Kolkata Knight Riders defeat Delhi Daredevils by 6 wickets

Gautam Gambhir (41) and Sunil Narine (4-13) served Kolkata Knight Riders defeat Delhi Daredevils by six wickets in the IPL 6 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday.

Eoin Morgan and Yusuf Pathan took Kolkata Knight Riders home without any further damage as the home team began the defence of their title in style. In the end, it was an easy chase; KKR won the match by six wickets with eight balls to spare.

Delhi Daredevils will be frustrated with their performance. They lost their big gamers like Virender Sehwag and Kevin Pietersen, but even they would have been amazed with the way their batting crumbled. 

After bowling Delhi out for 128 in 20 overs, KKR reached the target in 18.4 overs losing four wickets. KKR collected two points for the win. It was a superb bowling effort by Sunil Narine who took four wickets for 13 runs in four overs.

Highlights of Game:

# Brett Lee got a wicket off the first ball of this edition of IPL. The Australian bowled Unmukt Chand for a duck on the first ball of the match 

# KKR got a wicket off the last ball too when Shahbaz Nadeem was run out 

# Delhi managed just one six in their entire innings. It was hit by captain Mahela Jayawardene 

# Only two Delhi batsmen managed to get into double figures. Jayawardene (66) and David Warner (21) were the two 

# Jayawardene registered the first half century of IPL 6 

# During his knock today, Jayawardene completed 1,500 runs in IPL 

# Delhi scored 15 boundaries in the innings 

# Captain Gautam Gambhir top scored for KKR with 42 runs 

# KKR scored two sixes, one each from Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan 

# KKR scored 14 boundaries. Gambhir and Jacques Kallis hit five each 

# Sunil Narine was impressive with figures of 4/13 in 4 overs 

# Narine won the Man-of-the-match award, his fourth in IPL 

# Delhi missed Virender Sehwag who sat out of the match due to back spasms 

# Left-arm spinner Nadeem was the most successful Delhi bowler with figures of 2/22 in 4 overs 

# Delhi were let down by poor fielding 

# Delhi were about 15 to 20 runs short

Teams:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Brett Lee, Eoin Morgan, Jacques Kallis, Laxmipathy Balaji, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Manvinder Bisla, Rajat Bhatia, Sunil Narine and Yusuf Pathan.

Delhi Daredevils: Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Andre Russell, Ashish Nehra, David Warner, Irfan Pathan, Johan Botha, Manpreet Juneja, Naman Ojha, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav and Unmukt Chand.