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IPL Begins in UAE With Jacques Kallis Led Victory For Kolkata Knight Riders - Kridangan Sports
The inaugural match of the seventh edition of the IPL was won on Wednesday by the 2012 champions; Kolkata Knight Riders, who scored an emphatic 41 run victory over the 2013 champions, Mumbai Indians. Like a typically uncertain IPL game, the KKR victory could not have been predicted early in their innings, when Lasith Malinga, in his very first over, deceived Gautam Gambhir with a superbly bowled Yorker. Even later, KKR went about slowly against some controlled bowling from MI, who yielded only 28 runs, at the end of the 5th over. But KKR still had the formidable Jacques Kallis in the company of solid-looking Manish Pandey, both of whom finally got into their grooves. MI skipper, Rohit Sharma brought on his slow bowlers early on and they prevented free scoring. By the 10th over, KKR had only reached the score of 63/1, of which 35 were conceded in 2 overs each, by Corey Anderson and Harbhajan Singh. In the 2nd over,