Another 200+ Target Bites the Dust As KXIP Rules the Points Table Again

Sidelights:

It seems that KXIP has announced that no team should give them a target in excess of 200, at least in this edition of IPL. This time their main stay Glenn Maxwell and Miller did well but not that well but then Wriddhiman Saha and Manan Vohra came to the party and scored record 86 runs in the Powerplay it self which means that from then on it was a stroll in the park for KXIP.

IPL 7 | Match 39 | SRH Vs KXIP

Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Toss: KXIP and elected to field first

Playing XIs:

SRH: Aaron Finch, Shikhar Dhawan, Naman Ojha, David Warner, Moises Henriques, Irfan Pathan, Karan Sharma, KL Rahul, Dale Steyn, Amit Mishra, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar

KXIP: Virender Sehwag, Manan Vohra, Wriddhiman Saha, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, George Bailey, Akshar Patel, Mitchell Johnson, Shivam Sharma, Rishi Dhawan, Sandeep Sharma

Mini Score Card:

SRH 205/5 (20) Run rate: 10.25

Naman Ojha 79* (36) | Rishi Dhawan 2/42 (4)

Shikhar Dhawan 45 (37) | Shivam Sharma 1/31 (4)

KXIP 211/4 (18.4) Run rate: 11.30

Wriddhiman Saha 54 (26) | Amit Mishra 1/32 (4)

Manan Vohra 47 (20) | Bhuvaneshwar Kumar 1/38 (3.4)

Result: KXIP won by 6 wickets

Points: KXIP 2 (Total 16) | SRH 0 (Total 8)

Man of the match: Wriddhiman Saha (KXIP)

Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni | Pashchim Pathak | Kumar Dharmasena (3^rd) | A Nand Kishore (Reserve)

Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama

How they played the game:

Powerplay: SRH 55 runs, 0 wickets | KXIP 86 runs, 1 wicket

First 50 runs: SRH 34 balls | KXIP 22 balls

50-100 runs: SRH 45 balls | KXIP 23 balls

100-150 runs: SRH 27 balls | KXIP 26 balls

150-200 runs: SRH 16 balls | KXIP 38 balls

EXTRAS: KXIP 15 (LB 1, Wd 11, NB 3) | SRH 4 (LB 3, NB 1)

Best Partnership

SRH: 3^rd wicket – 81 runs off 42 between Warner 44 (23) and Ojha 36* (19)

KXIP: 2^nd wicket – 91 runs off 41 balls between Saha 54 (26) and Vohra 36 (15)

Fours and SIXES

SRH 14 Fours – Dhawan -5, Ojha- 4, Warner – 3, Finch – 2 | 12 SIXES – Ojha – 7, Warner – 3, Dhawan – 2

KXIP 19 Fours – Saha – 8, Vohra – 5, 2 – Maxwell, Bailey, 1 – Sehwag, Miller | 12 SIXES – 5 – Maxwell, 3 – Bailey, 2 – Vohra and Saha

Important Fact about the match:

• KXIP’s 86/1 in their first 6 overs are the most runs scored in the Powerplay by any team in the history of IPL.
• 0/51 is Dale Steyn’s worst figures in any T20 game.
• Sandeep Sharma’s figures of 1/65 is now the joint worst figures of IPL

In the PIC: Wriddhiman Saha’s fifty in just 22 balls laid the foundation

Picture Courtesy: ESPN – Cricinfo