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| Venue | Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 8th May 2008 (20-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Kolkata Knight Riders won by 5 runs |
| Points | Kolkata Knight Riders 2; Royal Challengers Bangalore 0 |
| Umpires | Asad Rauf (Pakistan), IL Howell (South Africa) |
| TV umpire | BR Doctrove (West Indies) |
| Referee | FM Engineer |
| Man of the Match | SC Ganguly |
| Audio-Video | Tamil Audio Match Report |
| Kolkata Knight Riders innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AS Chopra | lbw b Steyn | 2 | 5 | - | - | 40.00 | |
| BJ Hodge | c Vinay Kumar b Khan | 10 | 11 | 2 | - | 90.91 | |
| *SC Ganguly | run out (White) | 20 | 22 | 2 | - | 90.91 | |
| DJ Hussey | run out (Steyn->Boucher) | 26 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 216.67 | |
| T Taibu | c Boucher b Steyn | 15 | 12 | 2 | - | 125.00 | |
| LR Shukla | b Steyn | 11 | 9 | 2 | - | 122.22 | |
| +WP Saha | not out | 17 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 170.00 | |
| M Kartik | c and b P Kumar | 17 | 13 | 2 | - | 130.77 | |
| Umar Gul | not out | 6 | 2 | - | 1 | 300.00 | |
| I Sharma | did not bat | ||||||
| AB Dinda | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 16 overs) | 129 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Chopra, 2.1 ov), 2-20 (Hodge, 3.3 ov), 3-46 (Ganguly, 7.3 ov), 4-64 (Hussey, 8.6 ov), 5-80 (Taibu, 11.2 ov), 6-88 (Shukla, 11.5 ov), 7-122 (Kartik, 15.4 ov) | |||||||
| Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Steyn | 4 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 1 | - | 8.00 | 6.75 |
| Khan | 3 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 1 | - | 18.00 | 9.00 |
| P Kumar | 3 | 0 | 36 | 1 | - | - | 18.00 | 12.00 |
| Vinay Kumar | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Kumble | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| J Arunkumar | run out (Hodge) | 22 | 17 | 5 | - | 129.41 | |
| S Chanderpaul | c Kartik b Sharma | 7 | 11 | 1 | - | 63.64 | |
| +MV Boucher | not out | 50 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 125.00 | |
| *RS Dravid | b Ganguly | 5 | 11 | - | - | 45.45 | |
| CL White | run out (Kartik) | 30 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 187.50 | |
| P Kumar | not out | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 200.00 | |
| R Vinay Kumar | did not bat | ||||||
| V Kohli | did not bat | ||||||
| Z Khan | did not bat | ||||||
| A Kumble | did not bat | ||||||
| DW Steyn | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 16 overs) | 124 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Chanderpaul, 3.3 ov), 2-32 (Arunkumar, 4.5 ov), 3-51 (Dravid, 9.1 ov), 4-96 (White, 14.1 ov) | |||||||
| Kolkata Knight Riders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Dinda | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.67 |
| Sharma | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 6.25 |
| Umar Gul | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 10.00 |
| Ganguly | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 18.00 | 2.33 |
| Kartik | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 12.00 |
| Shukla | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 15.00 |