Hashim Amla's 27-ball 30 gave Kings XI Punjab a solid start after they elected to bat in their final match of IPL 2016 BCCI
R Ashwin and George Bailey combined to give Rising Pune Supergiants their first wicket in the eighth over when Amla was caught at midwicket BCCI
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Wriddhiman Saha didn't hang in for long, but Gurkeerat Singh and M Vijay added 58 for the third wicket AFP
Vijay top-scored with 59 off 41 balls, before falling on the slog to Ashwin BCCI
Gurkeerat holed out to Deepak Chahar at deep square leg in the 18th over for a 30-ball 51 BCCI
Supergiants then pegged Kings XI back with a flurry of wickets. Kings XI lost three wickets for six runs and were restricted to 172 for 7 BCCI
Supergiants' chase got off to a brisk start until Sandeep Sharma provided the breakthrough by having Ajinkya Rahane caught behind BCCI
George Bailey and Saurabh Tiwary fell for low scores, and Usman Khawaja scored a sluggish 30 before holing out to deep midwicket to leave Supergiants on 80 for 4 AFP
Supergiants were left clinging on to MS Dhoni, who had walked in with them needing 95 off 52 balls BCCI
Dhoni found able support in the form of Thisara Perera, who struck two fours and a six to keep Supergiants alive. Dhoni and Perera added 58 for the sixth wicket off just 29 balls BCCI
After Perera's dismissal, Dhoni farmed the strike and took the onus of knocking off the remaining runs. With the equation down to 23 off the last over, the Supergiants captain faced two dots in the first three legitimate balls, and then clobbered a four and two sixes off Axar Patel to seal a last-ball win and ensure his team didn't finish last BCCI
