IPL 2 Game 4: KKR Shown The Door By Charging Deccans

The controversy and the publicity did not help. Announcing that the change of captain would be happening in South Africa was an obvious matter that Sourav Ganguly would have to give way to Brendon McCullum in the safer environs of South Africa than simmering Kolkata. That did not help. Even Shah Rukh Khan apparently dropping Kolkata from the Knight Riders did not help as the team went down in embarrassing fashion to the flying Deccan Chargers.
It was a game of contrasts. While one team chose the path of calm strategy, the other appeared frenetic and out of sorts. Batting first, the Knight Riders fell apart with only Brad Hodge with decent figures of thirty-one. McCullum may have been a little unlucky with the lbw decision of RP Singh, who picked up four wickets for the match. But Chris Gayle flattered to deceive and Ganguly hung around tentatively in the face of a neat Fidel Edwards only to swing wildly to watch himself caught behind for just one off twelve balls and giving Harmeet Singh his first wicket.
The KKR finished admonishingly on 101 and all that the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers had to do was put their mind set to win and press for it. They did through the inform Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma, who has uncharacteristically been out of touch playing for India. The sixty-nine partnership was just the perfect strategy for the Chargers after the loss of captain Adam Gilchrist and VVS Laxman. How severe was the defeat for the Knight Riders can be told by the fact that the Deccan Chargers chased the target in just a ball over thirteen overs!
Wonder what will change in the Knight Riders dressing room now.