Kings XI Punjab score emphatic win over Deccan Chargers in Indian Premier League
DC 165/8 20 overs KXI 166/2 17.4 overs
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The hosts, who had broken the curse of not having won a single game at home in IPL history with a win earlier in the week, were found wanting with the ball against the blazing bats of Valthaty, and, skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918.
Gilchrist, who led Deccan to their maiden title in IPL in 2009 was the perfect foil to the free flowing Valthaty. The two openers flayed as many as 136 runs in their opening stand that came off 14 overs.
Their efforts more or less sealed a win for their team after the opponents had set them a demanding target under the lights in front of a capacity crowd.
Valthaty had earlier snared 4 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 wickets to restrict them to some degree. At one stage a score of around 180 was on the cards following a blazing Kings XI start.
Valthaty’s gentle medium pace, which had a mix of cleverly disguised slower balls, had the batsmen reeling, as he ran through the middle and lower order.
Gilchrist scored 61 runs off 46 balls. He hit 5 fours and 3 enormous sixes in his innings, proving once again that he is arguably the most destructive batsman in the competition when in full flow.
The only bowler to have made an impression on Kings XI was Amit Mishra, who got both openers dismissed, however, his effort was a little too late.
Earlier, the Deccan total was built around contributions by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shikhar-Dhawan-c90019 and Kumar Sangakkara.
Dhavan top scored with 45 runs scored off 36 balls with the help of 5 fours and 1 six. Sangakkara made 35 off 28 balls, his innings was studded with 5 fours also.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ryan-McLaren-c87323 chipped in with 2 wickets for the winners, who succeeded in choking the runs at the end of Punjab innings.
Valthaty was named man of the match for his all-round show.
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