Kings XI Punjab without any fear made good total 174/3 thanks to Sangakkra’s 37 balls 52 runs and inform Jayawardhane’s unbeaten 93 runs off 62 balls with 13 fours and 2 sixes. In reply Deccan Chargers lost Gilchrist early but Sumana 43 and Rohit Sharma who made unbeaten 68 runs off 38 balls with 6 fours and 3 sixes to complete a good win and stay alive in the tournament.
Match Summary:
Kings XI Punjab – 174/3 in 20 overs (Jayawardhane 93*, Sangakkara 52)
Deccan Chargers – 178/5 in 19.1 overs (Rohit 68*, Suman 43)
Toss – Deccan Chargers, who chose to bowl first.
Man of the Match – Rohit Sharma (Deccan Chargers)
Result – Deccan Chargers won by 5 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
Match Information Umpires: Marais Erasmus (SA) and Amiesh Saheba (Ind) Third Umpire: Billy Bowden (NZ) Match Referee: Devdas Govindjee (Ind) Toss: Deccan Chargers (Elected to field) Match Status: Deccan Chargers won by 5 wkts Man of the Match: Rohit Sharma Batting: Kings XI Punjab Innings
Batsmen Kings XI Punjab (174/3 in 20 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Mahela Jayawardene not out 93 62 13 2 150.00 Shaun Marsh c A Gilchrist b R Harris 0 1 0 0 0.00 Kumar Sangakkara (c) (wk) c P Ojha b R Sharma 52 37 9 1 140.54 Yuvraj Singh c A Symonds b R Singh 20 20 1 1 100.00 Irfan Pathan not out 1 1 0 0 100.00 Piyush Chawla Karan Goel Vikramjeet Malik Reetinder Sodhi Shalabh Srivastava Juan Theron Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 1, lb – 3 8 Total:(174 for 3 in 20 overs) 174 Run Rate: 8.70 Fall Of Wickets 1/1 (Shaun Marsh, 0.5 ov.), 2/87 (Kumar Sangakkara, 11.2 ov.), 3/173 (Yuvraj Singh, 19.5 ov.) Bowling: Deccan Chargers
Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Ryan Harris 4 0 27 1 0 2 6.8 RP Singh 4 0 51 1 0 1 12.8 Mitchell Marsh 4 0 32 0 0 0 8.0 Andrew Symonds 2 0 16 0 0 0 8.0 Rohit Sharma 1 0 8 0 0 0 8.0 Pragyan Ojha 2 0 19 0 1 0 9.5 Rahul Sharma 3 0 18 1 0 1 6.0 Batting: Deccan Chargers Innings
Batsmen Deccan Chargers (178/5 in 19.1 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Adam Gilchrist (c) (wk) c J Theron b I Pathan 9 5 2 0 180.00 Monish Mishra lbw b V Malik 20 21 4 0 95.24 Tirumalsetti Suman c K Sangakkara b P Chawla 43 31 3 3 138.71 Rohit Sharma not out 68 38 6 3 178.95 Andrew Symonds b J Theron 4 6 0 0 66.67 Mitchell Marsh c M Jayawardene b Y Singh 15 11 1 1 136.36 Bodapati Sumanth not out 6 3 1 0 200.00 RP Singh Pragyan Ojha Ryan Harris Rahul Sharma Extras: b – 0, w – 7, nb – 0, lb – 6 13 Total:(178 for 5 in 19.1 overs) 178 Run Rate: 9.29 Fall Of Wickets 1/13 (Adam Gilchrist, 1.3 ov.), 2/54 (Monish Mishra, 6.3 ov.), 3/120 (Tirumalsetti Suman, 13.1 ov.), 4/126 (Andrew Symonds, 14.3 ov.), 5/154 (Mitchell Marsh, 17.4 ov.) Bowling: Kings XI Punjab
Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Vikramjeet Malik 2.1 0 23 1 0 1 10.6 Irfan Pathan 3 0 35 1 0 1 11.7 Shalabh Srivastava 4 0 36 0 0 2 9.0 Juan Theron 4 0 32 1 0 3 8.0 Piyush Chawla 4 0 24 1 0 0 6.0 Yuvraj Singh 2 0 22 1 0 0 11.0