It won’t be right to say that Kolkata Knight Riders have revived their CLT20 campaign by beating Royal Challengers Bangalore convincingly on Thursday. It’s just that SRK’s team has kept its glimmer of hope alive while almost dousing Bangalore’s flame. Sitting at two points from three games, KKR is hardly the face of a [...]

  Riding on unbeaten half-centuries by Jacques Kallis and skipper Gautam Gambhir, Kolkata Knight Riders registered a convincing nine-wicket win over the Royal Challengers Bangalore in their must-win Champions League encounter here on Thursday. Kallis clobbered 64 off in just 47 deliveries, while Gambhir struck 55 in 32 balls. Chasing a competitive 170 runs for [...]

  Desperate to get off the mark, the two Indian clubs - Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders - will come face to face in their Champions League T20 encounter here on Thursday. The Challengers were outplayed by Warriors in the opening encounter, while KKR are on a losing streak - they have lost [...]

  Callum Ferguson struck 70 off just 40 balls and put on 84 runs for the fourth wicket with Daniel Christian (42 off 31) as South Australia Redbacks comfortably beat the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 19 runs in a Group B clash at the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 competition on Tuesday. The score proved [...]

  Is the South Australian Redbacks’ ploy of playing three specialist spinners in the Champions League backfiring on them? The strategy may have worked well from them in the Big Bash competition where the matches were played on bigger grounds. But here the smaller grounds make it more difficult for the bowlers as even a mishit may [...]

Indian opener and Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir insisted that he has completely recovered from the concussion he sustained during the recent tour of England even though he was out for a duck in his IPL team’s loss to Somerset in the Champions League Twenty20. “I am 100 per cent fit and that is why I was playing,” he [...]

  A gutsy cameo by Kolkata’s Dutch all-rounder Ryan ten Doeschate helped them qualify for the group stage even though Kolkata Knight Riders lost the match to Somerset by 11 runs at Hyderabad on Wednesday to end the qualifying event. Chasing 167,KKR finished at 155 for eight in their allotted 20 overs. Kolkata made heavy [...]

  Kolkata Knight Riders fought back to beat Auckland Aces by two runs in a thriller to register their first win in the Champions League Qualifiers in Hyderabad on Monday. Brett Lee delivered an excellent final over, conceding eight when Auckland needed eleven to win, with Kyle Mills and Andre Adams unable to get the [...]

  Kolkata Knight Riders, Sri Lanka’s Ruhunu Eleven, Trinidad and Tobago from the Caribbean, Kiwi side Auckland Aces and England’s Leicestershire and Somerset will fight it out in the Champions League T20 qualifiers beginning on Sep 19th for three spots in the main tournament that gets underway on Friday in Bangalore. In the first match [...]

  The Champions League T20 featuring the best cricket clubs from all over the world gets under way today. Trinidad and Tobago, Ruhuna Elevens, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Auckland Aces, Somerset and Leicestershire will first have to compete in the qualifying rounds in order to make it to the main stage.   KKR, who were ranked fourth in the fourth edition [...]