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KKR 159 in overs 18.3, Live Cricket Score Delhi Daredevils (DD) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), IPL 2016, Match 26 at Delhi: DD win by 27 runs

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Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the season nine of the Indian Premier League (IPL). I am Paulami Chakraborty and I will bring to you the live updates from Match No. 26 between Delhi Daredevils (DD) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi. Both DD and KKR have won three of their five matches they have played so far and this match is expected to be a neck-to-neck one, looking at the fact that both the teams are equally powered. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL 2016, Match 26 at Delhi

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 159 in overs 18.3, Batting: Brad Hogg 0(0): The captain to bowl the last over. Zaheer starts with a wide, has to bowl it again. A single off the next. OUT! Brilliant run out and DD look close to their victory. GONE! Umesh Yadav goes up and Morris makes no mistake taking the catch at deep square leg. Delhi Daredevils win by 27 runs!

OUT! Umesh Yadav c Chris Morris b Zaheer Khan 2 (3)

OUT! Sunil Narine run out 4 (3) 

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 156/8 in overs 18, Batting: Robin Uthappa 3(3), Jason Holder 1(1): Chris Morris starts with a full length delivery, concedes a single. OUT! Holder departs without contributing. Morris bowls a yorker, Holder fails to see the ball post hitting and it was a very easy job for Morris who was already near the wicket due to the momentum. Umesh Yadav comes out, a single. OUT! Yet another wicket and KKR suddenly look in trouble. Uthappa cuts it to backward point where Karun Nair takes a flawless catch.

OUT! Robin Uthappa b Chris Morris c Karun Nair 72(52)

OUT! Jason Holder run out 0(1)

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 136/5 in overs 17, Batting: Robin Uthappa 72 (50), Jason Holder 13(9): Amit Mishra. Good length, Uthappa comes down the ground and hammers it over mid-wicket! FOUR! Uthappa goes for a reverse sweep and the ball races to the ropes from under the ‘keeper. Single. Huge, huge appeal from Mishra but the umpire shakes his head. Looks like missing the leg stump. FOUR! Good length, Russell sits down and pulls it over square leg. OUT! What a great catch by the bowler, it carried and Mishra reacted at the right time gripping the return catch.

OUT! Andre Russell c & b Amit Mishra 17(12)

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 136/5 in overs 16, Batting: Robin Uthappa 60(47), Andre Russell 13(9):Mohammed Shami starts with a slower one outside off, swing and a miss from Russell. Stoops and ducks the next slower bouncer, no runs off the next couple of balls as well. SIX! Russell hits with full strength over mid-wicket and that changed the over. Played straight and a single to end it. Time for strategic time out.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 127/5 in overs 15, Batting: Robin Uthappa 59(46), Andre Russell 6(4): Amit Mishra starts off with a wide. SIX! Great shot and that brings fifty for Uthappa, second for the season. Uthappa goes up again but it falls in no man’s land. Yet another wide. A dot ball follows. Boundary to end the over, Uthappa sends it through extra cover.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 113/5 in overs 14, Batting: Robin Uthappa 48(42), Andre Russell 5(2): Brathwaite to continue. Single to start. FOUR! Satish goes straight over the bowler’s head and four runs! OUT! Brilliant running catch by Morris at deep square leg and Satish has to depart. At leg, single as Russell moves his feet and sends it to long on. Single follows. FOUR! Russell waits and cuts it past the keeper.

OUT! R Satish b Carlos Brathwaite c Chris Morris 6(7)

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 102/4 in overs 13, Batting: Robin Uthappa 44(38), R Satish 1(1): Amit Mishra continues. Tries to stop the ball as Uthappa flat bats it, mis-field and a single brings 100 for KKR! No run off the next. Brilliant googly by the bowler, the batsmen stole singles. Just three runs off the over.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 99/4 in overs 12, Batting: Robin Uthappa 44(38), R Satish 1(1): Brathwaite is back. OUT! Down the leg, good and Suryakumar Yadav picks it up to Shreyas Iyer takes it at mid-on. Great diving catch by Iyer. At leg, Sathish plays it to long on, single. Straight full toss, single off it.

