RESULT
14th match (N), Mohali, April 12, 2012, Indian Premier League
(17.4/20 ov, T:116) 116/3

Kings XI won by 7 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)

Player Of The Match
5/25
dimitri-mascarenhas
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That's it from me for tonight, I shall be back for tomorrow's game, when Kolkata Knight Riders take on the Rajasthan Royals at the Eden Gardens. Have a very good evening!

Presentation

Mascarenhas is the man of the match.

Mascarenhas: Bit on the surface for me to bowl on. Never had such a surface in India before! Absolutely love playing India, crowds are passionate and it is really nice to win in front of them. Hope to get a win at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata in our next game.

Adam Gilchrist: Good to get things started, early days in the tournaments. Bowlers did a good job in getting the movement off the air. Mascarenhas did a good job with the ball, got a couple of good deliveries. The pitch was doing a tad too much because of the storm yesterday and it could be risk to continue playing on this kind of pitch.

Sourav Ganguly: Toss was important but this was a good performance from the Punjab bowlers, we needed to be a lot smarter. Disappointed because we have a good bowling attack, need to be better with our batting. Kept Rahul Sharma away for some time because we wanted to try out our seamers under those conditions.

That is an easy win for Punjab in the end, on a difficult batting surface. 115 was never going to be an easy target to defend and despite a wicket off the first ball, the Pune Warriors failed to hold on to their catches and missed an easy run-out chance.

Marsh, in his own words after the match, rode is luck a bit and got an unbeaten 64 while Adam Gilchrist and Piyush Chawla both scored 21.

Dimitri Mascarenhas' five-wicket haul had earlier pushed Pune Warriors back and they failed to recover from the early jolts.

17.4
4
Samuels to Chawla, FOUR runs

slashed through the covers and that should go to the fence, and also be the end of the game! Punjab have got themselves on to the board!

17.3
2
Samuels to Chawla, 2 runs

dropped, yet again! Tried to slash Samuels and it got more height than distance, should have been caught at point but he failed to get his hands to that.

17.2
Samuels to Chawla, no run

spinning away from the bat and dabbed away to the short third-man.

17.1
1
Samuels to Marsh, 1 run

driven away to the mid-wicket for a single.

end of over 1710 runs
PBKS: 109/3CRR: 6.41 RRR: 2.33
Shaun Marsh63 (53b 7x4 1x6)
Piyush Chawla15 (21b 2x4)
Ashok Dinda 3-0-18-1
Rahul Sharma 3-0-17-1
16.6
5
Dinda to Marsh, 5 runs

overthrows and they get five. Defended on the off-side and the fielder swooped down on it and threw it wildly over the stumps at the non-striker's end, the fielders backing it failed to get a hand to it and it goes racing away for overthrows.

16.5
1
Dinda to Chawla, 1 run

short again from Dinda and it is pulled away this time by Chawla, getting him a single.

16.4
Dinda to Chawla, no run

played away to the off-side but does not get any runs.

16.3
Dinda to Chawla, no run

another bouncer and Chawla lets that go. Looks expectedly at the umpire for a wide but he is not getting one.

16.2
Dinda to Chawla, no run

an expected response from Dinda, short ball and Chawla was in two minds, whether or not to pull it. In the end, he pulled out!

16.1
4
Dinda to Chawla, FOUR runs

short of a good length and Chawla has smashed the bowler back to the long-off fence.

end of over 1611 runs
PBKS: 99/3CRR: 6.18 RRR: 4.25
Piyush Chawla10 (16b 1x4)
Shaun Marsh58 (52b 7x4 1x6)
Rahul Sharma 3-0-17-1
Ashish Nehra 3-0-22-0
15.6
1
Sharma to Chawla, 1 run

comes down the pitch and drives it on the full for a single to long-on.

15.5
1
Sharma to Marsh, 1 run

on the middle and Marsh needed to quickly come down on it, flick it away to the leg-side for a single.

15.4
1
Sharma to Chawla, 1 run

short one and that is pulled away by Chawla but only to deep square-leg for a run.

15.3
1
Sharma to Marsh, 1 run

pulls his length back and the batsman plays it away to square-leg for a run.

15.2
6
Sharma to Marsh, SIX runs

Shot, Six! He pitched it up to Marsh, who smacked it over long-on for a six! Into the stands and that is the first six of the innings.

15.1
1
Sharma to Chawla, 1 run

short ball from Rahul Sharma, Chawla tries to play the pull stroke and that goes high in the air, Mathews ran in from deep square-leg but fails to latch on despite diving full-length.

28 needed from five overs now.

end of over 1510 runs
PBKS: 88/3CRR: 5.86 RRR: 5.60
Shaun Marsh50 (49b 7x4)
Piyush Chawla7 (13b 1x4)
Ashish Nehra 3-0-22-0
Rahul Sharma 2-0-6-1
14.6
2
Nehra to Marsh, 2 runs

driven away to long-off and the batsmen come back for the second run that takes Marsh to his half-century! Excellent innings under pressure, especially after being out of form.

14.5
4
Nehra to Marsh, FOUR runs

pitched on middle, and Marsh has flicked it away to the mid-wicket fence for a one-bounce four.The umpire called it a six but later changed it to four.

14.4
1
Nehra to Chawla, 1 run

goes for a hit on the up but can get only up to the long-on, where it goes on a bounce for a single to long-off.

14.3
1
Nehra to Marsh, 1 run

short and pulled away to deep square-leg for a single

14.2
2
Nehra to Marsh, 2 runs

Dropped! That should have been caught at long-on by Ashok Dinda and it was Shaun Marsh. Marsh lofted him to long-off and Dinda ran in hard but the ball popped out of the hands!

14.1
Nehra to Marsh, no run

jags back into Marsh and he defends the ball into the off-side region.

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