IPL: Kolkata Knight Riders V Deccan Chargers, 4th Match
Kolkata Knight Riders won by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)
Played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on 20 April 2008 - day/night (20-over match)
Deccan Chargers:
Fall Of Wickets
1/21 (Venugopal Rao, 3.2 ov.), 2/22 (VVS Laxman, 4.3 ov.), 3/47 (Adam Gilchrist, 8.1 ov.), 4/47 (Rohit Sharma, 8.4 ov.), 5/58 (Scott Styris, 11.4 ov.), 6/71 (Arjun Yadav, 14.3 ov.), 7/104 (Andrew Symonds, 17.4 ov.), 8/105 (Chaminda Vaas, 17.6 ov.), 9/110 (Sanjay Bangar, 18.3 ov.), 10/110 (Pragyan Ojha, 18.4 ov.)
Total (all out; 18.4 overs) 110(5.89 runs per over)
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Fall Of Wickets
1/6 (Brendon McCullum, 1.2 ov.), 2/16 (Ricky Ponting, 2.1 ov.), 3/21 (Prasanta Saha, 4.2 ov.), 4/68 (Sourav Ganguly, 12.6 ov.), 5/88 (Mohammad Hafeez, 16.3 ov.)
Total (5 wickets; 19 overs) 112(5.89 runs per over)
DJ Hussey was awarded the Man of the match.
Umpires: BF Bowden (New Zealand), K Hariharan (India)
Third umpire: Asad Rauf (Pakistan)
Referee: FM Engineer (India)
Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to bat
The fourth match of the DLF Indian Premiere League (IPL) was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers in Eden Garden of Kolkata. The match was won by Kolkata Knight Riders by 5 wickets. The match was full of drama.
The toss was won by Deccan chargers and they decided to bat first. They made 110 runs in 18.4 overs. The pitch was not at all supporting the batsman. Gilchrist made 23 runs, along with 32 by Symonds. Other main contributors for Deccan chargers are Venugopal Rao who made 14, Sanjay Bangar who made 14, and AS Yadav who made 10 runs.
Murali Kartik took 3 wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders. Ajit Agarkar took 2 wickets, and Dinda, Ishant Sharma, M Hafeez and Hussey took one wicket each.
Replying to 110 of Deccan chargers Kolkata Knight Riders made 112 runs in 19 Overs and won the match by 5 wickets. For KKR Hussey made 38 runs, skipper Ganguly made 14 along with 13 by Hafeez, and 10 by WP Saha.
There was a time when electricity supply to the Eden Garden got disrupted and it stopped the match for some time. That time the match was at a tie position. When light again came then play resumed again.