Asim Bando's KOLKATA BLOG

Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL Trophy for the first time. The team KKR with SRK arriving Kolkata today with the trophy. 3-cheers for KKR - Hip Hip Hurray! -- A. B.

27 May 2012 : IPL Final in Chennai, battle of bat & ball between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings. Who will win the match - captain Gautam Gambhir or Mahendra Singh Dhoni? Kolkatans wish that KKR will win the IPL Trophy for the first time. Kolkata is confident that team of Brand Ambassador Shah Rukh Khan will win tomorrow. Cricket lovers of the city alongwith celebrities will watch the mega final of IPL tomorrow on giant screen outside Eden Gardens. -- A. B.

KKR or Pune Warriors? Who will win the match? All eyes are on 5 May, when the most prestigious match of the IPL5 will be played at Eden Gardens. CAB already announced that there are no tickets remained for the public. Even the Board wants the wicket must be neutral. The IPL officials think it is the final match. So the chairman of IPL and board secretary will watch the match. And both the team would not get their favourite wicket. Sourav already felt the heat and enthusiasm of Kolkatans around this match. But he didn't understand the reason of it. The CAB secretary cleared it to him that it is the match between Dada and Shah Rukh Khan to Kolkatans. Then Sourav remarked that his relationship with King Khan is as good as before. Several giant screen will be set up in the city. Among them, 2 at Chandpal ghat and Shahid Minar areas and others at Howrah Kadamtala, Shyambazar, Salt Lake, Goria, Behala, Ultodanga etc. However, Kolkata shall now wait and see the most sensation...

Although KKR lost the toss, finally won the match. They defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 42 runs this evening in IPL5 cricket match in Bengaluru. The start was great, first two matches they lost, so this particular match was a real fight to win for KKR. The superb partnership of Captain Gautam Gambhir and Kallis and after the dismissal of Kallis - Bisla, the openers showed their expected responsibility to stay at crease and score as much run as possible in the first 6 overs. So, hats off to captain Gambhir and for his marvellous 64 runs. Kallis, Gambhir and Bisla contributed 132 runs out of total 165 runs. So, they layed the pillars of success - it can be said. In the second innings, Balaji played the crucial role to dismiss Bangalore players. He took 4 wickets. In the last match, Rahul Dravid's Rajasthan Royals scored 165 runs and Gautam Gambhir's Kolkata Knight Riders lost the match, and today KKR showed that they can also score 165 runs to set the chal...

Rajasthan Royals defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 22 runs this evening in IPL 5. And they defeated KKR in all the fields - bowling, fielding, batting. Goti won the toss today and elected to field. And the cricket lovers also expected good cricket from KKR but, they failed to restrain RR and the highest score 164 managed Rahul's team. Goti's team chased the target, but it proved difficult when the openers of KKR failed to bat. They scored only 2, 5, or 15 and captain himself utterly failed. What will be the fittest excuse of this disaster of batting? The bowlers of KKR also failed to perform well, while the bowlers of RR showed much better performances. Within this darkness, the only silver line of KKR was Manoj Tiwary - his 59 with partner Lee's 25 runs. So many matches yet to play, but if this is the performances of KKR, what more can we expect?-- A. B.

Shah Rukh Khan will come tomorrow in the city for the first match of KKR against Delhi Daredevils at Eden Gardens. And he may go to invite the CM to watch the match. He also introduced a series of KKR Cars for the sell of tickets. The cars will run through the city.-- A. B.