appeal for leg-before, Deccan haven't had anything going their way, full toss that Nayar swipes across the line and misses, they scramble for the leg-bye, that was very close, Dan cannot believe it, but Punjab are home
Chargers vs Kings XI, 15th match at Hyderabad, IPL, Apr 16 2011 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Kings XI won by 8 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
That is all from us for this game fellas. Do join us for tomorrow's games. Till then this is Abhishek Purohit signing off. Cheers!
Apparently, Paul becomes the first player to take a four-wicket haul and make a half-century in the IPL.
Paul Valthaty is the Man of the Match. Paul: "Probably I am a calm person. It was important that I forgot my previous innings, new game, new day. Happy that I did it. Honestly my family and friends helped me out. Adam spoke to me as well before we came to the ground. So far so good. Previous innings I remained not out. I would not dwell too much in to this. So far so good. It is a long tournament. I will try to take each game as it comes. To be on par with the god of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, is great."
Gilchrist comes up to loud cheers: "I was trying to hang in with Paul. Nice to get that partnership. The way Paul is going the total was n't enough. He is a very calm customer. He has a had a very busy couple of days with messages and all, but he has dealt with it very well. We complemented each other very well through phases. I was giving him the strike early on, and later he did the same. It was a tough chase. If you play as well as Paul did, you end up winning easier. They have a very experienced bowling line-up, very pleasing for our batsmen to come through."
Sangakkara: "I thought it was a competitive total, maybe 15-20 runs more. Gilly and Paul batted really well. they hit every loose ball to the boundary or over it. we weren't just good enough today."
While we wait for the presentation, Sid Monga has his bulletin ready for you to read.
136-run opening stand between Gilchrist and Valthaty, and that's where the match ended as a contest. Paul blazed away first, then Gilchrist teed away and got to his half-century first. Comfortable win for Punjab. And yeah, Paul also took four wickets earlier with his really slow slower ones.
Smid: "So Paul can bat,he can bowl. What next? Wicketkeeping? Watch out Gilly!!" Haah!
Harbinder: "with full respect to Ajit....There arn't many in the world let alone indian domestic circuit who can play the genuine pace of steyn."
sharma: "@Ajit: if all good players could players could play the 'genuine pace' of Steyn then he wouldn't be the best bowler in the world. Valthaty's not Bradman, but give the guy some credit.." Ajit has a point, he wasn't picking the googlies very well. But Steyn is a different case, of course, not many can get him away.
Ankit: "@ajit:hey...u should admire the courage with which Valthaty played those shots...it's still early dayz for him at the BIG stage!!!"
swivels and goes for another pull, the top edge flies over the keeper in to the boundary
Nayar goes for the pull off the front foot, bends the back leg, and hammers it past deep square leg
ajit: "with full respect to runs valathay is scoring.. i don't thnk he is that good... he can't pick wrong one of mishra ... can't play genuine pace of steyn."
angled in on the pads, worked away off the back foot behind square leg
this time he hops and keeps the short one down in front of point and Nayar lumbers across for the single
Dinesh hops in the air to keep down a sharply rising short one from Ishant, tries to go for the single but the ball was close to the stumps
Nayar swings on one leg for a ferocious pull off a short one on leg, but hits it straight to deep square leg
Nayar walks across the stumps and shovels a length ball past midwicket for a couple
dropped short and wide, Dinesh cuts it hard off the back foot, but point drops the sharp diving chance to his left, JP Duminy it was who went leaping but could not hold on
hullo, Dinesh gives Ishant a blind charge and is beaten completely outside off stump
Dinesh comes out now
he is gone finally, looked to belt another one over long on, but could not time it well, Iishant took a well-judged catch running to his left from long on
connects alright this time, down the track, and slams this flat delivery wide of long off for another boundary
looks to repeat the shot, doesn't pick the googly and is beaten
Paul doing it again for Punjab, goes down on the knee and slog-sweeps from outside off stump and high over deep midwicket
Nayar comes out of his crouching stance down the track, but only manages to push it away off the pads in front of extra cover
driven hard off the front foot, extra cover cannot stop it cleanly
mukesh: "hats off gilly the way u have entertained millions of people since long time with such a skill and exceptional gentlemanly behaviour."
salman: "I always believed amit mishra is the best indian spinner. better than over rated bhaji and chawla."
ab: "seems like valthaty is out to reclaim the orange cap....amazing turnaround by the kings...they were one of my favs for the the bottom 3 position initially..."
gets a short and wide one and slaps it wide of sweeper cover for a couple
defends this one on a length outside off
walks across and chops a length ball close to the stumps, does not know where the ball has gone as he looks around
beats him outside off stump with a pacy ball that angles across him even as he pushes forward
slapped away over the bowler to long off
bangs this one short, and Paul gets out of the way
Nayar comes in at No 3
Over 18 • KXIP 166/2
Kings XI won by 8 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)