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Kolkata Night Riders beats Royal Challangers in IPL
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SportsDesk on 18 April, 2008 03:22:00
 
Ganguly's Kolkata Knight Riders have created havoc at the Chinnaswamy stadium
hammering the ball all around the park. The IPL extravaganza, which began with
much fanfare at Bangalore's Chinnaswamy stadium between Bangalore's Royal
Challengers and Kolkata's Knight Riders, proved to a cracker of a clash.
Despite the fact that Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting departed early, one man
has single handedly pulverised 'The Royal Challengers' bowling attack, all
thanks to a 53 ball hundred by Brendon McCullum. The first century of the
tournament coming in the opener as McCullum hit 14 sixes enroute to his
brilliant unbeaten 158 runs out of just 73 balls.
Shah Rukh Khan's batsmen finished on 222 runs in 20 overs. Chasing 222,
Dravid's Royal Challengers were all out  for 82 runs.  For Kolkata Knight
Riders, Ajit Agarkar picked up 3 wicekts.