OUT! Suryakumar Yadav b Carlos Brathwaite c Shreyas Iyer 21(13)

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 93/3 in overs 11, Batting: Robin Uthappa 39(32), Suryakumar Yadav 20(11): Amit Mishra to continue. Uthappa plays it straight to bowler, no run. Hammers the next to deep point, takes a couple of runs. Cuts the next and take a single. Yadav plays the next to square leg, single. Reverse sweep this time, no run. APPEAL for lbw, the umpire is not interested, single off the pad.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 88/3 in overs 10, Batting: Robin Uthappa 36(29), Suryakumar Yadav 20(11): Good length, at leg, and Yadav flicks it to square leg for single. Another single follows. FOUR! Yadav makes room and sends over cover for four. Plays the next to mid-wicket, single. Uthappa sends the next to square for a couple of runs. No ball and Zaheer to bowl the last ball once again. No ball and four. Waist high and Zaheer to repeat it yet again. SIX, Yadav making no mistake.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 66/3 in overs 9, Batting: Robin Uthappa 34(27), Suryakumar Yadav 6(5): Brilliant save there by Shreyas Iyer at thirdman as Yadav hit it past the keeper. Two runs. Chris Morris continuing. Goes up but it drops short of deep mid-wicket, stopped though. Single, yes, no confusion, the two settle for no run. Single to end it.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 59/3 in overs 8, Batting: Robin Uthappa 32(25), Suryakumar Yadav 1(1): Brathwaite to continue. Single. Short, outside, Uthappa pulls it over mid-wicket. One of Uthappa specials. GONE! Pathan walks back. Suryakumar Yadav comes in. Goes off the mark directly with a single.

OUT! Yousuf Pathan b Carlos Brathwaite c Amit Mishra 10(9)

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 51/2 in overs 7, Batting: Robin Uthappa 20(18), Yousuf Pathan 9(7): Morris into the attack. And he slips, looks like it could have been worse. Looks like he is alright. Takes the run up again, short Yousuf sends it through square, single. Short again, Uthappa defends. Uthappa now is not happy with peopl moving near sight screen. Another stop for Morris. FOUR! Short and straight, Uthappa middles and sends through mid-on. Well fielded by the Shreyas in the next ball, Morris turns it inside, it ran through mid-wicket. 50 up for KKR. Umpire gives Morris a warning following the bouncer Uthappa. Single off the last.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 46/2 in overs 6, Batting: Robin Uthappa 20(17), Yousuf Pathan 8(6): Mohammad Shami back in action. Fullish, at off, single. Another single. Good length, played to mid-off, single. Great shot! Yousuf picked from outside off and sends to Square, a couple of runs. FOUR! Pathan hits the first four if his innings, goes over mid-off, one bounce four. Time for Strategic Time out!

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 33/2 in overs 5, Batting: Robin Uthappa 18(15), Yousuf Pathan 0(2): Good length delivery and Zaheer starts with a dot. FOUR! Chawla picks it from outside off and sends through mid-wicket! OUT! Piyush Chawla is the second wicket for Zaheer. Brilliant over from Zaheer, 5 runs and a wicket.

OUT! Piyush Chawla lbw Zaheer Khan 8(5) 

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 28/1 in overs 4, Batting: Robin Uthappa 17(13), Piyush Chawla 4(3): Shami coninues. Single off the first. Chance of a run out but the batsman is safe. Single off Chawla’s pad, brings Uthappa back on strike. Short, pulled above square leg, fielded at deep. FOUR! Outside off, Chawla hits with a straight bat and it races to long-off boundary.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 21/1 in overs 3, Batting: Robin Uthappa 15(10):Fullish, outside off and Zaheer starts with a single. Mis-field! Opportunity there to get the captain out but the fielder misses and the throw results in an extra run. FOUR! Gets the bottom edge, through mid-off and well placed. OUT! Captain takes the captain, Zaheer traps Gambhir.

