Kolkata, March 14: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in the Indian Premier League match at the Eden Gardens here Sunday.
Chasing 136 runs for victory, Knight Riders were given a flying start by their openers Brad Hodge and Manoj Tiwary, both scoring 50 runs.
Roelof van der Merwe took two wickets for 27 for Royal Challengers.
The following is the scoreboard of an Indian Premier League match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders here Sunday:
Bangalore Royal Challengers:
Jacques Kallis not out 65
Shreevats Goswami c Sharma b Langeveldt 8
Manish Pandey b Mathews 0
Virat Kohli c Mathews b Kartik 2
Eoin Morgan b Kartik 10
Rahul Dravid b Mathews 21
Robin Uthappa c Saha b Mathews 20
Roelof van der Merwe c Hodge b Mathews 1
Praveen Kumar not out 3
Extras: (b-1, lb-2, w-1, nb-1) 5
Total: (for seven wickets in 20 overs) 135
Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Goswami, 2.6 overs), 2-17 (Pandey, 4.3), 3-20 (Kohli, 5.4), 4-35 (Morgan, 7.2), 5-73 (Dravid, 12.1), 6-110 (Uthappa, 17.3), 7-112 (van der Merwe, 17.6)
Bowling:
Charl Langeveldt 4 0 27 1
Ishant Sharma 4 0 27 0
Angelo Mathews 4 0 19 4
Murali Kartik 4 0 22 2
Brad Hodge 1 0 11 0
Sourav Ganguly 2 0 18 0
Rohan Gavaskar 1 0 8 0
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Brad Hodge c Pandey b van der Merwe 50
Manoj Tiwary c & b van der Merwe 50
Sourav Ganguly c Morgan b Kumar 23
Cheteshwar Pujara not out 5
Owais Shah not out 2
Extras: (lb-1, w-5) 6
Total: (for three wickets in 19.2 overs) 136
Fall of wickets: 1-101 (Tiwary, 11.4 overs), 2-112 (Hodge, 13.6), 3-133 (Ganguly, 18.2)
Bowling:
Praveen Kumar 4 0 16 1
Jacques Kallis 3 0 34 0
Dale Steyn 4 0 38 0
Anil Kumble 4 0 19 0
Roelof van der Merwe 4 0 27 2
Virat Kohli 0.2 0 1 0
Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to field
Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and Amiesh Saheba
TV umpire: Marais Erasmus (South Africa)
–Agencies