Kings XI Punjab pull off stunning victory in Mohali. (PTI)Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Capitals highlights: In a nail-biting finish, Kings XI Punjab today registered an unbelievable victory against Delhi Capitals. Needing 167 runs to win, the Delhi team was going along nicely, before the last 7 wickets fell for just 8 runs. In the end, the visitors were bowled out for 152 runs, 14 runs short of the target.
For Kings XI Punjab, Sam Curran was the chief destructor and picked up a hat-trick in the last over to help his side win the match. He ended the match with figures of 4 for 11. Ravichandra Ashwin and Mohammed Shami took 2 wickets each.
Batting first after being put into bat, Kings XI Punjab managed to score 167 runs. KXIP was clearly missing the services of Chris Gayle, as most of the batsman apart from David Miller (43 runs)and Sarfraz Khan (39 runs) failed to make a mark.
Openers KL Rahul (15 runs) and Sam Curran (20 runs) failed to give a good start. For Delhi Capitals, Chris Morris was the pick of the bowlers taking 3 wickets. Kagiso Rabada and Sandeep Laichhane took two wickets each.
Squads
Kings XI Punjab: Ravichandran Ashwin, Chris Gayle, Lokesh Rahul, Mayank Agrawal, Mohammed Shami, Karun Nair, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, David Miller, Sam Curran, Varun Chakaravarthy, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Hardus Viljoen, Darshan Nalkande, Sarfaraz Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet Brar, Murugan Ashwin, Andrew Tye, Ankit Rajpoot, Mandeep Singh, Simran Singh.
Delhi Capitals: Shreyas Iyer, Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant, Colin Munro, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Colin Ingram, Manjot Kalra, Chris Morris, Sherfane Rutherford, Keemo Paul, Axar Patel, Jalaj Saxena, Rahul Tewatia, Ankush Bains, Sandeep Lamichhane, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Trent Boult, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Ishant Sharma, Nathu Singh and Bandaru Ayyappa.
Punjab's bowling is spearheaded by Mohammed Shami. (Photo: Twitter/Kings XI Punjab)
Highlights
Kings XI Punjab have snatched an unbelievable victory in Mohali today. Sam Curran snatched victory for his side taking an hatrick in last over. In the end KXIP won the match by 14 runs. the Last 7 wickets of Delhi Capitals fall for just 8 runs.
Hanuma Virai is out. He goes for 2. The match is seeing cliphanger finish as KXIP has comeback into yhis match out of nowhere. Into the final over now. Delhi Capitals need 15 runs with 2 wickets in hand.
Is a turn around on card? While Ingram has gone for 39 runs, Harshal Patel is out for 0. Delhi Capitals 148/7 now. They need 19 runs to win from 11 balls with 3 wickets in hand.
Match is interestingly poised now with Delhi Capitals losing 2 quick wickets. The latest to go is Chris Morris, who is out for 0. He is run out. Visitors now need 21 runs from 15 balls with 5 wickets in hand. Can KXIP pull through this one?
Mohammed Shami provides breakthrough for hosts as Rishabh Pant goes for 39 runs. With this the 62 runs partnership between him and Ingram has come to an end. Ingram is batting on 37 runs.
Delhi Capitals now need 32 runs to win off 28 deliveries with 7 wickets in hand. While Rishabh Pant is batting on 32 runs, Collin Ingram is on 35. Together they have put on 54 runs partnership for 4th wicket. While the current run rate is 8.56, the required is 7.5
After 13 overs, DC: 105/3
Colin Ingram: 21 runs
Rishabh Pant: 17 runs
Current run rate 8.15. Required run rate: 8.71
Big wicket for KXIP has Shikhar Dhawan is out for 30 runs. He is declared LBW off the bowling of R Aswin. The next batsman in is Colin Ingram. At the moment, DC is 91/3 in 11.2 overs. They need 76 runs to win from 52 balls with 7 wickets in hand.
Delhi Capitals lose a major wicket of Shreyas Iyer. The Delhi skipper is out for 28 runs. He is bowled by Viljoen. After 8 overs, Delhi Capitals are 67/2. They now need 100 runs to win in 12 overs with 8 wickets in hand. Punjab bowlers need to tighetn up their socks now and get a couple of quick wickets.
After 6 overs, DC: 49/1
Shreyas Iyer: 22 runs
Shikhar Dhawan: 22 runs
Current run rate 7.89. Required run rate: 8.56
After 4.2 overs, DC: 39/1
Shreyas Iyer: 17 runs
Shikhar Dhawan: 17 runs
Current run rate 8.66. Required run rate: 8.25
Prithvi Shaw is out in the very first ball in Delhi Capitals innings. He is caught by KL Rahul off the bowling of R Ashwin. The new man in is Shreyas Iyer. The visitors need a good partnership from here on after the fall of the first wicket quickly. On the other hand Punjab boys need 1 or 2 wickets more to put more pressure on visitors.
Batting first after put into bat , Kings XI Punjab have set the target of 167 runs to win. the team was clearly missing the services of Chris Gayle who is out of action today. The top scorer for the side was David Miller who scored 43 runs. Morris was the top wicket-taker for visitors as he took three wickets. Among other wicket-takers were Rabada and Lamichhane.
Hosts have lost their 7th wicket. Spikker R Ahwin goes for 3 runs. He is bowled by Morris. the team is clearly missing services of Chris Gayle today, who is not playing in this match. The team has lost wickets of miller and Viljoen in quick succession. Miller was looking good, before he was out for 43 runs.
hUGE s breakthrough for Delhi Capitals as Sarfraz Khan in caught by Reshab Pant off the bowling of Reshab Pant. The new batsman is Mandeep Singh. After 15 overs KXIP is 129/4
After 13 overs, KXIP: 117/3
Sarfraz Khan: 38 runs
David Miller: 32 runs
Current run rate: 10.40
Miller hits another huge six. he hist the ball off the bowling of Lamichhane. He hists the ball over thw wide long on. He is doing exacting what the hosts need at the moment. he is hitting his shots quite cleanly. After 12.1 overs KXIP is 108/3. From Delhi's point of view, the visitors need a wicket ot two very quickly.
