IPL 2015 Results: Scorecard, Fixtures and Table After Kolkata vs. Mumbai
Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders made a winning start to the 2015 IPL at Eden Gardens on Wednesday as they won the tournament opener, beating Mumbai Indians by seven wickets.
Rohit Sharma and Corey Anderson engineered a fine recovery for Mumbai after their terrible start batting first, the pair putting on 131 together to leave Kolkata chasing 169 for victory.
The 2014 champions were efficient in their pursuit of the target, skipper Gautam Gambhir's 57 the key knock as his side claimed a good victory.
Read on for a look at the early standings after the first day's play, and a full report of the Kolkata contest.
Latest IPL Standings
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| Pos | Team | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | Net RR | For | Against | Pts |
| 1 | KKR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.789 | 170/18.3 | 168/20.0 | 2 |
| 2 | CSK | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.000 | 0 | ||
| 3 | DD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.000 | 0 | ||
| 4 | KXIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.000 | 0 | ||
| 5 | RCB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.000 | 0 | ||
| 6 | RR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.000 | 0 | ||
| 7 | SRH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.000 | 0 | ||
| 8 | MI | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.789 | 168/20.0 | 170/18.3 | 0 |
Upcoming Schedule
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| Date | Time (BST) | Fixture |
| April 9 | 3:30 p.m | Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils |
| April 10 | 3:30 p.m | Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals |
| April 11 | 11:30 a.m. | Chennai Super Kings v Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| April 11 | 3:30 p.m | Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| April 12 | 11:30 a.m. | Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals |
| April 12 | 3:30 p.m | Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab |
| April 13 | 3:30 p.m | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| April 14 | 3:30 p.m | Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians |
| April 15 | 3:30 p.m | Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils |
| April 16 | 3:30 p.m | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals |
| April 17 | 3:30 p.m | Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings |
| April 18 | 11:30 a.m. | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Delhi Daredevils |
| April 18 | 3:30 p.m | Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders |
| April 19 | 11:30 a.m. | Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings |
| April 19 | 3:30 p.m | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians |
| April 20 | 3:30 p.m | Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders |
| April 21 | 3:30 p.m | Rajasthan Royals v Kings XI Punjab |
| April 22 | 11:30 a.m. | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Kolkata Knight Riders |
| April 22 | 3:30 p.m | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings |
| April 23 | 3:30 p.m | Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians |
| April 24 | 3:30 p.m | Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| April 25 | 11:30 a.m. | Mumbai Indians v Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| April 25 | 3:30 p.m | Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab |
| April 26 | 11:30 a.m. | Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals |
| April 26 | 3:30 p.m | Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| April 27 | 3:30 p.m | Kings XI Punjab v Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| April 28 | 3:30 p.m | Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders |
| April 29 | 3:30 p.m | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals |
| April 30 | 3:30 p.m | Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings |
| May 1 | 11:30 a.m. | Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab |
| May 1 | 3:30 p.m | Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals |
| May 2 | 11:30 a.m. | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders |
| May 2 | 3:30 p.m | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Chennai Super Kings |
| May 3 | 11:30 a.m. | Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians |
| May 3 | 3:30 p.m | Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils |
| May 4 | 11:30 a.m. | Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| May 4 | 3:30 p.m | Kolkata Knight Riders v Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| May 5 | 3:30 p.m | Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils |
| May 6 | 3:30 p.m | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab |
| May 7 | 11:30 a.m. | Rajasthan Royals v Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| May 7 | 3:30 p.m | Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils |
| May 8 | 3:30 p.m | Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians |
| May 9 | 11:30 a.m. | Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab |
| May 9 | 3:30 p.m | Delhi Daredevils v Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| May 10 | 11:30 a.m. | Mumbai Indians v Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| May 10 | 3:30 p.m | Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals |
| May 11 | 3:30 p.m | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Kings XI Punjab |
| May 12 | 3:30 p.m | Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings |
| May 13 | 3:30 p.m | Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| May 14 | 3:30 p.m | Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders |
| May 15 | 3:30 p.m | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| May 16 | 11:30 p.m. | Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings |
| May 16 | 3:30 p.m | Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders |
| May 17 | 11:30 a.m. | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Delhi Daredevils |
| May 17 | 3:30 p.m | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Mumbai Indians |
| May 19 | 3:30 p.m | Qualifier 1 - TBC v TBC |
| May 20 | 3:30 p.m | Eliminator - TBC v TBC |
| May 22 | 3:30 p.m | Qualifier 2 - TBC v TBC |
| May 24 | 3:30 p.m | Final - TBC v TBC |
Schedule courtesy of ESPN Cricinfo.
