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KKR crush Ganguly’s Pune

PTI, Kolkata
Kolkata Knight Riders prevailed in their prestige fight against Pune ; Warriors, defeating the
Sourav Ganguly-led side by seven runs in a thrilling Indian Premier League match at the Eden Gardens yesterday.
Dubbed as the 'Battle Royale' of this edition of IPL, Gautam Gambhir and his boys held their nerves as the Pune batting again faltered at the death to slump to their fifth consecutive defeat. It could also have been a match between the two Bangladesh players in the IPL, Kolkata's Shakib Al Hasan and Pune's Tamim Iqbal, but it was not to be as Shakib has played only three matches so far this season while Tamim is yet to make his IPL debut.
The loss means Pune has put paid to any hopes whatsoever of making it to the playoffs, while KKR have consolidated their second position in the standings
with 15 points from 11 outings.
Chasing 151 to win, KKR restricted Pune to 143 for eight with Ganguly the top-scorer with 36 off 35 balls during which he hit four boundaries and a lone six.
Marchant De Lange, who replaced an injured Brett Lee, gave KKR a perfect start with two wickets -- Michael Clarke and Robin Uthappa — from his first two overs.
Reduced to 45/2 in the power play, Pune found themselves in desparate need of a parternship when Iqbal Abdulla and Jacques Kallis ensured further slide for Ganguly's men as Pune recorded yet another top-order failure.
Kolkata had Pune reeling at 55 for five at one stage before Ganguly and Angelo Mathews's 73-run sixth wicket partnership which came off just 56 balls turned the match in the visitors favour.
Mathews gave Ganguly good support from the other end as the duo stitched 73 runs for the sixth wicket to
keep Pune in the hunt.
But Ganguly's dismissal soon after he hit a six over long on off Rajat Bhatia in the 18th over swung the match in Pune's favour. With 12 needed from last three balls, Mathews perished in search of a big one, brilliantly caught by Manoj Tiwary at long on to virtually pocket the match for Kolkata.
Earlier, Kolkata frittered away a rollicking start as Pune hit back in the last 10 overs to restrict the hosts to 150 forfive at a jam-packed Eden Gardens.
Opting to bat, Kolkata skipper Gautam Gambhir played yet another captain's knock with his third consecutive half-century, a 36-ball 55, and added 113 runs with Brendon McCullum, who scored 42 off 43 balls.
In the first half of the KKR innings, erratic bowling by Pune -- they leaked nine wides inside the powerplay -- helped the cause of the hosts as they raced to 68 for no loss in the first six overs. Pune were under the pump when Gambhir and McCullum were batting but once the left-hander fell to Murali Karthik and McCullum became a victim of Sri Lankan paceman Mathews, the complexion of the match changed.
Kolkata's star-studded middle-order flopped yet again, scoring just 29 runs in the last five overs and lost three wickets.
SCORES IN BRIEF
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS: 150 for 5 (Gambhir 56, McCullum 42; Mathews 2-17, Kumar 2-26)
PUNE WARRIORS INDIA: 143 for 8 (Ganguly 36, Mathews 35; de Lange 3-34, Narine 1-13, Kallis 1-16) Result: Kolkata Knight Riders win by 7 runs.