IPL 6: Knight Riders beat Royals by 8 wickets

Kolkata - Kolkata Knight Riders kept their hopes alive of qualifying for the playoffs with a convincing eight-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Eden Gardens here Friday.

After restricting Rajasthan to 132 for six, the Knight Riders scored 133 for two and won with 16 balls to spare.

Scorecard:

Rajasthan Royals

Shane Watson lbw b Narine 35

Ajinkya Rahane st Bisla b Senanayake 6

James Faulkner c Gambhir b Iqbal Abdulla 1

Sanju Samson c Kallis b Bhatia 40

Dinesh Yagnik b Senanayake 10

Owais Shah b Kallis 24

Stuart Binny not out 3

Rahul Dravid not out 6

Extras (lb 1, w 5, nb 1) 7

Total (for six wickets in 20 overs) 132

Fall of wickets: 1-20 (Rahane, 3.1 overs), 2-27 (Faulkner, 4.3), 3-71 (Watson, 10.5), 4-83 (Yagnik, 12.2), 5-117 (Samson, 17.4), 6-126 (Shah, 19.3)

Bowling:

Sumit Narwal 2-0-17-0

Sachithra Senanayake 4-0-26-2

Iqbal Abdulla 3-0-22-1

Jaques Kallis 3-0-25-1

Sunil Narine 4-0-20-1

Rajat Bhatia 4-0-21-1

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Gautam Gambhir st Yagnik b Watson 12

Manvinder Bisla c Rahane b Chavan 29

Jaques Kallis not out 33

Yusuf Pathan not out 49

Extras (lb 5, w 5) 10

Total (for two wickets in 17.2 overs) 133

Fall of wickets: 1-41 (Gambhir, 5.3 overs), 2-55 (Bisla, 7.1)

Bowling:

Ashok Chavan 3-0-28-1

James Faulkner 4-0-16-0

Shane Watson 3-0-21-1

Brad Hogg 3.2-0-31-0

Siddharth Trivedi 3-0-24-0

Stuart Binny 1-0-8-0