OUT! Gautam Gambhir b Zaheer Khan c Shreyas Iyer 6(8)

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 13/0 in overs 2, Batting: Robin Uthappa 9(7), Gautam Gambhir 4(5): Mohammed Shami with the ball. Brilliant delivery, great line. Uthappa misses. Played the next to extra cover and a single. Short length, played to square leg, single. Good length, off, single. Another single. FOUR! Good length, straight, and Uthappa sends it through the huge gap at square leg.

Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders 5/0 in overs 1, Batting: Robin Uthappa 3(3), Gautam Gambhir 2(3): Zaheer Khan opens the bowling. Uthappa plays it to mid-on. Flicked the next to deep mid-wicket, fielded, Uthappa off the mark with two. Good length, flicked to square leg, single. Gambhir on strike. Swing and a miss, no run. Played the next to square leg, brilliant ‘football’ stop there at the deep, single.

*KKR’s innings starts*

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 186/8 in overs 20, Batting: Mohammed Shami 0(1): SIX! Goes over mid-wicket and gets six runs. OUT! Brathwaite shifts outside off and picks it up to Narine at square. Missed a certain run out, Russell could run and get the batsman out while he threw and missed the stumps from close. Single off Shami’s pads. Good over by Russell,  Run out off the last ball.

OUT! Rishabh Pant run out 4 (4)

OUT! Carlos Brathwaite c Sunil Narine b Russell 34 (11)

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 176/6 in overs 19, Batting: Rishabh Pant 1(1), Carlos Brathwaite 28(9): SIX! Brathwaite welcomes Yadav, sending him over long-on. FOUR! Inside edge, flicked it with string arms and it goes past the keeper. BOWLED HIM! Billings misses the line totally, settles outside off exposing the stumps and Yadav went straight through the middle stump. Rishabh Pant comes in, off tge mark with a single.

OUT! Sam Billings b Umesh Yadav 54(34)

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 163/5 in overs 18, Batting: Sam Billings 54(33), Carlos Brathwaite 17(5): Brad Hogg to continue. Bowling his final over! A couple of runs off the first. Billings picks the next over Brathwaite’s head to extra cover, single. Edged, Pathan almost got his hands on it at cover, Brathwaite gets a couple of runs for a weird shot. SIX! Hogg’s googly goes over square leg! SIX! First match and first IPL fifty for Billings over long off, in style!

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 145/5 in overs 17, Batting: Sam Billings 45(30), Carlos Brathwaite 8(2): Umesh Yadav into attack and Karun Niar greets him with a SIX, classic shot. Bring up the hundred run partnership between the two. OUT! Umesh Yadav strikes! BOWLED! Dangerman, hero of last match, Chris Morris goes for a duck! Bad luck for birthday boy. FOUR! Way down leg and Carlos Brathwaite makes no mistake sending it to fine leg boundary. FOUR! Outside off, good length, cut to thirdman, beautiful.

OUT! Chris Morris b Umesh Yadav 0(2)

OUT! Karun Nair lbw Umesh Yadav 68(50)

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 131/3 in overs 16, Batting: Karun Nair 62(48), Sam Billings 45(30): Holder with his final over. Starts with a dot. At leg stump, quick single. SIX! Outside off, got into position early on, settled down on back leg, picked and sent over square leg! Flicked the next to long-on, single. Karun Nair picks it up and straight, drops near mid on, single. Billings goes up again, drops at mid on, single, keeps strike.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 120/3 in overs 15, Batting: Karun Nair 59(44), Sam Billings 38(28): FOUR! Nair welcomes the experience bowler with a brilliant sweep. Fifty for Nair. FOUR! Another sweep, square leg this time. Great comeback by Narine, no run. Wide ball follows. FOUR! Reverse sweep from Nair, fullish, awesome hand eye co-ordination, goes on front foot, sends it to point. Single to end the over.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 106/3 in overs 14, Batting: Karun Nair 46(38), Sam Billings 38(28): Holder to continue. FOUR! Bouncer, Karun Nair plays an upper cut and outwitted Holder as the ball raced to thirdman boundary. Hundred up for DD. Mix up, no run. Played the next to point, single. Good length, good bounce, swing and a miss. Nice shot! Billings reads the bowler, comes outside, scoops to square leg, fielded at deep by Chawla, 1 run. Single to end the over.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 99/3 in overs 13, Batting: Karun Nair 40(34), Sam Billings 37(26): Hogg to continue. Starts with a yorker, single. Outside off, lower full toss and Billings hits a brilliant shot to cover, 2 runs. A couple of singles follow. Straight, full length, hit straight past the bowler, looked like a boundary but fielded at deep.

