Our bowlers set the game for us: Gautam Gambhir

Bulletin by Shwe Wai

JOHANNESBURG: It was a brilliant all-round performance by Delhi Daredevils as they cruised to a seven-wicket victory against Kolkata Knight Riders in the DLF Indian Premier League tie at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. Delhi Daredevils captain Gautam Gambhir attributed the win to the bowlers.

"We are happy to have consolidated our position in the point's table. Our bowlers set the game for us," he said. "Our top order clicked too. So it was a much easy win. We were not chasing a big total, so our gameplan was to keep our wickets intact and accelerate towards the end and we succeeded in that."

Gambhir that there were still five more games to go and they would like to keep the momentum going. "Winning should become our habit now. We will keep up with our performance as we don't want to lose our momentum," he said.

Man-of-the-match Amit Mishra was happy to get the award and said that he was quite satisfied with his bowling in the last three or four games. "I am happy to have taken three wickets today. I have been bowling well in the last few games," he said. "As a leg-spinner, it's not that easy in this format of the game but I am enjoying my bowling. I am just bowling my leg spin and trying to create pressure for the batsmen with my turn."

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Brendon McCullum was a disappointed man again, unable to get his side to find the combination. "We could get enough runs on the board. On this kind of a pitch, we can't think of winning by setting a target of 123 runs. Now our aim is to keep trying and keep the spirits up for the next games," he said.

Knight Riders all-rounder Ajit Agarkar was candid in admitting that nothing had gone well for his team "Honestly, we have not been playing well. We have not been up to the standards. We need to bat well, bowl well and field well," he said. Agarkar was happy to get runs but individual performance hardly mattered in the lost cause.