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Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date & Time: Saturday, May 14, 2016, at 8:00 pm IST (2:30 pm GMT)
Umpires: Chris Gaffaney, Bruce Oxenford
Third Umpire: Nand Kishore
Match Referee: Chinmay Sharma
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Rising Pune Supergiants Squad
Playing XI
MS Dhoni (c & wk), Ajinkya Rahane, Usman Khawaja, George Bailey, Saurabh Tiwary, Thisara Perera, Irfan Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Adam Zampa, Murugan Ashwin, Ashok Dinda
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Bench
Albie Morkel, Ankit Sharma, Ankush Bains, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar, Ishant Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Jaskaran Singh, Peter Handscomb, Rajat Bhatia, RP Singh, Scott Boland
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Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
Playing XI
Gautam Gambhir (c), Robin Uthappa (wk), Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Morne Morkel, Ankit Rajpoot, Sunil Narine
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Bench
Brad Hogg, Chris Lynn, Colin Munro, Jason Holder, Jaydev Unadkat, Kuldeep Yadav, Manan Sharma, Rajagopal Sathish, Shaun Tait, Sheldon Jackson, Umesh Yadav
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Toss
Rising Pune Supergiants won the toss and opted to bat first.
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RISING PUNE SUPERGIANTS Innings
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| RISING PUNE SUPERGIANTS | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Ajinkya Rahane | b A Russell | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Usman Khawaja | c Suryakumar Yadav & b Shakib |
21 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 123.53 |
| George Bailey | st Uthappa & b Chawla | 33 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 122.22 |
| Saurabh Tiwary | c Uthappa & b Rajpoot | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 108.33 |
| Irfan Pathan | runout (Uthappa) | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 87.50 |
| MS Dhoni(c) & (wk) | not out | 8 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 36.36 |
| Thisara Perera | c M Pandey & b Chawla | 13 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 118.18 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | not out | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Adam Zampa | dnb | |||||
| Murugan Ashwin | dnb | |||||
| Ashok Dinda | dnb |
| Extras | 6 (b – 4, lb – 2, w – 0, nb – 0) | |
| Total | 160 for 5 in 20 overs | 160 (RR @ 8 rpo) |
| FALL OF WICKETS | ||
| 1/19 Ajinkya Rahane (2.4 ov.) |
2/26 Usman Khawaja (4.3 ov.) |
3/67 Saurabh Tiwary (9.4 ov.) |
| 4/74 George Bailey (10.3 ov.) |
5/87 Irfan Pathan (13.5 ov.) |
6/102 Thisara Perera (16.2 ov.) |
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Andre Russell | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 5.50 |
| Morne Morkel | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 3 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 7.00 |
| Ankit Rajpoot | 2 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 7.00 |
| Piyush Chawla | 4 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 5.25 |
| Sunil Narine | 3.4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2.72 |
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Rain delayed play. When the play restarted at 11:45 pm there was a revision in the revised target. Kolkata Knight Riders had to chase 66 in 9 overs.
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KOLKOTA KNIGHT RIDERS Innings
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| KOLKOTA KNIGHT RIDERS | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Robin Uthappa (wk) | st Dhoni & b Ashwin | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 400 |
| Gautam Gambhi r(c) | lbw Ashwin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Manish Pandey | not out | 15 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 150 |
| Yusuf Pathan | not out | 37 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 205.56 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | dnb | |||||
| Shakib Al Hasan | dnb | |||||
| Andre Russell | dnb | |||||
| Piyush Chawla | dnb | |||||
| Morne Morkel | dnb | |||||
| Ankit Rajpoot | dnb | |||||
| Sunil Narine | dnb |
| Extras | 10 (b – 1, lb – 1, w – 8, nb – 0) | |
| Total | 66 for 2 in 5 overs | 66 (RR @ 13.2 rpo) |
| FALL OF WICKETS | ||
| 1/5 Robin Uthappa (0.1 ov.) |
2/8 Gautam Gambhir (0.3 ov.) |
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 2 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 15 |
| Ashok Dinda | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| Murugan Ashwin | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| Adam Zampa | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
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Kolkata Knight Riders won by 8 wickets (DLS methods).
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Vivo IPL 2016 – Points Table
| Teams | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | Pts | NRR |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | +0.417 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | +0.373 |
| Gujarat Lions | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | -0.747 |
| Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.376 |
| Mumbai Indians | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -0.435 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +0.627 |
| Kings XI Punjab | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -0.384 |
| Rising Pune Supergiants | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -0.078 |
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