David Miller is not a batsman to keep quite for too long. the batsman hist ahige six off the bowling of Patel. He hists the ball through extra cover. After 10 overs KXIP is 86/3. While half of their innings is over, the Punjab players will look to keep up the momentum to put up a good total on board.
After 9 overs, KXIP: 75/2
Sarfraz Khan: 27 runs
David Miller: 2
Current run rate: 8.33
Punjab has lost its third wicket with Mayank Agarwal goes for 6 runs. The new batsman at the crease in David Miller. Hosts will have high hopes on him for good total on board. After 8.2 overs KXIP is 66/3.
Both Khan and Agarwal have together put on 22 runs partnership, while Agarwal is batting on 6, Khan is batting on 17 runs. at the moment KXIP is 58/2 in 7 overs. Will they put a strong partnership from here on. Punjab fans are certainly hoping so.
After 6 overs, KXIP: 54/2
Mayank Agarwal: 4 runs
Sarfraz Khan: 15 runs
Current run rate 9.0
Sam Curran is out. He goes for 20 runs. the batsman is declared LBW off the bowling of Lamichchanne. With both openers out, its upto the middle order to thelp the side put a competitive total on board. As of now, KXIP is 44/2 at the end of 5 overs. While Mayank Agarwal is on 3 runs, Sarfraraz Khan is batting on 6 runs.
Sam Curran in a deadly mood out here. He hits huge six off the bowling of Lamichhanne. The batsman hist the ball straight into the side screen. The shot brings cheer from the crowd. Bowler need to think here on how to get rid of the batsman.
After 3 overs KXIP is 27/1
Sam Curran: 12* off 6 balls
Mayank Agarwal: 0* off 1 ball
Current run rate: 9.0
KL Rahul is out. He goes for 15 runs. the batsman is declared LBW off the bowling of Morris. the bowler has finally taken his revenge after the previous delivery was hit for a six. the new man in is Avesh Khan.
KL Rahul hist first six off the match. The batsman takes advantage of a shorter delivery from Morris. the side is hoping him to continue with this monetum to help the side put a good total on board.
The match between KXIP and DC has already started. Openers Sam Curran and Lokesh Rahul have started batting for hosts. After the end of first over KXIP is 5/0. While KL Rahul is batting on 9 runs off 8 deliveries so far, Sam is yet to open his account. Rahul has all ready hit two boundaries.
Shreyas Iyer has score most number of runs for Delhi Capitals against Kaings XI Punjab. He has so far scored 159 runs. However, as they say, everyday is a new day. Iyer will also look to put his records behind and focus to garner as many runs as possible to maintain his supremacy against the Punjab side.
Both teams have announced their playing 11. Here they are.
Kings XI Punjab will miss services of Chris Gayle and Andrew Tye today. They have been replaced by Mujeeb and Sam Curran. Thats a schocker for cricket fans as many were perhaps waiting to see both overseas players in action, especially Gayle who has the tendency of changing course of the match anytime. He is perhaps the most dangerous batsman in the universe as far as the shortest format of the game is concerned.
Delhi Capitals have won the toss. they have decided to bowl first. The visitors will look to restrict Punjab at a lowe total, so that their batsmen don have to face tough time while chasing the score. The match is going to start any minute now. Both teams will look to carry on with their winning momentum.
The toss will hld shortly. The match is being played in Mohali today. High on confidence after wins in their previous matches both teams will look to carry on with the winning momentum by winning today's match. Fans have beginning to gather in the stadium to cheer for their teams
The average score of Kings XI Punjab against Delhi Capitals in IPL so far is 139 runs. While today's match already expected to be closely contested, fans will be hoping to see sixes and boundaries at regular intervals. Both sides have the capability of coming up with huge surprises.
The number of matches played between two teams in Mohali is 6. While the Punjab team has 5 of them, Delhi has won 1 till now. While Shreyal Iyer is the captain of Delhi Capitals, Ravichandran Ashwin is leading Kings XI Punjab this season.
As of now Chennai Super Kings in leading the points table. they have won all three matches, the side has played so far. While leading the table by 6 points CSK's net run rate at the moment is +0.507. Sunrisers Hyderabad is in second spot currently with 4 points. They have won two matches of the three they have played so far.
Both teams have faced each other 22 times till now. While Punjab has won 13 of them, Delhi boys have won 9. Todays match is being played in Mohali. This willl be the 13th match of the IPL this season. Both sides are coming into this games after a win each in their previous matches.
Focus will now be on how the South African paceman would fare against the likes of Chris Gayle, Lokesh Rahul, Mayank Agarwal and David Miller. Both sides are riding high on confidence having won their respective matches on Saturday. In fact, both the teams' opening batsmen were the architect of their victory. While Delhi's Prithvi Shaw (55-ball 99) almost took the team home against Kolkata Knight Riders, Rahul (57-ball 71) finished the job for Punjab against Mumbai Indians.
Even as Kagiso Rabada's yorker being the talk of the town, all eyes willl be on how the Delhi Capitals pacer counters the hard-hitting Kings XI Punjab batsmen as two teams face in an IPL match in Mohali on Monday. Rabada played a key role in Capitals defending lowest total (10) in a Super Over in IPL history after the scores were tied at 185 in the allotted 20 overs each. Focus will now be on how the South African paceman would fare against the likes of Chris Gayle, Lokesh Rahul, Mayank Agarwal and David Miller.