{"id":4497,"date":"2012-04-07T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2012-04-07T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:32:28","slug":"ipl-delhi-daredevils-defeat-kolkata-knight-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=4497","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Delhi Daredevils defeat Kolkata Knight Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/delhi_daredevils.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPL: Delhi Daredevils defeat Kolkata Knight Riders\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Kolkata: <\/strong>When Iqbal Abdulla took a running catch of Delhi  Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag off Rajat Bhatia in the eighth over  with Delhi score still reading 57, it somehow brought Kolkata Knight  Riders back into the match. But Viru\u2019s move earlier to bring in Irfan  Pathan at No 3 proved to be a master stroke as the left-hander played an  astonishing and flawless innings of 42 off 30 balls that steered Delhi  to an eight-wicket with five balls to spare in the rain-truncated  12-over match against the hosts at Eden gardens here on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a target of 97, Delhi got off to a fantastic start as  Finch and Sehwag added 49 runs off 38 balls with Finch (30 off 27 balls)  doing most of the damage. Kallis bowled out Finch in the seventh over  and six balls later, Sehwag was caught brilliantly by Abdullah and that  inspired the Riders to put in that extra efforts to take the attack back  to the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>But Irfan Pathan was in no mood to let the  match slip from Daredevil\u2019s grasp and played with authority. The  left-hander changed the tide in his team\u2019s favour by hitting three lofty  sixes and his 40 runs helped Delhi to start their campaign with a win.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier,  Kolkata Knight Riders lost six wickets in six overs and that in itself  told the sorry state of its batting performance on its home ground after  Delhi Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag, who won the toss, decided to  field first.\u00a0 Though in-form Laxmi Ratan Shukla smashed a quick-fire 26  off 17 balls, but his 31-run seventh wicket partnership with Rajat  Bhatia could only take KKR to 97 runs for 9 in the stipulated overs.<\/p>\n<p>Mornie  Morkel proved to be the wrecker-in-chief for the Delhi team as he not  only took three wickets but also bowled miserly, giving away just 18  runs in three overs. Morkel was at his best as he scalped the prized  wickets of Jacques Kallis (4), skipper Gautam Gambhir (16) and Manoj  Tiwary (0) and that never let the Riders to unleash their prowess  against the Daredevils.\u00a0 Umesh Yadav too came in good on the occasion as  he took two wickets for 9 in two overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/delhi_daredevils.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPL: Delhi Daredevils defeat Kolkata Knight Riders\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Kolkata: <\/strong>When Iqbal Abdulla took a running catch of Delhi  Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag off Rajat Bhatia in the eighth over  with Delhi score still reading 57, it somehow brought Kolkata Knight  Riders back into the match. But Viru\u2019s move earlier to bring in Irfan  Pathan at No 3 proved to be a master stroke as the left-hander played an  astonishing and flawless innings of 42 off 30 balls that steered Delhi  to an eight-wicket with five balls to spare in the rain-truncated  12-over match against the hosts at Eden gardens here on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[664,693,3473,725,3043,1796,3474,1232,557],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ipl-5-2012","tag-delhi-daredevils","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-iqbal-abdulla","tag-irfan-pathan","tag-kolkata-knight-riders","tag-laxmi-ratan-shukla","tag-mornie-morkel","tag-rajat-bhatia","tag-virender-sehwag"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IPL: Delhi Daredevils defeat Kolkata Knight Riders - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=4497\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IPL: Delhi Daredevils defeat Kolkata Knight Riders - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kolkata: When Iqbal Abdulla took a running catch of Delhi Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag off Rajat Bhatia in the eighth over with Delhi score still reading 57, it somehow brought Kolkata Knight Riders back into the match. 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