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Untitled Document
 Pollock, Jayasuriya rout Kolkata Knight Riders
16th May 2008 23:03 IST
Agencies
Butt hit Pollock for a four and then slashed Ashish Nehra for a fine six over the cover region and things looked a bit rosy for Kolkata who had lost to the home team earlier in the tournament at the Eden Gardens that started the latter's winning streak after four straight defeats.
But in the third over things took a dramatic turn as the visitors lost two wickets off successive balls. Pollock removed Butt by having the batsman caught at slip by Tendulkar, trying to drive. Then Chopra was run out due to a terrible mix-up with Ganguly to leave Kolkata at a dismal 16/2 after three overs.
Pollock then dealt two huge blows by sending back in-form batsman David Hussey and Mohammad Hafeez with rising balls, which undid them.
Australian Hussey edged an intended drive to wicket keeper Yogesh Vijay Takawale while Hafeez, without getting his eye in, tried an injudicious drive to a rising delivery from Pollock and the high edge was taken well at second slip by Robin Uthappa.
Pollock's deadly spell read 4-0-12-3 and he had ripped out the heart from the visiting team's batting to make it easy for the other bowlers. It was a repeat of his splendid display that rocked Chennai Super Kings on the back foot two nights ago before being rescued by Subramaniam Badrinath and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. There was none to do so tonight.
Bravo struck a blow when he induced Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha to edge to Tendulkar a defensive prod and Kolkata were left gasping at 29/5.
Seeing the visiting team in disarray, Tendulkar brought into action his second-string pace attack and it paid rich dividends when Raje clean bowled all rounder Laxmi Shukla when he shaped to clip the ball off his toes.
Ganguly watched grimly from the other end when the mayhem took place and started to assert himself in the company of Agarkar who slammed Raje for two fours in one over to bring some cheers to the struggling visitors' ranks.
At the half way mark Kolkata were 44/6 with very little batting left to bail them out of the deep hole. The seventh wicket duo added 19 runs, the highest for the innings thus far, when Ganguly was caught behind trying to guide Thornely towards the third man region and wicket-keeper Takawale took a juggling catch at the second attempt. The rest folded up meekly.
Tendulkar took four catches, most in an innings by a fielder in the IPL. |
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