Kolkata XI vs Punjab XI 14th T20 at Pune, 18 Apr, 2015

Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to field
Punjab XI 155/9 (20)
Kolkata XI 159/6 (17.5)
Kolkata Knight Riders won by 4 wickets
Man of the Match: Andre Russell
  • PP Chawla 4 * (1)
  • YK Pathan 28 * (24)

Over 0.5 Sandeep Sharma bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, 1 run, stays back in the crease and taps it gently towards silly-point.

Over 1.1 K Anureet Singh bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, comes on to the front foot and defends it to the off-side.

Over 1.2 K Anureet Singh bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, 1 leg bye, gets across the line and fails to tickle it down, the ball goes off the thigh pad to backward square leg.

Over 1.5 K Anureet Singh bowls a pitched up delivery to G Gambhir, 1 run, gets forward and flicks it away through midwicket and picks up another single.

Over 2.4 Sandeep Sharma bowls it short of length to G Gambhir, 2 runs, gets forward and drives it away pass point and picks up couple of runs.

Over 2.5 Sandeep Sharma bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, gets forward and defends it back to the bowler.

Over 2.6 Sandeep Sharma bowls a back of length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, comes on to the front foot and defends it down the pitch.

Over 3.3 K Anureet Singh bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, gets forward and goes for slashes and misses

Over 3.4 K Anureet Singh bowls a pitched up delivery to G Gambhir, Boundary! Gets to the pitch of the ball and slices it over cover and the ball raced away to the boundary.

Over 3.5 K Anureet Singh bowls it short of length to G Gambhir, no runs, goes on to the back foot and tries to pull but misses.

Over 3.6 K Anureet Singh bowls a back of length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, makes room and tries to cut hard but misses

Over 5.1 MG Johnson bowls a back of length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, gets forward and defends it to the off-side.

Over 5.2 MG Johnson bowls it short of length to G Gambhir, 1 run, gets forward and taps it with soft hands towards point and sets off.

Over 6.1 NLTC Perera bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, 1 run, goes across and glances it through backward square leg.

Over 6.4 NLTC Perera bowls it short of length to G Gambhir, 1 run, makes room and cuts to deep point.

Over 7.1 Sandeep Sharma bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, gets forward and defends it towards point.

Over 7.2 Sandeep Sharma bowls a pitched up delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, gets forward, drives and picks out cover.

Over 7.3 Sandeep Sharma bowls a good length delivery to G Gambhir, no runs, comes on to the front foot and tries to swing hard but misses.

Over 7.4 Sandeep Sharma to G Gambhir, out Caught by W Saha!!  Full and angling away from the left-hander, it was way outside off stump, Gambhir reaches out to play a booming drive, but only manages to kiss it to the keeper.  Gambhir c W Saha b Sandeep Sharma 11(19)

Bailey: I am fine (on his injury). Once again, we didn't do either of the three disciplines well enough to win it. We kept losing wickets and never got any partnerships as such. We were 15-20 runs short. We missed a few run-out chances as well. It felt like that we are not getting our plans right. Full credit to Russell, and Yusuf (Pathan) too because of how he curbed his natural instinct and held one end. We will have a couple of tough games before we go to Mohali, Rajasthan and Chennai are both top of the pile and we need to perform well against them

Gambhir: I think this is the new breed of cricketers we are seeing. They are fearless, we want the players to play their own way. The credit needs to go to the entire support staff as well. We know Surya can take the game till the end, he has done brilliantly till now. We were under pressure, but we knew that if Russell and Yusuf are there till the end, we will win. He's a great lad, he's a great guy to have in the dressing room.

Andre Russell is the Man of the Match