Irfan, Morne script Daredevils' 8-wicket win over Knight Riders
Updated On: 06 April, 2012 01:12 AM IST | | PTI
Delhi Daredevils' Irfan Pathan and Morne Morkel script the perfect start to the IPL campaign by demolishing Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets.
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Irfan Pathan scored a brisk unbeaten 42 to guide Delhi Daredevils to a comfortable eight-wicket win over hosts Kolkata Knight Riders in a rain-curtailed 12-overs-a-side IPL 5 match on Thursday.u00a0
Irfan struck three sixes and two boundaries to help Delhi reach 100 with five balls to spare and make a winning start to their IPL 5 campaign.u00a0
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But the win was set up by South African pacer Morne Morkel, who scalped three wickets for 18 runs. Umesh Yadav and Roelof van der Merwe chipped in with two wickets apiece to restrict the Knight Riders to 97 for nine after they were put into bat following a two-and-half hours rain delay.u00a0
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Morne Morkel was the chiefu00a0architect of the Knight Riders collapse. Pic/AFP
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