{"id":1267,"date":"2014-10-01T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2014-11-30T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:39:25","slug":"clt20-2014-kolkata-knight-riders-vs-hobart-hurricanes-match-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/clt20-2014-kolkata-knight-riders-vs-hobart-hurricanes-match-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"CLT20 2014 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Hobart Hurricanes – Match Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kolkata-Knight-Riders-vs-Hobart-Hurricanes-1st-Semi-Final-CLt20-380x202\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kolkata Knight Riders V\/S Hobart Hurricanes<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st Semi Final, Hyderabad<\/p>\n

With the tournament nicely warmed up, The IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders will<\/p>\n

take on the Hobart Hurricanes in the first Semi Final of the Champions League 2014 at<\/p>\n

Hyderabad. The Gambhir led KKR are in red hot form with 13 consecutive wins and have<\/p>\n

been unbeaten in this Tournament . On the other hand the Hobart Hurricanes have<\/p>\n

done reasonably with 3 wins out of 4 matches.<\/p>\n

Pitch and Conditions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Uppal track is a good T20 track with something in it for the spinners. Teams<\/p>\n

batting second have fared better at the Uppal in this tournament. The side winning the<\/p>\n

toss is likely to field first as the match is a 4pm start and the dew factor may play a<\/p>\n

role during the second half of the match.<\/p>\n

Kolkata Knight Riders<\/strong><\/p>\n

KKR have been the side to beat in this tournament notching up 4 wins in as many<\/p>\n

matches.KKR have a good opening pair in Gambhir and Uthhapa, the latter being very<\/p>\n

consistent at the top of the order. Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan<\/p>\n

and Andre Russell all have played their part at some point in the tournament except<\/p>\n

the experienced Kallis who is yet to fire.<\/p>\n

The bowling is well balanced with the spin trio of Chawla, Narine and the young Kuldeep<\/p>\n

Yadav foxing the opponents with their variations .The pace bowling doesn\u2019t play much<\/p>\n

of a part in the KKR strategy with Russell,Yadav and Kallis making up for the seamers .<\/p>\n

Also Yusuf Pathan has chipped in with his economical off spin at crucial junctures.<\/p>\n

Hobart Hurricanes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The batting is a worry for the Hurricanes as only Blizzard and Malik have been<\/p>\n

consistently among the runs. Dunk has had one good innings while skipper Paine has been<\/p>\n

unable to make an impact with the bat.<\/p>\n

The seam bowling seems well covered with Hilfenhaus, Laughlin, Bollinger and Mennie<\/p>\n

bowling well. Doherty will have to bowl exceptionally well as he is the lone recognised<\/p>\n

spinner along with the part time spin of Malik.<\/p>\n

PS: This preview is written by intern Nipun Vinod Desai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolkata Knight Riders V\/S Hobart Hurricanes 1st Semi Final, Hyderabad With the tournament nicely warmed up, The IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders will take on the Hobart Hurricanes in the first Semi Final of the Champions League 2014 at Hyderabad. The Gambhir led KKR are in red hot form with 13 consecutive wins and have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,70],"tags":[249,271,270,280],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clt20-2014","category-featured","tag-clt20","tag-hobart-hurricanes","tag-kolkata-knight-riders","tag-match-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}