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New Delhi: Gautam Gambhir's 49-ball 60 and Yusuf Pathan's 26-ball 40 as Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Daredevils by seven wickets at Feroz Shah Kotla on Monday.
Gautam Gambhir played a captain’s knock as defending chmapions. He scored 60 off 49 deliveries, followed by another match-winning knock of 40 by Yusuf Pathan to earn their third win of the season.
Earlier, Kolkata captain, Gautam Gambhir won the toss and put Delhi into bat as both the teams went with an unchanged squad.
DD posted a moderate total of 146, followed by a healthy innings from opener, Shreyas Iyer and Manoj Tiwary for 31 and 32, respectively, while Morne Morkel and Piyush Chawla claimed a couple of wickets each for KKR to restrict them to the total.
KKR began the chase on a convincing note, with opener, Robin Uthappa and Gambhir, getting off to a good start and putting up 31 runs on the board in four overs, before Uthappa was dismissed for 13 by Dominic Muthuswami, after being caught by JP Duminy at mid-off.
And in same over to follow him was Manish pandey, who fell for an unfortunate duck being caught by Imran Tahir at third-man.
However, the next pair of the skipper and Suryakumar Yadav was able to put up a healthy stand of 48 runs, before Yadav fell to fast-bowler, Nathan Coulter-Nile after a faint outside edge went straight to wicketkeeper, Kedar Jadhav, as the score read 79 for the loss of three in 10 overs.
It was the pair of the skipper and Yusuf Pathan that put on the crucial 29 runs as Gambhir scored his 26th half-century of the tournament in the process off 38 deliveries including eight boundaries along with a strike rate of 122.44.
Gambhir was dismissed for 60 as the score read 108 in the 14th. The final pair of Yusuf Pathan and Ryan ten Doeschate saw KKR home as they comfortably won their third game of the tournament by a six-wickets
Brief scores
Delhi Daredevils - 146/8 (Tiwary 32, Iyer 31, Umesh Yadav 2-18)
Kolkata Knight Riders - 147/4 (Gambhir 60, Pathan 40*, Muthuswami 2-18)
Result - Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wickets
Points - Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Delhi Daredevils 0
MOM - Umesh Yadav (KKR)
