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Deccan Chargers beat Knight Riders by six wkts

Rohit Sharma is the Man of the Match. It was a thrilling close. Kolkata had all the chance of winning the game. With 21 needed off one over but Kolkata failed to exploit the situation.

Kolkata Knight Riders regained superbly after a slow start to finish with a competitive score. They owe it largely to Hussey and Hodge who overcame a lull in the scoring in the middle of the innings. Ganguly flourished but perished trying to hit out.

Adam Gilchrist’s men clearly looked the most high-flying squad in this year’s IPL before they witnessed a wretched stretch with three defeats on the trot and added further trouble to their campaign by gifting Delhi their last match. But Deccan skipper Gilchrist will be in no mood to repeat his mistake. With nine defeats to its credit the Knight Riders have nothing to lose and will be playing for pride in their last three matches, expecting to notch up a few upsets to further spice up the semifinal race.

Deccan Chargers

AC Gilchrist, Abhinav Kumar, AA Bilakhia, MS Bisla, H Das, FH Edwards, HH Gibbs, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, Jaskaran Singh, D Kalyankrishna, VVS Laxman, PP Ojha, DB Ravi Teja, PM Sarvesh Kumar, RG Sharma, SM Shoaib, LPC Silva, RP Singh, DR Smith, SB Styris, TS Suman, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, DP Vijaykumar, AS Yadav, DNT Zoysa

Kolkata Knight Riders

BB McCullum, Anureet Singh, AB Agarkar, RB Banerjee, AB Dinda, SC Ganguly, CH Gayle, AN Ghosh, MC Henriques, BJ Hodge, DJ Hussey, M Kartik, CK Langeveldt, Mashrafe Mortaza, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, WP Saha, SS Shaikh, I Sharma, LR Shukla, MN van Wyk, Yashpal Singh