Showing posts with label Gautam Gambhir. Show all posts
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June 02, 2014

KKR winner of IPL7

Kolkata Knight Rider won their second IPL title in a span of three IPL’s. They were calm, focused and relaxed throughout their batting otherwise chasing a 200 runs target in finals wouldn’t be easy for them.

With these win they are set the record of most successive win in an IPL session. They had won nine successive win in one session. Gautam Gambhir has become the only captain after MS Dhoni who has two IPL title on his name.
Shahrukh Khan after his team victory
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With Batsmen like Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Manish Pandey and Yusuf Pathan, they had the fierce batting line up which can chase any score. Though their Maximum score in whole tournament was around 170 but in final they chased down 200 runs in 19.3 over’s.

Robin Uthappa was the spearhead of their batting. He was the leading runs scorer for KKR and in the tournament. He had scored 660 runs in 16 matches and won Orange Cap in this session.

Manish Pandey, though played some good innings every now and then, wasn’t in his prime form before finals. He must be save his special innings for the finals. He was played one hell of an innings in final which guided his team to the victory. He had scored 94 off 50 balls with six sixes and seven fours.

Experts throughout the tournament said that “KKR has a best bowling set up in this tournament. And KKR had proving them true all through except in final where their bowlers gone for plenty which include Sunil Narine as well. He went for more than 40 runs in his four over’s.

But just one game can’t washed away their all the good work in 15 previous games. They were sharp and crispy, and everyone played their role pretty well. Sunil Narine had missed his test match for West Indies for IPL Final but at the end his decision proved to be worthy. He finished this IPL at second Position in leading wicket takers with 21 wickets.

Morne Morkel, a Proteas fast bowler was another foreign player who had gave his excellent service to them. He was quick and sharp in Powerplay’s. Not only his bowling but also proved to be an asset for team. Indian bowlers like Piyush Chawla and Umesh Yadav was too fantastic in their roles.

After first seven games of Knight’s nobody thought that they would going to win from there. They were persisted with their theme KORBO LORBO JEETBO and finally have a trophy once again.



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May 28, 2014

KKR : A team on a Mission

"KORBO LORBO JEETBO", Kolkata Knight Rider seems like following their mantra quiet well in this session. They are fantastic in this session in all departments and they are looks like a team on a mission. 
Gautam Gambhir
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They had won seven games in a row before winning the qualifier 1 against the King XI Punjab on Wednesday. In other words, they are unbeaten in last eight games which will be booster for them in final on Sunday at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.

Kolkata's batting after initial struggle for finding a right opening combination and their skipper Gautam Gambhir's poor show in first few games, came out very strongly. New opening partner of skipper seems to be the reason for this change. Robin Uthappa is in good touch and his performance in last ten games says it all. He has scored 40+ score in all ten games and a total of 665 in 15 games. With that score in his kitty he is also a Orange cap holder.

Middle order which comprises of players like Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan and Ryan ten Doeschate is also playing their parts really well. How can one forget the innings of Yusuf Pathan against Sun Riser Hyderbad, which help them to finish at second spot in league stage and allow them to play in home conditions.

May be in fielding they are not as brilliant as others team but players like Ryan ten Doeschate, Chris Lynn and Morne Morkel are always there among the top catches list of this session.

About Bowling!! What one can say about a bowling line up which has Sunil Narine and Morne Morkel in it. If one says that KKR has a best bowling line up in this year’s IPL,then he is just so right!! Three spinners, in which, one is mystery spinner(Sunil Narine), Second is left arm, who is also known as world’s top all rounder (Shakib Al Hasan) and third is leg spinner with effective googly (Piyush Chawla). Two Seamers with 140 Kmph speed and one of them is world’s leading fast bowler (Morne Morkel). You do not want any better than that in T20 cricket.

One Important reason for their success is that they keep things simple, for which a lot of credit goes to Skipper Gambhir. They are playing with simple strategy of giving bowls to their wicket taking bowlers at crucial points in a game.

In powerplay’s, Morkel bowls 3 overs and Narine one over. One over of Narine and Morkel in middle overs. Two overs of Narine in the depth overs. That what they are doing in almost all the game, they had won.

With all this armory in their teams they are the force to beat in Final.


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