Meanwhile, Kings XI Punjab replaces David Miller with Murali Vijay as captain.

 

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 92/3 in overs 12, Batting: Karun Nair 38(31), Sam Billings 32(23): Piyush Chawla continues. Fullish, Billings takes a long stride to make it a full toss, sweeps it, fielded at deep square. FOUR! Great shot, full length, goes down cover. Works down mid-wicket, 2 runs. FOUR! Billings hit that with full force, adjusting feet at the last time and pulled to mid-wicket. No ball, single off it. Good ball to cover up, just a single. A single to end the over.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 77/3 in overs 11, Batting: Karun Nair 35(28), Sam Billings 14(13): Brad Hogg continues, single to start. Yorker, Billings creates room, stoops and picks it up above cover, fielded at deep, two runs. Single follows, Billings moves foot to hit it hard to long. Hogg goes down leg, just a single. A single to end the over.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 70/3 in overs 10, Batting: Karun Nair 35(28), Sam Billings 14(13): Finally, Piyush Chawla comes in to bowl. Low, Billings fliks it to mid-wicket, single. Nair blocks the next, no run. Single off the next. Billings comes out and picks it from outside off and sends to mid-wicket, a couple of runs. FOUR! Fullish, sweeped to square leg.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 61/3 in overs 9, Batting: Karun Nair 30(25), Sam Billings 10(10): Brad Hogg comes in to bowl the first. Nice line, good length, singles so far. GREAT SHOT! Good length, cut to point, deep fielder collects it, two. Nice footwork this time by Nair, plays the next to longon, single. Single off the last and it is time for STRATEGIC TIME OUT! 

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 54/3 in overs 8, Batting: Karun Nair 25(21), Sam Billings 2(5): FOUR! Off Billings’ pad, it goes past the keeper for four to the fine leg delivery. Umesh Yadav comes in for the first time. Better one, beats batsman. Yadav playing with the line sensibly. FOUR! Billings picks up from outside off, pulls through the mid-wicket. Played the next to cover, just a single, keeps strike. 50 comes up for DD.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 43/3 in overs 7, Batting: Karun Nair 25(21), Sam Billings 1(2): FOUR! Brave reverse sweep, goes straight to thirdman boundary. Single follows, though the call was for sure, fielder Holder made sure DD does not get it Nair plays the next for no run. Narine getting subtle turns, Nair gets on front foot but leaves the last moment.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 37/3 in overs 6, Batting: Karun Nair 20(16), Sam Billings 0(1): Billings makes his IPL debut, Russell to continue bowling. Getting good bounce, Nair playing defensive. Blocks the next, no run. FOUR! Nicely judged and played to square leg. A single follows. Dot to end it. Billing yet to score his first IPL run.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 32/3 in overs 5, Batting: Karun Nair 15(11): Sunil Narine takes the ball. Starts with a dot. A single follows, straighter delivery, played to midwicket. A couple of dots follow. A single this time, played to long-on. OUT! Narine does it for KKR! Poor footwork from Samson.

