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The Kolkata Knight Riders will have to pick themselves up after the exhausting defeat in a sensational Super Over hit-out against the Rajasthan Royals at Newlands on Thursday. Captain Brendan McCullum will have to get his demoralized team to bounce back quickly when they return to the Cape Town ground for their next DLF Indian Premier League engagement against the Chennai Super Kings on Saturday. Both teams are on two points from a single win in three matches.
After having lost to defending champions the Rajasthan Royals on Thursday night, the Kolkata Knight Riders were gutted. By captain Brendan McCullum’s own admission it felt as though the win and the valuable two points had been “stolen” from them. That the Knight Riders were even in with a chance batting second was down to a well-paced 46 from former captain Sourav Ganguly in pursuit of a victory target of 151.
The turning point came in the 16th over of the Kolkata Knight Riders innings, when the Rajasthan Royals’ Munaf Patel conceded 22 runs. That dropped the Kolkata Knight Riders’ required run-rate to about eight, and only seven runs were required from the final over. They could only manage six as Ganguly was dismissed, and proceeded to run up against a hurricane called Yusuf Pathan who blitzed 18 runs off four balls in the super over to easily beat their effort of 15-1.
McCullum might well try batting first should he win the toss in another late game tomorrow, though, since in domestic 20-overs cricket teams have often easily defended scores of around 150. The Chennai Super Kings, despite losing a second game on Thursday to the Delhi Daredevils, have displayed the ability to compile big scores, specially with leading run-getter Matthew Hayden (166 runs from three innings) in their ranks
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