2012 Kolkata Knight Riders season

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Kolkata Knight Riders
2012 season
Coach Trevor Bayliss
Captain Gautam Gambhir
Ground(s) Eden Gardens, Kolkata
IPL Winners
CLT20 Group stage
Most runs Gautam Gambhir (590) [1]
Most wickets Sunil Narine (24) [2]

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) is a franchise cricket team based in Kolkata, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the nine teams that competed in the 2012 IPL. They were captained by Gautam Gambhir. Kolkata Knight Riders emerged as winners of the 2012 IPL and qualified for the Champions League T20.

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Background

Due to the disbanding of Kochi Tuskers Kerala, each team played the remaining eight teams twice, once at home and once away. Therefore, each team played 16 matches. KKR bought back Brendon McCullum for $900,000 and West Indies Sunil Narine for $700,000. They also bought South-African Marchant de Lange for $50,000. The team replaced coach Dav Whatmore by Trevor Bayliss. [3] Kolkata Knight Riders also launched a new marketing campaign titled "New Dawn. New Knights" and a new logo. [4]

KKR got off to a poor start in the tournament, losing their first two games against Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Royals. However, they fought back with consecutive wins over Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals. In the next match, however, they messed up an easy chase against Kings XI Punjab, losing narrowly by 2 runs. KKR's West Indian spinner Sunil Narine took the only five-wicket haul of the tournament (5–19) in that match and despite his team losing, he was declared as the Man of The Match. KKR then went on to win six matches in a row (except for a washed-out match against Deccan Chargers). However, the team's performances dipped in the following two matches, losing against Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. Eventually the team had a timely return to form, when they beat Mumbai Indians and Pune Warriors India in successive away matches, with the side bowling economically to defend average totals. This earned a second-place finish for the team at the end of the league stage and a semi-final match against Delhi Daredevils. An all-round performance from them saw Delhi being defeated by 18 runs, and KKR also qualifying for their maiden IPL final.

The final between the Knight Riders and the defending two-time champions Chennai Super Kings was held at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium. [5] A hamstring injury to Lakshmipathy Balaji resulted in the inclusion of Brett Lee and due to him being a foreign player, the team was required to leave out their wicket-keeper batsman Brendon McCullum to maintain the cap of 4 foreign players. Manvinder Bisla was brought in to replace McCullum. [5] The team eventually won the match with the help of some impressive batting performance by Bisla (89 from 48 balls) and Jacques Kallis (69 from 49 balls) to become the champions of the tournament for the first time. [5] Manvinder Bisla was declared Man of the Match and Sunil Narine was named Man of the Series. [5]

Sunil Narine was the second-highest wicket-taker as well as player of the tournament, and also had the best economy rate in the tournament. [6] The batting was led by skipper Gautam Gambhir, who was the second-highest run-getter of the tournament and scored 6 half-centuries out of a total of 11 from his team. [7] [8]

The state of West Bengal set up a grand felicitation involving Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee and Governor of West Bengal M K Narayanan . [9] The Cricket Association of Bengal gifted the 17 members of the team with gold chain each and mementos. [9] A victory parade for the team members was also organized on 28 May beginning from Hazra, Writers' Building to the Eden Garden stadium where ten thousand spectators came to cheer for the team during a one-hour celebration that was compared to the India's World Cup victory lap at the Wankhede in Mumbai the year before. [9] However, the celebration received criticism from media and certain political parties and had been ridiculed by some pools of society as it had only been organized for a club team. [9] Shahrukh Khan, the team's co-owner and the state's brand ambassador, defended the decision." [9]

Champions League Twenty20

KKR's maiden IPL victory in 2012 meant that they would now participate in the 2012 Champions League Twenty20 which was held in South Africa. They were in Group A along with Delhi Daredevils, Perth Scorchers, Auckland Aces and Titans. But disappointingly, they were eliminated in the group stage itself, winning only one game against the Titans, which they did so with a record breaking 99 run margin. This was the highest victory margin ever recorded in the CLT20 tournament. Losses to Delhi Daredevils and Auckland Aces followed by a washed out game against Perth meant that KKR finished 3rd in Group A and failed to qualify for the knock out stages of the tournament. [10]

Squad

Players with international caps prior to the 2012 season are listed in bold. [11]

