Two former players of KKR, Hodge and Gayle, both played crucial knocks for their respective team’s victories against KKR. Gayle hit a blistering century for Bangalore which thrashed Kolkata’s hopes; now Hodge played a cameo of 35 not out from just 19 balls, which helped Tuskers to get a win over Kolkata Knight Riders. Hodge hit two sixes and as many fours to take 21 runs off Brett Lee in the last over of the match.
Local guys Raiphi Gomez (4-1-14-2) and Prasanth Parameswaran (4-0-21-0) bowled extremely well and their bowling spell cost much damage to KKR’s chasing. Raiphi Gomez dismissed Kallis(45 runs from 41 balls) and rival skipper Gautam Gambhir (0) off successive deliveries to bring the home team right back in the match. Opener Morgan and Yusuf Pathan (17) tried to accelerate the innings but only ended up in a terrible mix-up resulting in Morgan's run out. He scored 66 runs from 51 balls.
Earlier, put into bat, skipper Jayawardene led from the front, scoring a half century(55 from 41 balls) which helped KTK to post a challenging 156 for five.
Man of the match: Brad Hodge
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