Ahmedabad, April 22
Kings XI Punjab came from behind to beat table-toppers Rajasthan Royals
via the Super Over and end their five-match unbeaten streak in the
Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Sardar Patel Stadium here on Tuesday.
With the scores tied at 191 at the end of regulation period, the match went into the Super Over where Kings XI scored 15/1.
In
reply, the Royals lost both their available wickets to end at 6/2 in
0.3 overs and lose their first match in six games in the 2015 edition of
the Twenty20 tournament.
Earlier in the evening, Kings XI opted
to field but things did not go according to plan as Ajinkya Rahane (74)
and skipper Shane Watson (45) put up a brilliant 95-run opening-wicket
partnership for the Royals.
The partnership set up the platform
for the home team to put up a big total on the board, which they did
eventually. Though Watson perished in the 12th over, five short of a
half-century, right-handed Rahane top-scored, hitting two sixes and six
boundaries in his 54-ball innings.
The Royals lost quite a few
wickets towards the end but a couple of cameos from Karun Nair (25),
Deepak Hooda (19), and all-rounder Stuart Binny (12 not out) took the
home team past the 190-run mark.
It was not the best of days for
the Kings XI bowlers with all of them going for more than six runs per
over. Though pacer Sandeep Sharma was economical with figures of
4-0-25-1, it was spinner Axar Patel who picked up 2/30 from his four
overs.
In reply, Kings XI did not start well as they lost captain Virender Sehwag (1) cheaply in only the second over.
Though
opener Murali Vijay (21) played his part for the team, the real
contributions in the chase came from big-hitters Shaun Marsh (65) of
Australia and David Miller (54) of South Africa.
By the time
Miller, who smashed five huge sixes and one boundary, got out, the
visitors were well within touching distance of the target.
In the
end, Kings XI needed 14 off the last over, being bowled by James
Faulkner. Axar Patel (12 not out) and Mitchell Johnson (13 not out) did
enough to push the match into the Super Over.
IPL: Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab scoreboard
The following is the
scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) clash between Rajasthan
Royals and Kings XI Punjab at the Sardar Patel Stadium here on Tuesday:
Rajasthan Royals
Ajinkya Rahane c Saha b Johnson 74
Shane Watson st Saha b Patel 45
Deepak Hooda b Shivam Sharma 19
Steven Smith c Maxwell b Patel 0
Karun Nair c Patel b Anureet Singh 25
James Faulkner c Maxwell b Sandeep Sharma 1
Stuart Binny not out 12
Sanju Samson not out 5
Extras (lb 3, w 6, nb 1) 10
Total (six wickets in 20 overs) 191
Fall
of wickets: 1-95 (Watson, 11.3 overs), 2-136 (Hooda, 14.6), 3-137
(Smith, 15.3), 4-162 (Rahane, 17.4), 5-166 (Faulkner, 18.1), 6-175
(Nair, 19.1)
Bowling
Sandeep Sharma 4-0-25-1
Anureet Singh 4-0-41-1
Mitchell Johnson 4-0-33-1
Axar Patel 4-0-30-2
Shivam Sharma 3-0-44-1
Glenn Maxwell 1-0-15-0
Kings XI Punjab
Murali Vijay run out (Tewatia) 21
Virender Sehwag run out (Smith) 1
Shaun Marsh c Rahane b Tambe 65
Glenn Maxwell c Smith b Tewatia 1
David Miller c Binny b Hooda 54
Wriddhiman Saha b Morris 19
Axar Patel not out 12
Mitchell Johnson not out 13
Extras (lb 4) 4
Total (six wickets in 20 overs) 191
Fall
of wickets: 1-3 (Sehwag, 1.6 overs), 2-42 (Vijay, 6.2), 3-59 (Maxwell,
8.4), 4-117 (Marsh, 14.3), 5-152 (Saha, 16.6), 6-166 (Miller, 17.5)
Bowling
Chris Morris 4-0-34-1
Stuart Binny 2-0-13-0
James Faulkner 4-0-41-0
Pravin Tambe 3-0-20-1
Rahul Tewatia 3-0-31-1
Deepak Hooda 3-0-35-1
Shane Watson 1-0-13-0
