Tag IPL-2012

Match : Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers, match 61 of IPL 2012.
Venue/Date : PCA stadium in Mohali, 13th May 2012.
IPL Debut : none.
Toss : Deccan, elected to bat.
Result : Punjab won by 4 wickets.
Man of the match : David Hussey.
Umpires : Kumar Dharamasena (Sri Lanka) + Bruce Oxenford (Australia) with S Shamsuddin (3rd umpire, from India).

Head to head

10th Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers IPL match it was and now, Punjab have won 7 games while Deccan are behind with 3 victories.

Match summary

It was a match that made us think -- is this cricket or a movie where someone's writing the script, mixing smartness with sillyness? Punjab, still alive with a chance to qualify for play-offs if they win all their remaining matches, did everything they could to scrap their chances today, dropping catches like they'd butter fingers and then their top order failed miserably but captain David Hussey and Gurkeerat Mann Singh, playing only his second IPL match, did the unthinkable..

Electing to bat first, Deccan lost two wickets cheaply but Shikhar Dhawan, once again, batted with composure, adding 96 good runs with another in-form batsman Cameron White. The left-right hand combination were given repeated chances by home team on the field and within no time, a strong total was build on the scoreboard which should have been enough to defend but it wasn't to be.

Punjab batsmen played their strokes and perished, losing 3 wickets for just 56 runs on board. Azhar Mahmood was promoted up the order and looked good but Amit Mishra foxed him as he left the crease but David Hussey was going great runs from other end, smashing 5 sixes in his innings, adding quick 41 runs with Sidharth Chitnis to keep the tempo going. Piysuh Chawla did his bit by scoring two boundaries before departing off the third and even though Hussey continued, he needed support from other end which came in form of Gurkeerat Singh who not just collected the important boundaries but also hit the winning fsrun off the very last ball.

Deccan Chargers innings (elected to bat)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Shikhar Dhawan	c Awana b Kumar	71	50	4	3
Parthiv Patel	c Gurkeerat b Mahmood	18	16	2	0
Kumar Sangakkara	c Mahmood b Awana	1	4	0	0
Cameron White	not out	67	41	8	1
Daniel Christian	c Harris b Mahmood	24	10	1	2
Ashish Reddy	not out	0	0	0	0
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
Amit Mishra
Dale Steyn
MS Gony
Taduri Sudhindra
Extra :	9 (lbyes=6, wides=2, noball=1)
Total :	190 runs in 20 overs for 4 wicket. RR = ( 9.50 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-47 (Patel, 5.6 ov), 2-49 (Sangakkara, 6.6 ov), 3-145 (Dhawan, 16.6 ov), 4-189 (Christian, 19.5 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Praveen Kumar	4	0	31	1
David Hussey	1	0	14	0	1 wide
Ryan Harris	4	0	32	0
Parviner Awana	4	0	41	1	1 wide
Azhar Mahmood	4	0	39	2	1 no ball
Piyush Chawla	3	0	27	0

Kings XI Punjab innings (target = 191 from 20 overs)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Nitin Saini	c Sangakkara b Christian	3	10	0	0
Mandeep Singh	c Christian b Gony	28	20	5	0
Shaun Marsh	c Sangakkara b Christian	11	7	2	0
Azhar Mahmood	st Patel b Mishra	31	20	2	1
David Hussey	not out	65	35	4	5
Sidharth Chitnis	c Patel b Steyn	11	13	1	0
Piyush Chawla	c White b Steyn	8	3	2	0
Gurkeerat Singh	not out	29	12	4	1
Praveen Kumar
Parvinder Awana
Ryan Harris
Extra :	8 (lbyes=6, wides=2)
Total :	194 runs in 20 overs for 6 wicket. RR = ( 9.70 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-7 (Saini, 2.2 ov), 2-26 (Marsh, 4.4 ov), 3-56 (Mandeep, 7.2 ov), 4-100 (Mahmood, 12.2 ov), 5-141 (Chitnis, 16.1 ov), 6-149 (Chawla, 16.4 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Dale Steyn	4	0	26	2
Taduri Sudhindra	4	0	47	0	1 wide
Daniel Christian	4	0	31	2
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala	1	0	13	0
MS Gony	4	0	40	1	1 wide
Amit Mishra	3	0	31	1