The Superkings thrashed the riders with a 9-wicket win over them.
The Riders, having won both their previous two games, began promisingly with opener Brendon McCullum blazing away, but a twin strike by Oram broke the back of the Kolkata innings that never really recovered from these setbacks. Later in the innings Laxmi Ratan Shukla 42 batted carefully to strengthen the total. The Riders could only score 147/9 of 20 overs.
Jacob Oram picked up 3 for 32 runs in 4 overs. Amarnath too had a good figure of 2/29.
In reply the Super Kings batted sensibly taking no risks whatsoever and romped home with ease.
Matthew Hayden put on 66 for the first wicketwith Parthiv Patel 21, the highest opening stand in the tournament so far. Hayden scored 70* of 49 balls. Then it was the skipper's turn to finish the game in style. Dhoni scored 43* of 27 balls. The skipper kept his cool making right decisions at right time leading his team to their 3rd consecutive win in the league.
Jacob Oram was the Man Of the Match.
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