Match 33 Kings XI Punjab Vs Mumbai Indians
at PCA Stadium, Mohali
Crucial match for both KXIP and Mumbai Indians as both the teams
struggle at the bottom of the table. A
win in this match would help in joining the teams with 8 points each.
Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to bat. Saini and Mandeep gave a good start. Mandeep got out for 22 when the total was
35. Saini departed soon. Shaun Marsh could contribute only 17
runs. But a great knock of 68 off 40
balls from David Hussey and his partner
David Miller's 34 off 17 balls enabled KXIP to post a decent total of
168/3.
Franklin and Sachin provided fine start for the Mumbai
Indians. But the wickets of Franklin,
Sachin and Dinesh Karthik fell in quick succession and the Mumbai Indians
struggled at 66/3. Pollard also fell for
just 3 runs. But a fine partnership
between Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu took the score closer to the victory
mark. Rohit Sharma made 50 off 30 balls
and got out. Harbhajan followed him
immediately scoring a duck. 32 runs were
needed from the last two overs and KXIP looked like winning the match
comfortably. But Robin Peterson had
different ideas. Penultimate over from
Piyush Chawla was targeted by Peterson and Rayudu as they scored 27 runs off
that over. Things became easy for them
as they needed just 5 runs off the last over.
Mumbai won the match by 4 wickets with 1 ball remaining.
We must compare this with earlier match between Pune Warriors
and RCB in which the RCB's batsmen AB De Villiers and Saurabh Tiwary played
Ashok Dinda's penultimate over cautiously and punished Aashish Nehra's last
over scoring 21 runs to win the match.
Here the penultimate over itself was punished. This clearly shows the unpredictable nature
of T20 games and the pathetic condition of the bowlers.
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