M Vijay settled into his shot-making stride with three fours off the third over BCCI
His opening partner, Marcus Stoinis, clubbed three fours and a six as the pair added 65 runs in 6.4 overs AFP
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Chinaman bowler Shivil Kaushil - who bowls with an action similar to Paul Adams - dismissed Shaun Marsh and Glenn Maxwell off successive balls in his first over AFP
Vijay, though, brought up his half-century off 36 balls on debut as IPL captain BCCI
Just as Vijay looked to cut loose, Kaushik had him caught at deep midwicket for 55 BCCI
David Miller chipped in with a slow 31 in his first match after being relieved of captaincy BCCI
Wriddhiman Saha made 33 off 19 balls, but Kings XI Punjab lost their last five wickets for 15 runs and were skittled for 154 BCCI
Brendon McCullum was bowled for 1 by Mohit Sharma in the second over of the chase BCCI
Three overs later, Mohit dismissed Suresh Raina in a similar manner AFP
In his first over, Axar Patel dented Gujarat Lions' chase with a triple-strike, including the wickets of Dinesh Karthik and Dwayne Bravo off the last two balls AFP
Axar then dismissed Ravindra Jadeja off the first ball of his next over to claim the first hat-trick of IPL 2016 AFP
James Faulkner provided some late resistance, but Kings XI's bowlers struck regularly and secured a 23-run win AFP
