Superkings defeat The Knightriders by D/L method

Ntini claims a hat-trick

The Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings DLF-IPL T20 match at the Eden Gardens came to a halt today following rain accompanied by gusty wind with a speed of 100 kmph.

In the end the visitors won by two runs via the Duckworth/Lewis method having reached 55 for no loss against a target of 53.

Chennai Super Kings were 55 for no loss after eight overs with Stephen Fleming on 32 and Parthiv Patel on 19 when the match was stopped.Kolkata Knight Riders were 46 for the loss of two wickets at this stage.

Yesterday also, Kings Eleven Punjab won the match against Delhi Daredevils through Duckworth and Lewis method.

Earlier, Salman Butt’s 54-ball 73 helped the Knight Riders set a target of 150 and the Super Kings’ opening pair of Stephen Fleming and Parthiv Patel seemed in control when the squall struck.

Meanwhile, Ntini took the third IPL hat-trick dismissing Sourav Ganguly in his third over, before taking the wickets of Debabrata Das and Australian David Hussey with successive balls.

The scores:

Kolkata Knight Riders: S. Butt lbw b Balaji 73, Md. Hafeez c Gony b Ntini 6, S. Ganguly b Ntini 2, D. Das b Ntini 27, D. Hussey b Ntini 0, L.R. Shukla (not out) 13, W. Saha (not out) 15; Extras (b-2, lb-7, w-3, nb-1): 13; Total (for five wkts. in 20 overs): 149.
Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-28, 3-114, 4-114, 5-122.

Chennai Super Kings bowling: Ntini 4-0-21-4, Gony 4-0-17-0, Muralidharan 4-0-41-0, Balaji 4-0-36-1, Morkal 4-0-25-0.

Chennai Super Kings: P. Patel (not out) 19, S. Fleming (not out) 32; Extras (lb-1, w-3): 4; Total (for no loss in eight overs): 55.

Kolkata Knight Riders bowling: Akhtar 2-0-14-0, Ishant 2-0-16-0, Dinda 2-0-10-0, Agarkar 2-0-14-0.

Chennai Super Kings won by three runs (D/L method)