The Rajasthan Royals keep on marching inexorably towards the top of the table and the knockout stages, while the Kolkata Knight Riders limp towards the finish line and grateful anonymity.  

Kolkata were outmatched in this game, and despite doing a reasonable job of restricting the Royals’ upper order, Rajasthan showed their class by simply rolling out their middle order excellence and taking the game away...

Date:    20/5/2008  

Teams (Home First):  Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals  

Result:    Rajasthan won, 6 wickets 

Toss won:   Rajasthan, chose to field  

Top bat home:   Ganguly, 32  

Top bat away:   Pathan, 48*  

Highest 6 over score:  Kol 32, Raj 42 

Highest opening partnership: Kol 7, Raj 16

Total sixes hit:   Kol 6, Raj 5 

Total wides:   Raj bowled 2, Kol bowled 3    

Total run outs:   1 

Kolkata took the field with virtually no chance of semi-final qualification and with the mighty Rajasthan Royals as opponents.

Hafeez didn’t last long having clearly been sent in to get a jump start to the innings, and failing miserably.   The ensuing partnership between Ganguly and Butt showed some promise, but it was slow going against some tight bowling which featured a lot of pace variations, particularly from Trivedi...