IPL 5 – Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians – First Innings Report
Kings XI Punjab posted a massive total of 168 runs for the loss of only three wickets in the 33rd match of the fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians at Mohali.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918, won the toss and elected to bat first on a flat batting track. His decision has turned out to be the right one as the batsmen of Punjab have put their team in a winning position.
The home team was off to a good start through their openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SE-Marsh-c2470, who played an extra-ordinary innings against the same opposition on Sunday, looked off-colour
today and struggled to rotate the strike.
At one stage of the innings, Punjab had lost three wickets for only 79 runs in 12.5 overs, before Hussey and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Lawson-Miller-c53037 combined to take their team out of troubled waters. As a result of that fantastic partnership, Kings XI was able to give a target of
169 runs to Mumbai.
Hussey remained the top-scorer for the home team as he made 68 crucial runs off only 40 balls, in which he struck four boundaries and as many sixes. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Miller-c76318 played a little cameo as he scored 34 runs off only 17 deliveries. The two batsmen scored 89 runs
for the fourth wicket-partnership, which remained unbroken.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JEC-Franklin-c1684 picked up a wicket each to help their team’s cause but failed to tie down the home team in the closing overs of the innings.
The pitch looks brilliant for stroke-play and Mumbai has a very strong batting line-up, which should make this match a nail-biting one. The visitors will be depending on their top-order batsmen to give them a good start, so that the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KA-Pollard-c1754,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309 can finish the match.
On the other hand, momentum is with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 and they will come out positive after posting a good score on the board.
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