3024dThe Report by George Binoy

Quicks fire Rajasthan Royals to second win

A brace of double-wicket overs from Rahul Shukla and Siddharth Trivedi was the decisive blow that secured a consecutive victory for Rajasthan Royals this season

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

EJG Morgan
EJG Morgan
51(38) 3x4 - 3x6
Control %64%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 20 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
5 3 4 15 10 2 6 6
BJ Hodge
46(31) 7x4 - 0x6
Control %77%
  • Productive Shot
  • cut shot on back foot
  • 15 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
5 0 6 15 7 0 0 13

Best performances - Bowlers

KK Cooper
O4
M0
R15
W3
Eco3.75
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
SK Trivedi
O4
M0
R23
W3
Eco5.75
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Abhishek Purohit

END OF OVER:
19 | 3 Runs 2 Wkts | KKR: 125/10 (20 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 6.57, RRR: 20.00)

  • Sunil Narine2 (2b)
  • Kevon Cooper4-0-15-3
  • Shaun Tait4-0-29-1

With Trivedi's imploring plea to the BCCI to prepare more pitches like these, that will be it from Abhishek Purohit for this game. Go well

Siddharth Trivedi is the Man of the Match. Trivedi: "Ball was seaming a bit in the first innings, it really worked bowling wicket to wicket, suited my style of bowling. I enjoyed bowling here, in India, if you get such wickets, fast bowlers put in more effort. Tait is a good mate and he guides me when I approach him. Sometimes I feel he bowls 150 and I am only in 130s but I use what I have."

Rahul Dravid: "With the bat, we were at least 15-20 runs below par, but our bowlers responded very well. Partnership between Hodge and Yagnik got us there. Trivedi bowled a good spell, Gambhir's wicket was a big one, we picked regular wickets in the early overs. Look at their middle order, Pathan, Morgan, Tiwary, Gambhir, who wants to bowl spin to them, pound them with a bit of pace."

Gautam Gambhir: "We kept losing wickets at the wrong time. 144 was a good job done by the bowlers, it was a good wicket to bat on, we should have chased it, we played bad shots and kept losing wickets whenever we had a partnership. The way Brett bowled are very good signs for us. Hopefully we can get many more pitches like this."

Sreesanth cannot stop raving about the Jaipur pitch. Pace, seam, bounce, make for an interesting T20 game too. Bradley Hodge, veteran, showing his class with a 31-ball 46 that stretched the score out of KKR's reach. And Morgan, his coolness, almost stealing the game away

So Cooper having the decisive impact in another Rajasthan win. Pacy, bouncy pitch, and it was his offcutters that reined in runaway HMS Morgan.

Sreesanth: "Always great to bowl on a green top. Was nice to see five fast bowlers playing. Gambhir knows exactly what I bowl, so he was charging at me. What a wicket, man, I am still excited about this wicket, we should stick to this wicket."

Mahesh has been busy: "This time i did it..I counted that Dravid shook hands with 39 people...OMG!!"

Shailesh : "So Watson didn't bowl afterall! And to think of how much noise people were making about it at the start!"

Shad: "Surely, KKR must realize soon that Morgan should be playing at #3 or #4. There aren't many better T20 batsmen than Morgan ... calm cool collected with all the shots and more in the bag. KKR shouldn't waste him like MI waste Pollard."

Nikhil: "duh!!! so Its lack of will which stops us from making green tops i thot we dont have soil 4 that!!!"

18.6
W
Cooper to Mohammed Shami, OUT, an offcutter, a hoick, a skier, Rahane comes in from deep midwicket, accepts it, and throws it in the air, Rajasthan start with a win at Sawai Mansingh

Mohammed Shami c Rahane b Cooper 5 (18m 10b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50

18.5
1
Cooper to Narine, 1 run, no pace to work with, Narine backs to leg, and slaps it to extra cover
18.4
1
Cooper to Mohammed Shami, 1 run, pitched up, slogged on the bounce to long off
18.3
0
Cooper to Mohammed Shami, no run, yorker, right on target, keeper dives and collects down leg as Shami misses

sammydude: "@AS Yes. Morgan has done a Dhoni!"

18.2
1
Cooper to Narine, 1 run, turned off the pad through square leg
18.1
W
Cooper to Morgan, OUT, game, set, match, Kevon Cooper, slow offcutter, to the man who was swiping Shaun Tait for sixes, Morgan on a knee outside off, the scoop in mind, gets an inside edge onto stumps

EJG Morgan b Cooper 51 (62m 38b 3x4 3x6) SR: 134.21

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  • Quicks fire Rajasthan Royals to second win

    A brace of double-wicket overs from Rahul Shukla and Siddharth Trivedi was the decisive blow that secured a consecutive victory for Rajasthan Royals this season

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KKR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st19G GambhirMS Bisla
2nd1JH KallisG Gambhir
3rd20G GambhirMK Tiwary
4th3G GambhirEJG Morgan
5th1YK PathanEJG Morgan
6th12LR ShuklaEJG Morgan
7th34R BhatiaEJG Morgan
8th13B LeeEJG Morgan
9th19EJG MorganMohammed Shami
10th3SP NarineMohammed Shami