Following Kolkata Knight Riders victory over Mumbai Indians in the opening round of the IPL, we picked out the best tweets from the game at Eden Gardens.
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#KKR beat #MI by 7 wickets in the opening game. #MI 168/3, #KKR 170/3 (18.3 Ovs) Gambhir 57, Yadav 46*. Happy @iamsrk pic.twitter.com/HjNK4YkjtN
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL8_2015) April 8, 2015
The Champions carry on with their winning ways! Make a feast of a fairly good total! There’s one victory. Now for the next! #KKR #Go4More
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) April 8, 2015
A lovely cover drive to finish off the match. Congrats @KKRiders on winning the 1st game of #IPL8 Tough luck @mipaltan
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) April 8, 2015
Knight Riders take the first game. Congrats @KKRiders! Fantastic performance from @surya_14kumar.. #whistlepodu
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) April 8, 2015
Dazzling hitting from Surya Kumar Yadav! He builds on Gambhir’s 50 to hand @KKRiders a 7 wkt win in the big 2015 #PepsiIPL Opener ! #KKRvMI
— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) April 8, 2015
On another note, that makes 10 IPL victories in a row. And we are hungry to #Go4More! #KKR
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) April 8, 2015
Congrats @mornemorkel65! You were on the top of your game and got a well deserved Man of the Match award! #KKR #Go4More
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) April 8, 2015
.@GautamGambhir at the presentation #KKR #Go4More pic.twitter.com/xxmeHOa99c
— Knights Army (@WorldOfKKR) April 8, 2015
Abram and SRK at Eden Gardens. #KKR @iamsrk pic.twitter.com/Mhez3LvI5g
— KKR Knight Riders (@kkrofficial) April 8, 2015
3,000 – Rohit Sharma has become the second player after Suresh Raina to score 3,000 #IPL runs. Landmark. @mipaltan
— OptaJim (@OptaJim) April 8, 2015
Morne Morkel’s spell won that match for #KKR and typically nerveless chasing finished the job. A superb start. #IPL #KKRvMI #MI
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) April 8, 2015
Congratulation @KKRiders. welplay @GautamGambhir @im_manishpandey , Corey @ImRo45 but superb batting by Young boy @surya_14kumar. #IPL2015
— Virat Kohli (@iam_Vkohli) April 8, 2015
“Was a good knock, but ending up on the losing side doesn’t please you”: Rohit Sharma. #PepsiIPL
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL8_2015) April 8, 2015
“It was a tough chase, and the way we chased showed we were deserving winners” : Gambhir .. #PepsiIPL
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL8_2015) April 8, 2015
“Happy we have started the tournament on a high” – Gambhir . #IPL #KKRvMI
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL8_2015) April 8, 2015
#IPL2015: @GautamGambhir , with 24 FIFTIES, now has highest number of half-centuries in the #IPL. #KKRvMI pic.twitter.com/8RmdNfiGcw
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL8_2015) April 8, 2015
The champions have made the first move #KKR #PepsiIPL
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 8, 2015
If Suryakumar continues to bat the way he did today, #KKR will have the firepower to finish the innings…something they always lacked #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 8, 2015
Surya kumar Yadav quite sensational tonight. #KKR
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) April 8, 2015
Solid start by the boys. Very happy with the win tonight. Long way to go in the comp, so lots of hard work coming up … @KKRiders
— Adrian Le Roux (@adrian_leroux) April 8, 2015
Great win first up!!! Well played to the entire team and specially to @GautamGambhir @mornemorkel65 @surya_14kumar @im_manishpandey #KKR
— AR Srikkanth (@arsrikkanth) April 8, 2015
