KKR turned to top

By winning this match, Kolkata Knight Riders move to top on the points table, although there is another team, Mumbai Indians, and they have a game in hand. Iqbal Abdulla and Yusuf took three big wickets - Adam Gilchrist, Paul Valthaty and David Hussey - for 43 runs in eight overs. Eoin Morgan and Gautam Gambhir, two of the best players of KKR, made sure that the chase was smooth.

After the dismissal of Gilchrist, Shaun Marsh and Abhishek Nayar were run out: Marsh caught and Nayar when trying to take a tight single. At 53 for 4 in the 10th over, Gambhir's captaincy shone through. He was not content with the early wickets. Almost every new batsman walked out to a slip and a silly point. Gambhir himself fielded under the helmet.
 

A 33-run stabilizing stand between Dinesh Karthik and David Hussey threatened much, but in the 15th over Abdulla came back to end. Three overs after he had survived a shout for a lbw, Hussey was given out to a delivery that could have perhaps slid down the leg side. Karthik nudged and swept his means to 42 off 42, but couldn't afford that final kick. Only 33 came off the last five overs, which intended that the run-rate never crossed six an over after it slipped under the smudge in the seventh over.
 

It was a chase that could have simply gone wrong on a difficult track. At least it defenseless to when Jacques Kallis got out to the first ball of left-arm spin of Bhargav Bhatt, who begins the bowling. Morgan, however, took out anything keenness the Punjab side might have had. He judged lengths of the ball early, moved feet decisively, and his 15-ball 28 made sure there was no run-rate pressure on the rest.
 

Gambhir annulled the spinners expertly, viewing his version of quick footwork. Maybe because he is the captain, he was less gaudy than Morgan. He relied on imperative forward, then waiting for the bowler to bowl short for a push into the leg side. If the bowler didn't pitch short, like Piyush Chawla tried, he punished him well over the infield. With support approaching from Manoj Tiwary, the rest was a twilight walk at Eden Gardens.

India Reach Tournament Final

India beat Pakistan by 29 runs. Excellent performance of Indian players make them a victory over Pakistan. Here bad performance of Pakistani players are also noticeable, because man of the match Shachin Ramesh Tendulkar got life for 4 times, and with the help of these opportunities he made a handsome score of 85 runs and made India to go to final. Tendulkar dropped for four times in his man of the match innings to anchor India to 260-9 against their arch-rivals before his team's bowlers applied the pressure and the brakes to secure a 29-run win in the hotly-anticipated clash. First time Misbah missed then Kamran missed his catch then Younis Khan missed and at last Umor Akmal missed his catch but Shahid Afridi dont mistake to take a brilliant catch to dismissed Tendulkar's innings. Tendulkar again missed out on making 100 international centuries but has the satisfaction of having played in all five of India's World Cup wins over Pakistan. Now he hopes to be at the forefront of Saturday's campaign where India will look to capture a second World Cup title. In the very beginning of the day Indian captain Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first. Two openers Virendar Sehwag starts fantastically but after falling of Sehwag's wicket ,run was slow and at the last it made 260. Pakistani pacer wahab riaz made his best figure yesterday, he picked up 5 wicket and also handsome wicket Sehwag, Kohli, Yuvraj, Dhoni. But bad performance keeps Pakistan away from final, and it is unbelievable. Pakistan floundered more than what they could afford, while India marched ahead to set up a clash with Sri Lanka in the World Cup final in Mumbai.