So far in this IPL 5, no home team had won but of course, this hoodoo wasn't going to last long and it did in this match 4 with Rajasthan Royals starting their challenge successfully in the tournament in front of fans at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, beating Kings XI Punjab by comfortable margin of 31 runs. Ajinkya Rahane, with classical 98 runs, and Kevon Cooper with his allround performance (11* off 3 balls, 4 wickets, two catches and a run out) turned out to be the main architect of the victory..
Invited in to bat first, Rajasthan openers Rahane and Rahul Dravid soon realised that there were no demons in the Motera pitch and that ball was coming nicely onto their bats. Technically correct opening pair added 77 off just 9.3 overs untill Harmeet Singh broke the stand but the launch-pad was already set. Ashok Menaria failed but Brad Hodge, Owaus Shah and then Cooper accelerated the innings to fetch over hundred run in last 10 overs, pushing the total past their opponents reach.
Punjab were given a relatively good start with captain Adam Gilchrist dominating the 36 runs stand off just first 4 overs but visiting team kept on losing wickets at regular intervals, ending up 9 down untill the last ball was bowled, falling well sort of their target.
Ajinkya Rahane was named man of the match.
| Rajasthan Royals innings (invited in to bat) |
| Batsman |
|
R |
B |
4s |
6s |
| Rahul Dravid |
c Faulkner b Singh |
28 |
24 |
3 |
0 |
| Ajinkya Rahane |
b Faulkner |
98 |
66 |
16 |
1 |
| Ashok Menaria |
c Chawla |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Brad Hodge |
b Faulkner |
21 |
16 |
1 |
1 |
| Owais Shah |
not out |
14 |
8 |
2 |
0 |
| Kevon Cooper |
not out |
11 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
| Johan Botha |
|
|
|
|
|
| Ashok Chavan |
|
|
|
|
|
| Shreevats Goswami |
|
|
|
|
|
| Amit Singh |
|
|
|
|
|
| Sidharth Trivedi |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Extra : |
19 (lbyes=8, wides=11) |
| Total : |
191 runs in
20 overs for
4 wicket. RR = (
9.55 ).
|
| Fall of wickets : 1-77 (Dravid, 9.3ov), 2-87 (Menaria, 10.5ov), 3-162 (Hodge, 17.2ov), 4-180 (Rahane, 19.3ov) |
| Bowler |
Overs |
Maiden |
Runs |
W |
Extra |
| Praveen Kumar |
4 |
0 |
42 |
0 |
2 wides |
| James Faulkner |
4 |
0 |
41 |
2 |
1 wide |
| Piyush Chawla |
4 |
0 |
33 |
1 |
|
| Bipul Sharma |
4 |
0 |
28 |
0 |
2 wides |
| Harmeet Singh |
3 |
0 |
23 |
1 |
2 wides |
| Paul Valthaty |
1 |
0 |
16 |
0 |
|
| Kings XI Punjab innings (192 from 20 overs) |
| Batsman |
|
R |
B |
4s |
6s |
| Adam Gilchrist |
c Cooper b Singh |
27 |
18 |
3 |
1 |
| Paul Valthaty |
c Singh b Cooper |
13 |
15 |
2 |
0 |
| Shaun Marsh |
c Dravid b Cooper |
7 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
| Abhishek Nayar |
c Goswami b Cooper |
10 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
| David Hussey |
c Cooper b Trivedi |
13 |
10 |
1 |
0 |
| Mandeep Singh |
b Chavan |
34 |
25 |
5 |
0 |
| Bipul Sharma |
c Rahane b Chavan |
18 |
13 |
2 |
0 |
| Piyush Chawla |
b Cooper |
10 |
8 |
0 |
1 |
| James Faulkner |
not out |
11 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
| Praveen Kumar |
run out (Cooper + Goswami) |
10 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
| Harmeet Singh |
not out |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
| Extra : |
6 (lbyes=4, wide=1, noball=1) |
| Total : |
160 runs in
20 overs for
9 wicket. RR = (
8.00 ).
|
| Fall of wickets : 1-36 (Gilchrist, 4.1 ov), 2-44 (Valthaty, 5.5 ov), 3-55 (Marsh, 7.2 ov), 4-61 (Nayar, 7.6 ov), 5-86 (Hussey, 11.2 ov), 6-123 (Bipul, 15.4 ov), 7-127 (Mandeep, 15.6 ov), 8-143 (Chawla, 18.2 ov), 9-155 (Kumar, 19.3 ov) |
| Bowler |
Overs |
Maiden |
Runs |
W |
Extra |
| Sidharth Trivedi |
4 |
0 |
32 |
1 |
1 no ball |
| Johan Botha |
4 |
0 |
36 |
0 |
|
| Amit Singh |
4 |
0 |
26 |
1 |
1 wide |
| Kevon Cooper |
4 |
0 |
26 |
4 |
|
| Brad Hodge |
1 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
|
| Ashok Chavan |
3 |
0 |
28 |
2 |
|