OUT! Sanju Samson lbw b Sunil Narine 15 (15)

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 30/2 in overs 4, Batting: Sanju Samson 30(12), Karun Nair 14(8): Holder starts with a dot. A couple of runs, at leg stump, Samson plays to mid-wicket. Holder playing with a length. Bowling outside off, beats the batsman twice. Samson steals a single off the next, as he comes down to send it to midwicket. FOUR! Down the leg, played to fine leg.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 23/2 in overs 3, Batting: Sanju Samson 23(7), Karun Nair 10(7): Andre Russell continues. No boundaries yet. Samson played the next to square leg, Brad Hogg tries to stop it while talking to the commentators, fails but stopped. Played the next to square, brilliant fielding at deep by Umesh Yadav who stops a sure boundary. FOUR! Brilliant placement by Nair. Full down leg, Nair utilises opportunity.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 13/2 in overs 2, Batting: Sanju Samson 13(6), Karun Nair 1(2): Jason Holder into the attack, outside off, swing and a miss from Samson. Again a swing and a miss. No runs yet. FOUR! Cut to thirdman, goes past the slip. What a shot. Played a bit late, nice timing. FOUR! Played through the point, beating the fielder at deep. Karun Nair off the mark with a single. Back of a length delivery, no run.

Live Cricket Score, Delhi Daredevils 2/2 in overs 1, Batting: Sanju Samson 1(1), Karun Nair 0(0): Andre Russell to open the bowling for KKR. Straight delivery, de Kock defended to point. No run. On de Kock’s pads, to square, single. GONE! Shreyas Iyer misses the line completely! Sanju Samson faces directly, off the mark with a single to mid-wicket. GONE! Quinton de Kock goes up, no power in that shot, Brad Hogg takes a comfortable catch. Brilliant over by Russell, takes 2 wickets for just a couple of runs.

OUT! Quinton de Kock b Andre Russell c Brad Hogg 1(3)

OUT! Shreyas Iyer lbw Andre Russell 0(1)

“A lot of changes for both the sides, three for KKR and four for DD. Wow!”

Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bowl first.

Playing XI:

Delhi Daredevils: Quinton de Kock (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Karun Nair, Sam Billings, Risabh Pant, Carlos Brathwaite, Chris Morris, Amit Mishra, Zaheer Khan, Mohammad Shami

Kolkata Knight Riders: Robin Uthappa (wk), Gautam Gambhir (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Andre Russell, Yusuf Pathan, R Sathish, Jason Holder, Piyush Chawla, Brad Hogg, Umesh Yadav, Sunil Narine

Kolkata Knight Riders, in their last match, received a defeat from the defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI). The match, played at MI’s home ground Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, was a tight one with both the teams having equal probabilities of winning the match. Batting first, KKR put up a par score of 174 for the hosts to chase. It was skipper Gautam Gambhir, along with Robin Uthappa, who led the team from front, scoring 59 off 45 balls. With the ball, Sunil Narine remained the most successful, with 2 wickets but the two could not save the side Kieron Pollard and Rohit Sharma fired with the bat.

Delhi Daredevils, on the other hand, had a close fight with the Gujarat Lions (GL) in their last match. The Lions had put up 172 for DD to chasea s Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum shone. While skipper Zaheer Khan remained expensive, Imran Tahir bowled exceptionally well taking 3 wickets with an economy of 6.00. But it was a Chris Morris show that day as, after bagging two wickets, he scored an unbeaten 82 off 32 but failed to save his side from a one run defeat.

Squads:

Delhi Daredevils (DD): Zaheer Khan (c), Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Shami,Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Jayant Yadav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Imran Tahir, JP Duminy, Quinton de Kock (wk), Pawan Negi, Chris Morris, Sanju Samson, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, Sam Billings, Chama Milind, Pratyush Singh, Mahipal Lomror, Saeed Khaleel Ahmed, Akhil Herwadkar, Pawan Suyal.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (c), Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa (wk), Sheldon Jackson, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Brad Hogg, Chris Lynn, Morne Morkel, Shakib Al Hasan. Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, John Hastings, Jason Holder, Colin Munro, Rajgopal Sathish, Manan Ajay Sharma.

DD 43/3 in overs 7, Live Cricket Score Delhi Daredevils (DD) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), IPL 2016, Match 26 at Delhi: de Kock goes for 1

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