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Best performances - Batsmen

KL Rahul
KL Rahul
61(49) 1x4 - 5x6
Control %84%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 16 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
1 4 18 3 7 1 11 16
CH Gayle
CH Gayle
53(45) 1x4 - 5x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 17 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
1 0 1 7 6 18 11 9

Best performances - Bowlers

M Ashwin
O4
M0
R23
W2
Eco5.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
Mohammed Shami
Mohammed Shami
O4
M0
R45
W2
Eco11.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Royal Challengers Bangalore , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

18.00 start, First Session 18.00-19.30, Interval 19.30-19.50, Second Session 19.50- 21.20

Match days

15 October 2020 - night match (20-over match)

Match Referee

Points

Kings XI Punjab 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0

Commentator: Varun Shetty

END OF OVER:
20 | 7 Runs 1 Wkt | PBKS: 177/2 | RR: 8.85

  • Nicholas Pooran6 (1b)
  • KL Rahul61 (49b)
  • Yuzvendra Chahal3-0-35-1
  • Isuru Udana2-0-14-0

9:53pm And that is all from us tonight. Thanks for joining and see you tomorrow!

KL Rahul: I don't even have words. We knew that we had to scrap and get over the line once and that would give us the confidence. We're a far better side than bottom of the table. Towards the end it got too close for comfort but happy that we made it. It's very natural to feel disappointed and frustrated and it's not just me, as a group we've been frustrated. Our skills were very good, probably didn't capitalise in the big moments starting with the first game at Delhi. It's part of the IPL, it's part of cricket. There are ups and downs and this has been the kind of rollercoaster that's been crazy but on a positive note we needed this win. At the moment, my first time as captain, you kind of don't reflect on your own performance. As a leader you need to think of everybody and how to manage the 15 or the 25 balanced and hungry to do well. That's been the challenge so personal performances haven't been on my mind so much. Chris has nott been feeling well but he's always been hungry. Anyone who saw him, he was training hard like he's probably never done. It was a tough call to make not to play someone like that. I won't take credit but it's important to keep the lion hungry sometimes. Wherever he bats, he's still the same player and it worked today. Hopefully he can carry on.

KL Rahul is the Man of the Match.

C Gayle: Not really nervous. I mean, come on. It's Universe Boss batting, how can I be nervous. It was a very sticky surface, very slow, but it was better batting second. Team asked me to do a job at 3 and it wasn't an issue. Openers been batting well throughout the tournament and we didn't want to disturb that. Like I said, I was given a job and took it. All I was saying, put some respect on the name [by pointing to his bat sticker]. That's all.

V Kohli: It was quite surprising, we thought the game might finish in the 18th. A bit of pressure at the back end can confuse you, anything can happen in this game. Good performance by KXIP, we were not in the game tonight. [About AB batting at 6] We had a chat, a message from outside about left-right combination and we wanted to go with it because they had two leggies. Sometimes things don't come off. We're pretty happy with the decisions we took, but it didn't come off. Having 170 was a decent score. The idea was to let them [Dube and Sundar] to get their eye in. They bowled well. It's not a great ground for bowlers but that's not an excuse. We take pride in our bowling. tonight it didn't come off and we have to accept it and take responsibility. There's always something to learn to go back and understand. There was no conversation with Chahal to be honest. The only conversation was with the last ball, we wanted him to push it away. Credit to Nicholas.


Rama: "KL Rahul is a great cricketer. He needs to enjoy the game. He shows stress on his face. Rahul, just enjoy you have nothing to lose."

Sandip Sinharay: "Please--Ashwin for Player of the Match!"

Prasanth: "A real masterclass in closing out a game in the last five /s"

Amit : "KXIP batted like a team not used to winning"

Ramesh: "Classic example of taking an easy match too deep."

9:33pm Kings XI complete there second win of the season, and they've both come against RCB. Once again, they managed to complicate it for themselves at the end but they'd done just enough earlier in the chase. After a good bowling performance against an experimental batting order from RCB, they got off to another good start with their openers. Chirs Gayle came in for his first game of the season and found himself in quicksand for the early part of the innings. But he ended up hitting five sixes and those are the shots that turn batting innings. Punjab were assisted quite a bit by some of RCB's tactics tonight. Rahul was there at the end, possibly questioning himself about calling for the run off the penultimate ball, but it all worked out tonight. They stay bottom of the table but the gap is now closed to two points. For RCB, a chance to go second missed.

19.6
6
Chahal to Pooran, SIX, just clears long-on! Just past long-on's outstretched right hand. Chahal tosses it up slow like he has all over, but this one is fuller. So Pooran steps out and meets it as a full toss. It comes off the toe-end and Morris is stretching to his right at long-on but it's past him

Pooran the new man. Chahal is around the wicket. Looks like long-on is the only one back. No, midwicket is back as well. So they've protecte against the big slog, everyone else is in. And Chahal pulls up in his run-up...

19.5
W
Chahal to Rahul, OUT, run-out! Gayle is walking off! Oh KXIP, how, time and again, do you make it so complex for yourselves? This is lovely bowling from Chahal, offering no pace on it and landing it short of a length outside off. Rahul punches it to cover and takes off instinctively. Gayle is not the man to complete that single at this point in his career. It's a clean pick up, it's a one-bounce throw, and it's a new batsman on strike for the last ball

CH Gayle run out 53 (45b 1x4 5x6) SR: 117.77

19.4
0
Chahal to Rahul, no run, just short of catching point! Slow, short of a length and turning away outside off. Cut on the bounce to the fielder lunging forward

Everyone comes into the circle now

19.3
1
Chahal to Gayle, 1 run, lovely work from Padikka; at deep midwicket. This one is tossed up wide too and Gayle reaches and lofts the sweep. Padikkal has an awkward bounce to his right after running across and he does supernly to pat it in on the half-volley with one hand
19.2
0
Chahal to Gayle, no run, loopy legbreak foxes Gayle. Whew that spun in a long way, tossed up wide and at a length and he left that alone
19.1
0
Chahal to Gayle, no run, good length and turning into leg stump, pulled on the bounce to midwicket

Chahal to bowl the last over. Around the wicket.

Kings XI 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st78MA AgarwalKL Rahul
2nd93CH GayleKL Rahul
3rd6KL RahulN Pooran