russell bowls it short of length to PS Kumar, no runs, gets forward and tries to reaches out but gets beaten.

Over 19.4 Andre Russell to PS Kumarout Caught by U Yadav!! Short delivery outside off, Praveen was looking to ramp it over the keeper but can only hit it high in the air. Short third man moves to his left and takes a simple catch. P Kumar c U Yadav b A Russell 12(16)

Over 19.5 Andre Russell bowls a pitched up delivery to DW Steyn, 1 run, gets forward and drives it down to long-on.

Over 19.6 Andre Russell bowls a pitched up delivery to B Sharma, no runs, gets to the pitch of the ball and goes for a big slog and fails to connect.

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 35 runs

Warner: We wanted to keep them under 150-160, but they managed to acore 167. However, when you lose so many wickets under the first 10 overs, it is hard to come back. Their spinners bowled really well during the middle overs. Our next few games are on good wickets. Our bowlers need to step up there and hopefully, we can start well with the bat there.

Gambhir: It was a professional effort after they had put us in. 160-165 on this wicket was a very good total. Everyone chipped in and it was very satisfying to see the guys hit the ball well. We have got Russell, if he would have fired we would have got 180 odd. The spinners did extremely well out there. Umesh got us off to a great start with those two wickets in the over. We bat really deep and it was a collective decision to go deep batting wise. We knew we could control the game with three spinners and we did do well. We have been unlucky to play one 12-over and one 10-over game. We would ideally want to play a full 40-over game everytime

Umesh Yadav is the Man of the Match