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Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date & Time: Sunday, May 08, 2016, at 8:00 pm IST (2:30 pm GMT)
Umpires: Marais Erasmus, Rod Tucker
Third Umpire: Krishnamachari Bharatan
Match Referee: Javagal Srinath
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Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
Playing XI
Gautam Gambhir (c), Robin Uthappa (wk), Manish Pandey, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Brad Hogg, Morne Morkel, Umesh Yadav
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Bench
Ankit Rajpoot, Chris Lynn, Colin Munro, Jason Holder, Jaydev Unadkat, Kuldeep Yadav, Manan Sharma, Rajagopal Sathish, Sheldon Jackson, Sunil Narine
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Gujarat Lions Squad
Playing XI
Suresh Raina (c), Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Aaron Finch, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pravin Tambe, Shivil Kaushik
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Bench
Akshdeep Nath, Amit Mishra, Andrew Tye, Dale Steyn, Eklavya Dwivedi, Ishan Kishan, James Faulkner, Jaydev Shah, Paras Dogra, Pradeep Sangwan, Sarabjit Ladda, Shadab Jakati, Umang Sharma
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Toss
Gujarat Lions won the toss and opted to bowl.
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KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS Innings
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| KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Robin Uthappa (wk) | c D Karthik & b D Kulkarni |
14 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 140.00 |
| Gautam Gambhir (c) | b P Kumar | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 83.33 |
| Manish Pandey | c D Karthik & b P Kumar |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | c Raina & b Dwayne Smith |
4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | not out | 66 | 49 | 4 | 4 | 134.69 |
| Yusuf Pathan | not out | 61 | 41 | 7 | 1 | 153.66 |
| Andre Russell | dnb | |||||
| Piyush Chawla | dnb | |||||
| Brad Hogg | dnb | |||||
| Morne Morkel | dnb | |||||
| Umesh Yadav | dnb |
| Extras | 6 (b – 0, lb – 2, w – 4, nb – 0) | |
| Total | 158 for 4 in 20 overs) | 158 (RR @ 7.9 rpo) |
| FALL OF WICKETS | ||
| 1/15 Gautam Gambhir (2.1 ov.) |
2/15 Manish Pandey (2.3 ov.) |
3/21 Robin Uthappa (3.3 ov.) |
| 4/24 Suryakumar Yadav (5.5 ov.) |
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Praveen Kumar | 4 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 4.75 |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 |
| Dwayne Smith | 2 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 7.00 |
| Dwayne Bravo | 4 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 9.75 |
| Shivil Kaushik | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8.33 |
| Pravin Tambe | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7.5 |
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GUJARAT LIONS Innings
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| GUJARAT LIONS | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Dwayne Smith | b Shakib | 27 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 150.00 |
| Brendon McCullum | c M Pandey & b Chawla |
29 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 120.83 |
| Suresh Raina (c) | c B Hogg & b A Russell | 14 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 77.78 |
| Dinesh Karthik (wk) | st Uthappa & b B Hogg | 51 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 175.86 |
| Aaron Finch | runout (M Pandey) | 29 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 290.00 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | not out | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 |
| Dwayne Bravo | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Praveen Kumar | dnb | |||||
| Dhawal Kulkarni | dnb | |||||
| Pravin Tambe | dnb | |||||
| Shivil Kaushik | dnb |
| Extras | 5 (b – 0, lb – 0, w – 5, nb – 0) | |
| Total | 164 for 5 in 18 over | 164 (RR @ 9.11 rpo) |
| FALL OF WICKETS | ||
| 1/42 Dwayne Smith (5.3 ov.) |
2/67 Brendon McCullum (7.5 ov.) |
3/116 Suresh Raina (13.5 ov.) |
| 4/155 Dinesh Karthik (16.3 ov.) |
5/158 Aaron Finch (17.4 ov.) |
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Andre Russell | 3 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 7.00 |
| Morne Morkel | 4 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 9.5 0 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 3 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 12.67 |
| Piyush Chawla | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 |
| Brad Hogg | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 9.50 |
| Umesh Yadav | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 9.00 |
Gujarat Lions won by 5 wickets.
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Praveen Kumar – “Man of the Match”
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VIVO IPL 2016 – Points Table
| Teams | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | Pts | Net RR |
| Gujarat Lions | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | -0.138 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.609 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.206 |
| Delhi Daredevils | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +0.309 |
| Mumbai Indians | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | -0.447 |
| Rising Pune Supergiants | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +0.118 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +0.027 |
| Kings XI Punjab | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -0.622 |
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