Kolkata Knight Riders demolish Bangalore Royal Challengers - first match results
This was a collapse as none could have predicted it, and the man who had the time of his life was Shah Rukh Khan. He sang and danced through the whole show, while his team Kolkata Knight Riders went about systematically demolishing first the Bangalor team’s bowling attack, and then their batting lineup.
The man who has had the worst time of his life - Rahul Dravid, captain, Bangalore Royal Challengers. And probably Vijay Mallya, the team owner.
Brendan McCullum put on the show of his life when he attacked with fours and sixes, ending with the best Twenty20 score ever. Compare that to Bangalore Challengers, where no one even managed to cross into the double digits. Team captain Sourav Ganguly and teammate Ricky Ponting were barely noticed as McCullum’s onslaught was on.
| Bangalore | 58-8 (11.4) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| *R Dravid | b Sharma | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.67 | |
| W Jaffer | c Ponting b Dinda | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| V Kohli | b Shukla | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| J Kallis | c Kartik b Agarkar | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 114.29 | |
| C White | cSaha b Agarkar | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| M Boucher | c Kartik b Ganguly | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 77.78 | |
| B Akhil | c Ponting b Agarkar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| A Noffke | run out (Agarkar) | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.00 | |
| P Kumar | not out | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| Zaheer Khan | not out | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
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| Extras: 12 ( b:0 lb:6 nb:0 w:6) | |||||||
| Total: 58-8 (11.4) | Curr. RR: 4.97 | Req. RR: 19.80 |
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| FOW: *R Dravid (4-1, 1.1), V Kohli (9-2, 2.2), J Kallis (24-3, 4.5), W Jaffer (24-4, 5.2), M Boucher (38-5, 7.5), B Akhil (38-6, 8.2), C White (43-7, 9), A Noffke (56-8, 11.1) |
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| Kolkata | O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | RPO | |
| L Shukla | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.00 | |
| I Sharma | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 | |
| A Dinda | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 | |
| A Agarkar | 4 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6.25 | |
| *SC Ganguly | 2.4 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5.25 | |
Rahul Dravid, from the beginning, looked nervous - but the he always looks nervous. He was scalped by Ishant Sharma who seemed to enjoy great camaraderie with his arch enemy from Australia, Ricky Ponting. Agarkar too put on a spectacular performance.
Between these two, the demolition of the Bangalore Royal Challengers was complete.
All is not lost, thankfully it is a league, and there are more matches to come for the Bangalore Royal Challengers. Great show today, and great start, Kolkata!