Gautam Gambhir played a captain’s knock with an unbeaten 54 in 46 balls with seven fours,to guide Kolkata Knight Riders to a Comprehensive seven-wicket victory over the Pune Warriors. Manoj Tiwary scored 24.Yusuf Pathan took two wickets for 23 while Shakib Al Hasan grabbed two for 16.
Earlier,Warriors posted a total of 118 for seven.Captain Yuvraj Singh was the top scorer who made 24 in 26 balls.Lakshmipathy Balaji picked up two for seven from one over.
The Chennai Super Kings qualified for the play-offs with their seventh win in a row at home,beating the Kochi Tuskers Kerala by 11 runs.
Chennai scored 152 for five,thanks to Wriddhaman Sahaa who 46 not out in 33 balls,hitting one four and three sixes.Michael Hussey scored 32 in 37 balls.
In Reply,Kochi could manage to reach 141 for five.Brendon McCullum made a flashy 33 in 37 balls. Brad Hodge remained an unbeaten 51 in 42 balls,hitting three fours and two sixes .
Adam Gilchrist hammered a century making 106 runs off only 55 balls, including eight fours and nine sixes-his second in IPL as the Kings XI Punjab registered a huge 111-run victory over the Royal Challengers Bangalore at mountainous Dharamsala.Shaun Marsh smashed 79 runs off 49 balls,hitting seven fours and five sixes.Johan van der Wath stroked a quick 30 runs, hitting three sixes and three fours in the later stage to
help Kings XI to post a giant total of 232 runs.Chasing a huge total,the Royal Challengers Bangalore were dismissed on just 121.AB de Villiers top scored with 34 runs off 27 balls, with three fours and one six.
The Deccan Chargers End Pune's Play-Off Challenge beating them by 6 wickets in Mumbai.Sunny Sohal smacked 34 and Shikhar Dhawan made 28 for Deccan Chargers.
Batting first, Pune were restricted to 136 for nine by Deccan Chargers.Mitchell Marsh stroked 37 in 28 balls including three sixes.Daniel Christian, Ojha and Mishra all took two wickets.
Brad Hodge took four wickets and scored an unbeaten 33 to guide the Kochi Tuskers Kerala to an eight-wicket victory over the Rajasthan Royals.Brendon McCullum stroked 29 in just 12 balls,including one four and four big sixes.
Earlier,The Royals were dismissed for just 97 in 18.3 overs.Ashok Menaria was the top scorer with 30 runs,hitting three boundaries and one six.Kerala achieved their target in just 7.2 overs.Brad Hodge took 4 for 13 in his four overs, while Sreesanth and Parammeswaran took two wickets each.
Paul Valthaty hammered 62 runs off 50 balls, with six fours and three sixes to guide the Kings XI to a 29-run victory over the Delhi Daredevils at cool and beautiful Dharamsala. Marsh smashed 46 runs off 28 balls, including five fours and three sixes.
Dinesh Karthik stroked vital 27 off 19 balls to help Kings XI to finish at 170 for six from their 20 overs.In reply,from Delhi Daredevils,David Warner and Naman Ojha put on 52 for the first wicket.But after that they lost the wickets regularly and Delhi was reduced to Delhi had been reduced to 141 for eight thanks to Piyush Chawla who took three wickets.
Ishant Sharma took two wickets to help the Deccan Chargers beat the Mumbai Indians by 10 runs at the Wankhede Stadium.
Earlier,Deccan Chargers made 135 for six.Sunny Sohal made 20.Sangakkara and Shikhar Dhawan both scored 27 runs each.Dhawan hit two fours and one six.Dhawal Kulkarni returned with figures of three for 26.
Mumbai managed to score 125 for eight,despite some good batting in the later stage by Kieron Pollard and Harbhajan Singh. Sachin Tendulkar top scored for Mumbai with 37 in 42 balls.Anand Rajan took three wickets for 27.
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Chris Gayle hammered a quickfire 38 in 12 balls,hitting six fours and two powerful sixes to post a victory for Bangalore beating the by four wickets in a rain-shortened match to fix their place in the play-offs.
Earlier,Kolkata scored 89 at the cost of 3 wickets in 13 overs with the help of a fine knock of 36 in 24 balls from Yusuf Pathan,hitting two fours and three sixes.Bangalore's target was adjusted to 102.(by D/L method)
The Kings XI Punjab registered a much-needed victory over Kochi Tuskers Kerala by six-wickets in Kochi. Dinesh Karthik hammered 69 runs in just 33 balls,smashing five maximums and seven boundaries to guide Punjab to a win with seven balls to spare.Shaun Marsh contributed with 42 in 30 balls.
Earlier,Mahela Jayawardene scored an excellent half-century to guide Kochi to 178 for seven.He hit eight fours and two sixes in his 76 off 52 balls.He was well supported by opening partner Brendon McCullum,who smacked 32 runs and Owais Shah, who hit 23 in 12 deliveries. Bipul Sharma picked up two wickets for Punjab.