Kolkata Knight Riders Open Defence with Victory
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Kolkata Knight Riders (170/3) bt. Mumbai Indians (168/3) by seven wickets
Ahead of Wednesday's opener in Kolkata, it looked like anyone's game, with Kolkata and Mumbai seemingly relatively evenly matched.
Early wickets fell for the Indians, but Corey Anderson and Rohit Sharma made telling contributions. Mumbai would have wanted to set a bigger target ahead of play, however.
Kolkata Knight Riders looked composed in the chase and reached the 169 target with nine balls remaining as they started their IPL defence with a strong win.
KKR won the toss and elected to field first, and Morne Morkel took the wicket of danger-man Aaron Finch for five in the second over.
Rohit and Aditya Tare then engineered a mini partnership, before the latter fell for seven to Shakib Al Hasan in the fifth over.
Morkel's brilliant dismissal of Ambati Rayudu for a duck soon after left the Mumbai Indians struggling on 37-3, but Rohit and new-man Anderson forced their team back into the game.
Not another wicket fell for Mumbai as Rohit smashed an unbeaten 98 from 64 balls to move into second place in the IPL's all-time highest scorers, per cricket writer Freddie Wilde:
"Most IPL Runs: Raina 3325 Rohit: 3001 Gambhir: 2806 Gayle: 2708 Kohli: 2632 #IPL #KKRvMI #KKR #MI
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) April 8, 2015"
Anderson continued his form from the World Cup to ably assist his skipper with a quick-fire 55, including three maximums.
The pair managed to move Mumbai onto a relatively respectable score of 168 from their 20 overs, but it looked to potentially be under-par with Kolkata a strong batting unit.
| Rohit Sharma | not out | 98 | 65 | 12 | 4 | 150.8 |
| Aaron Finch | c Umesh b M Morkel | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 100.0 |
| Aditya Tare | c Umesh b Shakib | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 100.0 |
| Ambati Rayudu | c Y Pathan b M Morkel | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Corey Anderson | not out | 55 | 41 | 4 | 3 | 134.1 |
| Extras | 3 | (b - 0 w - 2, nb - 0, lb - 1) | ||||
| Total | 168 | (20 Overs, 3 Wickets) | ||||
| Umesh Yadav | 3 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 |
| Morne Morkel | 4 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 4 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12.0 |
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 |
| Andre Russell | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 |
| Piyush Chawla | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 |
Robin Uthappa fell early to Anderson, for nine in the third over. However, Kolkata never looked hugely troubled, and skipper Gautam Gambhir and Manish Pandey moved the score rapidly to 98.
Mumbai put down a couple of key catches, but eventually got their second wicket, as Pandey miscued a heave to Kieron Pollard off the bowling of Harbhajan Singh.
The rapid scoring from Kolkata did not slow, though, as new batsman Suryakumar Yadav eased his second ball for six over deep square leg.
Gambhir was dismissed for 57 in the 15th over, but with wickets in hand, the Knight Riders were in the driving seat.
| Robin Uthappa | c Harbhajan b CJ Anderson | 9 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 75.0 |
| Gautam Gambhir | c Rayudu b Bumrah | 57 | 43 | 7 | 1 | 132.6 |
| Manish Pandey | c K Pollard b Harbhajan | 40 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 166.7 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | not out | 46 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 230.0 |
| Yusuf Pathan | not out | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 116.7 |
| Extras | 4 | (b - 0 w - 2, nb - 0, lb - 2) | ||||
| Total | 170 | (18.3 Overs, 3 Wickets) | ||||
| Lasith Malinga | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6.8 |
| Vinay Kumar | 3.3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 |
| Corey Anderson | 2 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.5 |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 3 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12.7 |
| Pragyan Ojha | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.5 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 |
The 17th over was telling as Yadav and Yusuf Pathan hit 20 from it, leaving Kolkata needing just a run a ball to win.
Even Lasith Malinga was victim of some huge hitting, and Kolkata eventually cruised to victory in the penultimate over with seven wickets to spare.
Mumbai will look to bounce back when they face Kings XI Punjab in their second match on Sunday, while Kolkata have Royal Challengers Bangalore next up.
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