Sugar & Spice

Shoaib Akhtar's knee injury kept him out of today's crucial match to make KnightRiders semi-finals dreams alive. Shane Warne succeed in his plan to knock out Knight Riders from the IPL tournament.











Kolkata KnightRiders still had a chance to be in the race for semi-finals after losing match against Chennai Super Kings. They have to win there 3 matches and hope that others teams don't perform well. Now the scene is set, you perform and win and you may have the chance for semi-finals. Kolkata Knight Riders net runrate is pretty bad after they losted heavily against Mumbai Indians. Absence of Shoaib Akhtar hit Kolkata Knight Riders hard,since the batting strategy of knight riders were never upto the mark hence heavy pressure prevailed on bowlers. Kolkata Knight Riders are very inconsistent, thats why there are in this postion right now.

Umar Gul may replaced Shoaib. Rajasthan Royals are on the top of the table and they dont have any worries but they don't want to lose there momentum as well.Warne target was to knock out the knight riders from the IPL , he will be still remembering there last encounter were he was not satified with Ganguly's behaviour on the field.The match was indeed worth watching and Rajasthan royals rocked the ground!!!!!!

Kolkata Knight Riders : Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez, Sourav Ganguly (capt), Debabrata Das, David Hussey, Laxmi Shukla, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ajit Agarkar, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda, Umar Gul

Rajasthan Royals : Graeme Smith, Swapnil Asnodkar, Shane Watson, Yusuf Pathan, Mohammad Kaif, Ravindra Jadeja, Shane Warne (wk), Sohail Tanvir, Mahesh Rawat, Siddharth Trivedi, Munaf Patel