Kings XI Punjab defeat the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians in the Indian Premier League – Match Report
KXI 163/8 20 overs MI 87 12.5 overs
Kings XI Punjab ended their barren run in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League as they trounced the much fancied Mumbai Indians team by a resounding margin of 76 runs to send their home crowd in raptures of joy at the Mohali stadium.
Batting first the hosts made good use of a rather up and down wicket to post a highly formidable total of 163/8 in the allotted 20 overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918 got their team off to a reasonable start. However, Valthaty who was the star of the
show at the start of the season perished attempting to hit Munaf Patel out of the ground.
Gilchrist scored a run a ball 28, as he was sent packing by Lasith Malinga, the Sri Lankan speedster. Shaun Marsh and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dinesh-c54134 Karthik than joined hands for what was a match winning partnership, the two rotated the strike cleverly amidst some big boundaries
to make life tough for the opposition.
From there on in the Indians fought back, the last few batsmen found the going tough and perished in an attempt of upping the tempo. Patel returned outstanding figures of 5/21 from his four overs while Malinga snared two wickets in his hostile spell of fast
bowling.
In reply, the Indians lost their captain and most influential player Sachin Tendulkar with the score at 19 in only the third over of the innings, the legendary batsman scored only six runs before his Indian national team-mate http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Praveen-Kumar-c82600 accounted for
him.
Kumar also accounted for Tendulkar’s opening partner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aiden-Blizzard-c958 who scored 15 runs, it later turned out that he was to be second best scorer for the visitors who capitulated in a spectacular fashion from here on in.
The best score of the innings came from West Indian Kieron Pollard who scored 17 runs off 11 balls, his innings was studded with one four and one six however there was hardly anything else that could have brought joy to the Mumbai fans.
At the end, the margin of a 73 runs defeat typifies the nature of the contest which was all http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833’s especially in the latter half of the match. Bhargav Bhatt who captured four wickets for the winners was declared Man of the Match.
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