Yusuf Pathan's blitz leaves Kolkata numb

Earlier, Kolkata could never gain the kind of momentum needed to put up a challenging total. They were rattled early on as Munaf Patel removed the Pakistani opening pair of Mohammad Hafeez (four) and Salman Butt (24). Patel had Hafeez caught at mid-on in his first over after having just failed to take a return catch, and then trapped Butt lbw with a delivery that came in sharply at the left-hander.

David Hussey and Ganguly fell in trying to force the pace and the team was reduced to 95-4 in the 15th over. The other batsmen threw their bats around but could not get the better of an attack that has slowly but surely proved to be one of the best on view.

If Patel did the trick early on, left-arm seamer Sohail Tanvir ensured there was no fight-back from the home side to finish with 3-26 including the important scalps of Laxmi Rattan Shukla and Debabrata Das.

In their previous encounter at Jaipur, the home side had scored an easy 45-run victory. The match was followed by a war of words between skippers Ganguly and Warne following a contentious decision when Ganguly forced the umpires to refer it to the third umpire after Graeme Smith had claimed he had taken a clean catch.

It was the ninth win in 11 matches for Jaipur, and the seventh defeat in 12 matches for Kolkata.

Teams:

Kolkata: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez, David Hussey, Laxmi Rattan Shukla, Dababrata Das, Wriddhiman Saha, Ajit Agarkar, Umar Gul, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda.

Jaipur: Shane Warne (captain), Swapnil Asnodkar, Graeme Smith, Shane Watson, Yusuf Pathan, Mohammad Kaif, Ravindra Jadeja, Mahesh Rawat, Sohail Tanvir, Siddharth Trivedi, Munaf Patel.

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