Shakib struck a 49-ball 66 with four sixes and as many fours while Pathan came up with a 41-ball 63 that had seven shots to fence and one over the ropes. The Lions had bolstered their spin line-up by bringing in leg-spinner Pravin Tambe to bowl alongside Ravindra Jadeja and Shivil Kaushik but the trio failed to make any impact on the Eden wicket. In the next over, Yadav tried to break free to guide the ball over Raina at the slip but the the left-handed skipper took a stunning catch jumping high in the air and plucked the ball with his right hand to make it four-down for the Knights inside the Powerplay.Yusuf Pathan (63*) struck seven fours and one six in his 41-ball innings. Gambhir b Kumar 5, M. Pathan, who had scored a match-winning 60 not out from 29 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore, completed his half-century in 31 balls.ScoreboardKolkata Knight Riders: R.Praveen had a dream start and also bowled a maiden to Suryakumar Yadav for a fine spell of 3-1-7-2 to make things worse for KKR. FoW: 1-15, 2-15, 3-21, 4-24. Yadav c Raina b Smith 4, Shakib Al Hasan (not out) 66, Y.On a day when their successful opening duo of Robin Uthappa (14) and Gautam Gambhir (5) failed, Pathan and Shakib came to team’s rescue as the Gujarat Lions failed to make any further inroad. With Pathan taking charge, Shakib did well to rotate the strike as the duo scripted an amazing recovery and Raina’s spin trio of Shivil, Tambe and Jadeja failed to give any breakthrough.Praveen took two wickets in three balls to reduce KKR to 15/2 in the third over before Dhawal Kularni made it 21/3 in the next.. Extras (lb2, w4) 6.Bowling: Kumar 4-1-19-2, Kulkarni 4-0-30-1 (1w), Smith 2-0-14-1 (1w), Bravo 4-0-39-0 (1w), Kaushik 1-0-14-0, Jadeja 3-0-25-0, Tambe 2-0-15-0. KKR almost suffered a fifth dismissal on 32/4 but Tambe dropped Shakib, then on three, at third man boundary

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