Deccan Chargers innings:
20th over: Deccan 126 for 7 Dale Styen greets Sunil Narine with a six but falls off the next ball. Narine takes his second. 11 runs come off the last six balls.
Steyn c Tiwary b Narine 7 (3)
19th over: Deccan 115 for 6 Ankit Sharma is the next batsman to go. Tries to go for a big shot but finds Gambhir, who takes the skier with some difficulty. It almost came out of his hands. Balaji, meanwhile, has been on the on the money from his first ball. His four overs come to an end. He has taken two wickets at the expense of just 22 runs.
Ankit Sharma c Gambhir b Balaji 1 (2)
18th over: Deccan 111 for 5 Now Ishank Jaggi departs. Tries to hit Sunil Narine out of the park but he bungles it big time as the ball goes high in the air and Brendon McCullum takes an easy catch near long-on.
Jaggi c McCullum b Narine 3 (7)
17th over: Deccan 103 for 4 KKR are on top right now. Duminy and Jaggi are under tremendous pressure, understandably so. Just one run off Brett Lee, who has had a tremendous day at the office. Just 15 runs off four overs with one wicket.
16th over: Deccan 102 for 4 Dhawan notches up his fifty. It's turning out to be a good season for him. Hang on. I should not have said that as the very next ball, he picks out Subrata Das at deep mid-wicket. Bhatia gets his first wicket, while Das takes his second successive catch. This wicket is certainly going to hurt. Nothing is going right for Deccan at present.
Dhawan c Das b Bhatia 50 (50)
15th over: Deccan 98 for 3 Brett Lee returns and sends back compatriot White, who tries to pull it out of the park. The execution is poor and he holes out to Subrata Das at deep square leg. Just three runs off the over. Great stuff by Lee.
White c Das b Lee 10 (9)
14th over: Deccan 95 for 2 Bhatia continues. White takes a four, past short third-man. He is key for Deccan, for sure. If he gets it right, it will surely be a challenging total on the board. The second strategic time-out takes effect.
13th over: Deccan 87 for 2 Sunil Narine bowls a tidy over. Just three runs off it. The big-hitting Cameron White is the new man in. Here comes Shah Rukh Khan to a rousing acknowledgement from the crowd.
12th over: Deccan 84 for 2 Parthiv Patel runs himself out. There was never a two as the sweeper cover throws it straight to bowler Bhatia who removes the bails at the non-striker's end. The left-hander could not return in time.
Patel run out 23 (19)
11th over: Deccan 76 for 1 11 runs come off the Balaji over with Dhawan picking up a four off the second ball.
10th over: Deccan 67 for 1 Rajat Bhatia comes to bowl. A quiet over by means. The last few overs have been pretty dull. Some big shots are the need of the hour.
9th over: Deccan 61 for 1 Parthiv gets his first boundary. Leaves his crease and plays the ball through the covers. No chance for the fieldsman. Kallis is not happy with himself, it seems. Tiwary denies Dhawan a boundary as he fields superbly at backward point.
8th over: Deccan 53 for 1 The fifty is up for the hosts. Parthiv survives a close catch. Brendon McCullum dives full length at cover but the ball is out of his reach. It was a leading edge. Another superb over from Balaji.
7th over: Deccan 48 for 1 Jacques Kallis takes over and concedes nine runs with Dhawan taking a four. Parthiv also played very well against Delhi and he must be looking to continue his good form here as well.
6th over: Deccan 39 for 1 Lakshmipathy Baljai comes into the attack. And lo and behold, he cleans up Kumar Sangakkara. The Sri Lanka captain shows him his stumps while attempting a big shot but his bat fails to connect with the ball and the result is not good for Deccan. Parthiv Patel is the next batsman in.
Sangakkara b Balaji 12 (15)
5th over: Deccan 35 for 0 Five runs come off the Sunil Narine over. The West Indian does a great job and except the fifth ball when he conceded a four to Dhawan, the rest of the over is quite unplayable.
4th over: Deccan 30 for 0 Dhawan pulls Brett Lee for a four through deep square leg. He is already in his stride. He gets another boundary, this time through the covers and it's been hit powerfully. Lee comes back nicely by conceding nothing off the last two balls. Still nine runs off the over.
3rd over: Deccan 21 for 0 Dhawan and Sanga now tear into Yusuf Pathan. Dhawan hits a massive six over long-on. Sangakkara gets a four off the penultimate ball.
2nd over: Deccan 8 for 0 Just three runs from the Brett Lee over. Despite having undergone many surgeries in the last couple of years, the Aussie has not lost his sting one bit. He is as formidable as ever.
1st over: Deccan 5 for 0 Yusuf Pathan opens the bowling for Kolkata. Openers Kumar Sangakkara and Shikhar Dhawan play cautiously. Dhawan played a blinder of an innings in his team's last match against Delhi. Deccan fans must be hoping him to come good today as well.
9 p.m.: Finally it has cleared up. We are not far from the start. The news brings the smile back on the faces of the fans who have packed the stadium.
8.30 p.m.: The rain is intermittent in nature and that's what makes it frustrating for all the people out there. It stops one moment, begins the next. So are changing expressions on people's faces there.
8.10 p.m.: It's started raining again. The covers are back on. Nobody knows how long it will take to clear up. "Wait and watch" is all I can say right now. More bad news is coming from Cuttack: it does not seem it will start in a while as a big, threatening cloud cover is hanging over the stadium. It's not raining in spades but by the look of the cloud cover, one can't be too optimistic. Though the organisers are hopeful it will clear up soon.
7.30 p.m.: KKR field. Gautam Gambhir wins the toss and says his team will have a bowl. Deccan captain Kumar Sangakkra says he doesn't mind losing the loss as he would have batted first anyway. News is coming in that Cameron White, who captained Deccan in the first few matches in the absence of Sangakkara, returns to take Dan Christian's place. The teams will be out soon.
It's rained there quite a bit and the covers are on but word is that the match will begin soon.
Deccan Chargers: Kumar Sangakkara(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Parthiv Patel(w), Cameron White, Jean-Paul Duminy, Ishank Jaggi, Ankit Sharma, Amit Mishra, Dale Steyn, Anand Rajan, Veer Pratap Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders: Brendon McCullum, Gautam Gambhir(c), Manvinder Bisla(w), Jacques Kallis, Manoj Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Rajat Bhatia, Debabrata Das, Sunil Narine, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Brett Lee
7.15 p.m.: Welcome to the match number 29 of the Indian Premier League season five between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders at Cuttack. This is the first match here this season. Deccan Chargers are winless so far and they will be hoping that the new venue changes their fortunes. The Barabati Stadium played host to two out of seven of Deccan's home games in IPL 4 and on both occasions the hosts were on the winning side. Gautam Gambhir's Kolkata Knight Riders go into this match after a fine display against Punjab in their previous match. However, their best is yet to come. Out of the six matches so far, it's been 3 wins and 3 losses for them.
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