that's it! No need for this to go down to the wire. Holder overpitches just outside off. Miller just launches that, almost casually, over wide long off. Clean as a whistle.
Tridents vs Kings XI, 5th Match, Group B at Mohali, Sep 20 2014 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Kings XI won by 4 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
So that wraps up our coverage of another super chase from Kings XI. The battle between the Kings XI batting line up and the Northern Knights' bowling might be one to watch later in the tournament. We have two more CLT20 clashes coming up tomorrow. Join us then. Goodnight.
Sameera Perera is feeling the love for his namesake, and countrymen in general: "Overall, the three Sri Lankans were the best in both teams"
Miller is man of the match: "Only towards the end did it hit one out of the ground. Akshar made it easy and took a lot of pressure off my shoulders. I was lucky up front, getting a few chances, but once I'm in I back myself to hit the boundaries. It's a see-ball-hit-ball type mentality. We've got some great spinners and some quicks. Perera is showing some strength for the team. He can clear the boundary and takes wickets as well."
Bailey: "Long may our chasing record continue. We get off to great starts. Once again we did that and we're thereabouts with the run rate. For a guy like Akshar to come in and hit his first 9 balls for 26 runs is extraordinary. It's a beautiful batting wicket. I was proud of the way we bowled today."
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Sehwag: "No one expected Patel to bat the way he did. The six he hit off Rampaul was amazing. It's a good track to bat on. A little bit slow. A couple of balls spun when Mendis bowled, but overall it was a good T20 wicket."
Emrit: "I thought with two overs to go, we should have had it with 26 runs to defend. Ravi is our most experienced bowler. Another day he will get it right, but it didn't happen today. We had spoken among the kinds of lengths we needed to bowl."
Mohan: "Some one wrote, if Max fails Miller, if then Bailey, if then Perera, Adding Patel to that list"
Some terrific work from Tridents' spinners to pull this game back, but oh boy, what batting from the Kings XI. It's got to be said that the Rampaul over that swung it in the Kings XI direction was a poor one. Still, Patel was good enough to cash in. Emrit, understandably, doesn't look happy.
Miller makes room, but Holder goes the other way and bowls a full toss way outside off. It's just inside the tram lines and Miller can't connect
Saleem: "Slowly and silently Rampaul scores a 50 from non-strikers end."
short of a length on the stumps, Patel makes room and chops it to the offside sweeper
that's a thigh-high no ball. Miller tries to slam it straight, but gets a top edge that drops at around point
Holder to bowl the last.
the no-look hook. Patel has stolen this one right back for Kings XI. Is there nothing this team can't do with the bat? Patel tried to make room, but Rampaul follows him with a bouncer. Patel hooks anyway, taking his eyes off long before he connects, but what a connection!. That's way over the deep square leg boundary.
luck for Patel. But it's not great death bowling for sure. That's length outside off stump once more. Patel tried to hit through cover, gets a thick edge, and it runs to the third man fence.
length ball outside off. Miller will probably feel his should have murdered it, but he just drags it to long on instead
bouncer at the chest. Patel pulls this square, but Holder runs around and cuts it off. They think about two, but decide against.
all the fielders are back on leg side, so Patel makes room and lifts this one over cover for four. Pressure right back on the Tridents. Rampaul needs to hit that blockhole.
shot! Patel gets into it now. Length ball outside off, and Patel lays into that one slamming that one wide of long on for four
Nayeem: "Its 'M' Day today, After Marsh it would be Miller now." Rampaul to bowl the penultimate over.
short of a length on the stumps, but Miller has latched onto that superfast. He's bash-pulling that to cow corner. It's hit so hard, it barely gets over head high, but almost carries all the way over the rope. Kings XI are in it as long as Miller is there.
this is short of a length on the pads, Patel flicks it off his thigh to fine leg
Miller backs away but Holder follows it with a length ball. Miller can only clobber it to long on for a single.
short of a length on middle stump. Patel squeezes this away to backward point. There should not have been a run there, but he fumbles it and allow them to cross, and to get Miller on strike. Poor work from Munaweera.
yorker on the legs, Miller tries to whip it to leg but misses. They take the leg bye off the deflection
short of a length on off stump, fended away towards point for a single
34 needed off the last three overs. Jason Holder is back.
Miller is trying his best to revive Kings XI. You can't count them out yet. He's down the track to this floated up ball and slamming it high over the bowlers head and into the stands. Didn't hit it perfectly, but he has more than enough power to clear that boundary.
tossed up a little, straightening on leg stump. Miller flicks it to leg and finds a decent legside gap. Takes two
flatter and faster, straightening on off stump. Miller goes back and chops it to sweeper cover
gone first ball. The spinners are wrapping this middle order up in their web. This was fired in short at Perera's body. The batsman goes back and tries to thwack it over the cow corner boundary. He can't connect as well as he likes and it goes high into the night. Carter settles under the ball and takes it gleefully.
shuffles down to this fired in fullish delivery which is straightening on off stump. This is squeezed away towards short fine leg
this is pitched outside off, turning away slowly. Chopped away in front of square on the off side and they take two
DanielAlexander: "Punjab should have promoted Thisara to tackle Mendis "