{"id":4619,"date":"2012-05-30T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2012-05-30T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:40:42","slug":"kolkata-win-maiden-ipl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4619","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata win maiden IPL title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">K<\/span>olkata Knight Riders<\/strong> beat defending champions Chennai Super Kings in a closely-contested final, in Chennai on Sunday, to crown themselves IPL champions for the first time.<\/p>\n<h2>Bisla, Kallis help Kolkata win maiden IPL title<\/h2>\n<p>Manvinder Singh Bisla and Jacques Kallis\u00a0 hit half-centuries to help Kolkata Knight Riders outclass defending champions Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in a nerve-wracking final to win their maiden IPL title, in Chennai, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a stiff target of 191, Bisla shone with the bat, smashing the Chennai bowlers to all corners of the M A Chidambaram stadium to notch 89 off only 48 balls, with the help of eight fours and five sixes.<\/p>\n<p>He was ably supported by Jacques Kallis, who brought all his experience into play to score a quick 69 from 49 balls, before an injury hampered him late in the innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Knight Riders beat defending champions Chennai Super Kings in a closely-contested final, in Chennai on Sunday, to crown themselves IPL champions for the first time. Bisla, Kallis help Kolkata &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4619\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2369,4312,1429,1430,207,4313,1147,4314,4315,3660,4316,4317,3959,4318,4319,4320,4321,4322,920],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-chris-gayle","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-current-affairs","tag-indian-cricket-news","tag-ipl","tag-ipl-champions","tag-ipl-edition-2012","tag-ipl-news","tag-ipl-winners","tag-jacques-kallis","tag-kolkata-knight-riders","tag-live-cricket-score","tag-live-cricket-scores","tag-manvinder-singh-bisla","tag-morne-morkel","tag-sourav-ganguly","tag-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}