Indian Premier League and Cricket News by IPL Cricket Forum

A truly exciting nerve wrenching game and a brilliant finish by the Knight Riders to clinch the game away with win by five Wickets.

Chasing a moderate score seemed easy initially for the knight riders but with Brandon McCullum and Ricky Ponting getting out early it became a tough call for Ganguly and david Hussey. Top it up with brilliant bowling by Chamunda Vyaas, Scott Styris and Pryagan Ojha the Knight Riders were literally tied up to the stumps with occassional singles just to keep their head out of water.

Even when the lights failed halting the game briefly with only three overs to go the situation was tense with the possibility of win swinging both ways. In the end it was a sixer by Hussey which closed the fate of Deccan Chargers. Md. Hafiz came with a lot of promise and even alighted the stands with a brilliant six but could not survive Ojha’s spin. Both he and Chamunda claimed two wickets but maybe selecting Chamunda for the last over could have had some different effect on the batting side. Andrew Symonds over saw three wides and two byes costing the Chargers heavily of 15 runs in one over.

This was one game which never lacked excitement and kept the crowd of 90000 at Eden gardens on their nerves for the full session.