May 03, 2017

VIVO IPL 2017 season 10 41st encounter between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rising Pune Supergiants at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on May 03, 2017 at 8:00 pm. Putting into bat first by Pune, Kolkata managed tu put defending total of 155 runs in 20 overs. MK Pandey 37, C de Grandhomme 36 and SK Yadav 30 of 15 balls were top scorer for KKR. Pune in reply RA Tripathi's extra dorinery inning of 93 runs in 52 balls chase the given target in 19.2 overs and won the match by 4 wickets. RA Tripathi declared man of the match for his brave 93 runs.

Earlier, Rising Pune Supergiant won the toss and elected to field first and let home team Kolkata to set target to achieve. Putting into bat first by Pune, Kolkata lost pinch hitter SP Narine in very 1st over without scoring a single run. Next man SP Jackson also went early scoring just 10 runs. Skipper Gambhir got good start but lost his wicket in hurry scoring 24 runs. YK Pathan also failed today and left the field of just 4 runs and KKR were in trouble to put good total at home. MK Pandey and C de Grandhomme played good quick cricket in middle overs and contributed well 37 and 36 runs respectively. In later overs SK Yadav played quick inning of 30 unbeaten runs of 16 balls and put Kolkata on defending total of 155 runs in 20 overs.

Following target of 156 runs, Pune lost AM Rahane early scoring 11 runs. SPD Smith joined with RA Tripathi and played some good cricket initially. Smtih also departed scoring 9 runs. Next man MK Tiwary also went early. RA Trupathi played excellent quick inning of 93 runs of just 52 balls with 7 massive sixes powered Pune to upset Kolkata by 4 wickets at their home Eden Gardens. Pune won by 4 wickets with 4 balls to bowl.

Player of the match - RA Tripathi (RPS)

Points - Rising Pune Supergiants 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0.