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Venue: Green Park, Kanpur
Date & Time: Thursday, May 19, 2016, at 8:00 pm IST (2:30 pm GMT)
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary, Nandan
Third Umpire: Anil Dandekar
Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama
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Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
Playing XI
Gautam Gambhir (c), Robin Uthappa (wk), Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Jason Holder, Piyush Chawla, Sunil Narine, Ankit Rajpoot, Morne Morkel
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Bench
Andre Russell, Brad Hogg, Chris Lynn, Colin Munro, Jaydev Unadkat, Kuldeep Yadav, Manan Sharma, Rajagopal Sathish, Shaun Tait, Sheldon Jackson, Umesh Yadav
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Gujarat Lions Squad
Playing XI
Suresh Raina (c), Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Ravindra Jadeja, Aaron Finch, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Dwayne Bravo, Eklavya Dwivedi, Praveen Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shadab Jakati
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Bench
Akshdeep Nath, Amit Mishra, Andrew Tye, Dale Steyn, Ishan Kishan, James Faulkner, Jaydev Shah, Paras Dogra, Pradeep Sangwan, Pravin Tambe, Sarabjit Ladda, Shivil Kaushik, 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 Dwayne Smith |
25 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 131.58 |
| Gautam Gambhir (c) | runout (Jakati) | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Manish Pandey | c Raina & b Dwayne Smith |
1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Piyush Chawla | b Dwayne Smith | 11 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 68.75 |
| Yusuf Pathan | c Raina & b D Kulkarn |
36 | 36 | 3 | 1 | 100 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | c Dwivedi & b Dwayne Smith |
3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 38.75 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | c D Kulkarni & b Jakati |
14 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 121.43 |
| Jason Holder | c Finch & b DJ Bravo |
13 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 162.50 |
| Sunil Narine | not out | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 |
| Morne Morkel | not out | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Morne Morkel | dnb |
| Extras | 7 (b – 0, lb – 2, w – 5, nb – 0) | |
| Total | 124 for 8 in 20 overs | 124 (RR @ 6.2 rpo) |
| FALL OF WICKETS | ||
| 1/23 Gautam Gambhir (3.1 ov.) |
2/34 Manish Pandey (4.2 ov.) |
3/44 Robin Uthappa (6.2 ov.) |
| 4/55 Piyush Chawla (9.2 ov.) |
5/61 Shakib Al Hasan (11.3 ov.) |
6/102 Suryakumar Yadav (16.5 ov.) |
| 7/120 Yusuf Pathan (18.2 ov.) |
8/122 Jason Holder (19.3 ov.) |
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Praveen Kumar | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6.00 |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 8.50 |
| Dwayne Smith | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2.00 |
| Dwayne Bravo | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 7.25 |
| Shadab Jakati | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 5.50 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.50 |
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GUJARAT LIONS Innings
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| GUJARAT LIONS | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Dwayne Smith | c Uthappa & b Rajpoot |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brendon McCullum | lbw Narine | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 200 |
| Suresh Raina (c) | not out | 53 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 147.22 |
| Dinesh Karthik (wk) | b M Morkel | 12 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 150 |
| Aaron Finch | runout (Uthappa) | 26 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 113.04 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | not out | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 110 |
| Dwayne Bravo | dnb | |||||
| Eklavya Dwivedi | dnb | |||||
| Praveen Kumar | dnb | |||||
| Dhawal Kulkarni | dnb | |||||
| Shadab Jakati | dnb |
| Extras | 17 (b – 0, lb – 1, w – 16, nb – 0) | |
| Total | 125 for 4 in 13.3 overs | 125 (RR @ 9.26 rpo) |
| FALL OF WICKETS | ||
| 1/0 Dwayne Smith (0.1 ov.) |
2/18 Brendon McCullum (1.2 ov.) |
3/38 Dinesh Karthik (3.5 ov.) |
| 4/97 Aaron Finch (9.5 ov.) |
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Ankit Rajpoot | 3 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 11.67 |
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 |
| Morne Morkel | 3.3 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 11.14 |
| Jason Holder | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7.00 |
| Yusuf Pathan | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 |
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Gujarat Lions won by 6 wickets.
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Dwayne Smith – “Man of the Match” for the second time.
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VIVO IPL 2016 – Points Table
| Teams | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | Pts | NRR |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +0.400 |
| Gujarat Lions | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | -0.479 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | +0.930 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | +0.022 |
| Mumbai Indians | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | -0.082 |
| Delhi Daredevils | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -0.125 |
| Rising Pune Supergiants | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.013 |
| Kings XI Punjab | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.693 |
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