Half centuries from Jacques Kallis and Gautam Gambhir helped Kolkata Knight Riders to their second win of the IPL season as they thumped Rajasthan Royals by nine wickets on Friday.
Kallis scored an unbeaten 80 off 65 balls while Gambhir was not out on 75 from 44 balls to help Kolkata gather the points at the Sawai Mansingh stadium.
Rajasthan posted 4-159 in 20 overs. Kolkata, in reply, successfully chased down the target with nine balls to spare.
Chasing 160, Kolkata lost their opener Manvinder Bisla with eight runs on the board, but Gambhir and Kallis played sensibly to guide their team home with no further hiccups.
The duo also shared an unbeaten partnership of 152 runs for the second wicket.
Earlier, Rajasthan got off to a slow start with their openers Amit Paunikar and Rahul Dravid finding it difficult to score freely against Brett Lee and Lakshmipathy Balaji.
Paunikar was dismissed by left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan, who had the wicketkeeper batsman caught by Kallis at short third man.
Ashok Menaria, the next man in, forged a partnership of 52 runs for the second wicket with Dravid.
However, when things started to look good for Rajasthan, Yusuf Pathan came to Kolkata's rescue.
He struck twice in three balls claiming Dravid (35) and Menaria (27) and the home team was struggling at 79 for 3 in 11.5 overs.
Had it not been for Shane Watson and Ross Taylor's cameo knock of 22 and 25 respectively, Rajasthan would have been in big trouble.
For Kolkata, Shakib and Pathan claimed two wickets each.
Kolkata's next match is at Eden Garden against Rajasthan on Sunday.