Kolkata beat Bangalore by 2 runs in a thriller

24th April, Sharjah - Kolkata beat Bangalore by 2 runs in a thriller

Scorecard - Kolkata Vs Bangalore          IPL 2014 Points Table

Quotes

Lynn - "It's a great feeling to be on the winning side. The pitch was a bit 2 paced and the total in the end looked good though we looked for 180 initially. The catch came out well and it was a key moment so I am happy that I could contribute to it."

Gambhir - "It's an incredible win and we needed a bit of luck in the end which we got. After not scoring a run in the tournament, I am relieved with the win. Once the ball got older it was getting hard to clear the fence. Chris and Yadav made useful contributions but we were 10 runs short at the break though we believed we could defend the total. We leaked runs in the first 6 overs but pulled it back in the end. That catch was incredible and probably the big moment in the game.

Virat Kohli: Jaw is fine just had a bad hit. We lost the game rather than Kolkata winning one. They bowled really well. Chasing 150 and when the Required Run Rate was close to 6.3 with 7 wickets in hand, 9/10 we would have chased it. We played some good cricket to restrict them to 150 and it was about being smarter in finishing the game which we didn't do it.

Team:

Bangalore: P Patel (Wkt) , Y Takawale , V Kohli (Capt) , Y Singh , AB de Villiers , A Morkel , M Starc , A Dinda , V Aaron , Y Chahal , M Muralitharan

Kolkata: J Kallis , G Gambhir (Capt) , M Pandey , C Lynn , Y Pathan , R Uthappa (Wkt) , S Yadav , S Narine , V Kumar , M Morkel , U Yadav