Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders (12th March 2010)

Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won by 11 runs

Deccan Chargers have won the toss and elected to field first. Kolkata Knight Riders scored 161/4 in twenty overs due to some cameo shots from Angelo Matthews & Owais Shah. Skipper Ganguly again failed with bat but impressed with his captaincy. Despite an explosive knock from Adam Adam Gilchrist, Deccan Chargers fall short of 11 runs ( 150/7) giving KKR a much needed win at the start of the tournament.

Herchelle Gibbs got the 'Best catch of the match' award while  Angelo Matthews won the MOM & maximum sixers award.

Point to be noted that in IPL2, Deccan Chargers won the title while Kolkata Knight Riders ended at the bottom of the table which held in South Africa. In the first edition of IPL, Deccan Chargers was at the bottom of the table. So, Can KKR be lucky this time?


Numbers that mattered, Match  1 (DC vs. KKR)

• 3 Number of times a side has lost first two wickets without a single run on the board in the IPL. Kolkata Knight Riders joined Delhi Daredevils (v Deccan Chargers, Centurion,2009) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (v Rajasthan Royals, Cape Town, 2009) in suffering this fate.

• 4 Chaminda Vaas became only the fourth Deccan bowler to bowl a maiden in IPL after RP Singh, Ryan Harris (2 each) and Fidel Edwards (one).

• 8 Deccan Chargers have now lost ALL 8 games they have played at their home ground in the IPL (They were the home side for this match at DY Patil Stadium)

• 8 Adam Gilchrist’s 54 was his eighth fifty-plus score in the IPL – most by any batsman. He was earlier at level with Matthew Hayden with seven scores of fifty or more.

• 10 Number of batsmen who got out caught out of a total of 11 wickets falling in the match.

• 18 Deccan Chargers were ahead of Kolkata Knight Riders for the first 18 overs, but still could not win the match!

• 80 Runs added by Kolkata Knight Riders in last 6 overs. They had added just 81 in first 14 overs!

• 130 Runs added by Owais Shah and Angelo Mathews for the unbroken fifth wicket partnership – highest partnership for this wicket in the IPL. The previous best was 95 runs recorded on two occasions. In fact there has been just one higher partnership than this in all T20 games.