No.NameNationalityBirth dateBatting StyleBowling StyleNotes
Batters
03 Gautam Gambhir Flag of India.svg  India 14 October 1981 (aged 30)Left-handedRight-arm leg break Captain
09 Manoj Tiwary Flag of India.svg  India 14 November 1985 (aged 26)Right-handedRight-arm leg break
16 Eoin Morgan Flag of England.svg  England 10 September 1986 (aged 25)Left-handedRight-arm medium Overseas
63 Debabrata Das Flag of India.svg  India 22 September 1986 (aged 25)Right-handedRight-arm leg break
All-rounders
03 Jacques Kallis Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 16 October 1975 (aged 36)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Vice-captain
06 Laxmi Ratan Shukla Flag of India.svg  India 6 May 1981 (aged 30)Right-handedRight-arm medium
22 Rajat Bhatia Flag of India.svg  India 22 October 1979 (aged 32)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
27 Ryan ten Doeschate Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 30 June 1980 (aged 31)Right-handedRight arm medium-fast Overseas
28 Yusuf Pathan Flag of India.svg  India 17 November 1982 (aged 29)Right-handedRight-arm off break
75 Shakib Al Hasan Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 24 March 1987 (aged 25)Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox Overseas
Chirag Jani Flag of India.svg  India 9 November 1989 (aged 22)Right-handedRight-arm medium
Wicket-keepers
24 Brad Haddin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 23 October 1977 (aged 34)Right-handedOverseas
36 Manvinder Bisla Flag of India.svg  India 27 December 1984 (aged 27)Right-handed
36 Brendon McCullum Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 27 September 1981 (aged 30)Right-handedRight-arm medium Overseas
Sanju Samson Flag of India.svg  India 11 November 1994 (aged 17)Right-handed
Bowlers
04 James Pattinson Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3 May 1990 (aged 21)Left-handedRight-arm fast-medium Overseas
08 Pradeep Sangwan Flag of India.svg  India 5 November 1990 (aged 21)Right-handedLeft-arm medium-fast
14 Shami Ahmed Flag of India.svg  India 9 March 1990 (aged 22)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
21 Iqbal Abdulla Flag of India.svg  India 2 December 1989 (aged 22)Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox
55 Lakshmipathy Balaji Flag of India.svg  India 27 September 1981 (aged 30)Right-handedRight arm medium-fast
58 Brett Lee Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 8 November 1976 (aged 35)Right-handedRight-arm fast Overseas
74 Sunil Narine WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 26 May 1988 (aged 23)Left-handedRight-arm off break Overseas
90 Marchant de Lange Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 13 October 1990 (aged 21)Right-handedRight-arm fast Overseas
99 Jaydev Unadkat Flag of India.svg  India 18 October 1991 (aged 20)Right-handedLeft-arm medium-fast
Iresh Saxena Flag of India.svg  India 14 March 1984 (aged 28)Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
Sarabjit Ladda Flag of India.svg  India 10 July 1986 (aged 25)Right-handedRight-arm leg break

Indian Premier League

Season standings

Kolkata Knight Riders finished runners-up in the league stage of IPL 2012.

PosTeamPldWLNRPts NRR
1 Delhi Daredevils (3rd)161150220.617
2 Kolkata Knight Riders (C)161051210.561
3 Mumbai Indians (4th)16106020−0.100
4 Chennai Super Kings (RU)16871170.100
5 Royal Challengers Bangalore 1687117−0.022
6 Kings XI Punjab 1688016−0.216
7 Rajasthan Royals 16790140.201
8 Deccan Chargers 1641119−0.509
9 Pune Warriors India 1641208−0.551
Source: [12]

Match log

No.DateOpponentVenueResultScorecard
15 April Delhi Daredevils Kolkata Lost by 8 wickets Score Card
28 April Rajasthan Royals Jaipur Lost by 22 runs Score Card
310 April Royal Challengers Bangalore Bengaluru Won by 42 runs, MoM – Lakshmipathy Balaji 4/18 Score Card
413 April Rajasthan Royals Kolkata Won by 5 wickets, MoM – Shakib Al Hasan 3/17 & 16 (10) Score Card
515 April Kings XI Punjab Kolkata Lost by 2 runs, MoM – Sunil Narine 5/19 Score Card
618 April Kings XI Punjab Mohali Won by 8 wickets, MoM – Gautam Gambhir 66* (44) Score Card
722 April Deccan Chargers Cuttack Won by 5 wickets,MoM – Brett Lee 1/15 Score Card
824 April Deccan Chargers Kolkata Match Abandoned without a ball bowled Scorecard
928 April Royal Challengers Bangalore Kolkata Won by 47 runs,MoM – Gautam Gambhir 93 (51) Score Card
1030 April Chennai Super Kings Chennai Won by 5 wickets, MoM- Gautam Gambhir 63(52) Score Card
115 May Pune Warriors India Kolkata Won by 7 runs, MoM – Sunil Narine 1/13 Score Card
127 May Delhi Daredevils New Delhi Won by 6 wickets, MoM – Jacques Kallis 2/20,30 (27) Score Card
1312 May Mumbai Indians Kolkata Lost by 27 runs Score Card
1414 May Chennai Super Kings Kolkata Lost by 5 wickets Score Card
1516 May Mumbai Indians Mumbai Won by 32 runs, MoM – Sunil Narine 4/15 Score Card
1619 May Pune Warriors India Pune Won by 34 runs, MoM – Shakib Al Hasan 42 (30) & 2/18 Score Card
1722 May Delhi Daredevils (Qualifier 1) Pune Won by 18 runs, MoM – Yusuf Pathan 40* (21) Score Card
1827 May Chennai Super Kings (Final) Chennai won by 5 wickets, MoM – Manvinder Bisla 89 (48) Score Card
Overall record: 12–5. Champions. Qualified for 2012 Champions League Twenty20

Champions League Twenty20

Match log

No.DateOpponentVenueResultMatch Scorecard
113 October Delhi Daredevils Centurion Lost by 52 runs Scorecard
215 October Auckland Aces Cape Town Lost by 7 wickets Scorecard
317 October Perth Scorchers Durban Match abandoned due to rain Scorecard
421 October Titans Cape Town Won by 99 runs, MoM – Debabrata Das – 43* (19) Scorecard
Overall record: 1–2. Failed to advance.

References

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