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First Match of IPL between Kolkata Knight Riders Vs. Bangalore Royal Challengers!

Match was won by Kolkata Knight Riders by 140 runs.

The new era of the Indian and World cricket is to begin very soon. The DLF IPL is scheduled to begin tonight at Bangalore. The opening ceremony was over in M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. The first match is scheduled to play between Kolkata Knight Riders, and Bangalore Royal Challengers. Knight Riders is captained by Saurav Ganguly and RC is captained by Dravid. Owner of Knight Riders is Shahrukh Khan while Royal Challengers is owned by Vijay Malya.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Saurav Ganguly, S Kaul, Ajeet Agarkar, R Banerjee, A Chopra, D Das, Chris Gayle, D Hussey, Iqbal Abdulla, Murali Kartik, SS Lahiri, BB McCullum, Mohammad Hafeez, Ricky Ponting, CA Pujara, W Saha, Salman Butt, Ishant Sharma, LR Shukla, T Taibu, Umar Gul, and Yashpal Singh.

Bangalore Royal Challengers: Rahul Dravid, Abdur Razzak, B Akhil, KP Appanna, J Arun kumar, M Boucher, S Chanderpaul, B Chipli, SP Goswami, Waseem Jaffer, S Joshi, J Kallis, Zahir Khan, V Kohli, P Kumar, Anil Kumble, Misbah-ul-Haq, A Noffke, D Patil, D Steyn, L Taylor, R Vinay Kumar, and CL White.

The match is scheduled to begin at 8 PM IST. The toss is completed at 7:45 PM IST and it is won by Royal Challengers and they have decided to field first. Dravid want to utilize the moisture of the pitch.

Live Score: Bangalore Royal Challengers 82 All Out (15.1 Overs) P Kumar 18*, S Joshi 3, Zaheer Khan 3, Noffke 9, White 4, Akhil 0, Boucher 7, Jaffer 6, Kallis 8, Dravid 2, Virat Kohli 1

Bangalore Royal Challengers lost the match by 140 runs. It was a terrific match by Kolkata Knight Riders and especially by McCullum.

Jaffer gone in the ball of Ashoke Dinda.

Agarkar strikes and B R C is three down now.

Kohli too departs, Royal Challengers are two down now.

Dravid departs in the very first ball of Sharma.

Kolkata Knight Riders 222/3 (20.0 Overs) McCullam 158*, Hafeez 5*, Hussey 12, Ponting 20, Ganguly 10

Superb knock by McCullam, he made 158 runs playing only 73 balls and hitting 13 sixes and 10 boundaries. Superb knock, and Kolkata Knight Riders made 222 runs which is the highest score of any T20 match.

200 runs for knight riders.

Kolkata Knight Riders is three wicket down now.

Century by McCullam nice inning.

Second wicket of KKR fell. Ponting was out by Kumar.

Brilliant half century by McCullam.

First wicket of Kolkata Knight Riders fell. Ganguly was out by Zaheer Khan.

The second run of Zaheer gives 18 runs to Kolkata Knight Riders.

Opening bowling pair for Royal Challengers is of Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan.

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3 Responses to “First Match of IPL between Kolkata Knight Riders Vs. Bangalore Royal Challengers!”

  1. It was really a exciting match.

  2. three cheers for ipl http://www.blogger.com/profile/03710671603849576630

  3. shibli mustaf on April 19th, 2008 at 5:51 am

    Please give full highlight of first ipl CRICKET

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