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Winners of IPL T20 season 1 Rajasthan Royals are not looking the same side this year. Kings XI Punjab beat Warne’s boys by 27 runs to score their second consecutive win in IPL T20 season 2 while Rajasthan Royals suffered their second consecutive defeat. Yuvraj Singh won the toss and decided to bat. The Rajasthan Royals bowlers bowled exceptionally well in the initial overs and the Kings XI Punjab were reduced to just 48/4 in 8.2 overs. But then Kumar Sangakkara (60 off 51 balls) and Irfan Pathan (39 off 33 balls) batted brilliantly to guide the team to a competitive total of 139/6 in their 20 overs. Amongst the Rajasthan bowlers, Kamran Khan and Munaf Patel bowled very well and finished at 2/15 and 2/24 respectively in their 4 overs. The target of 140 seemed quite easy but Rajasthan Royals had a severe batting collapse and ended with only 112/7 in their 20 overs. Shane Warne and Ravindra Jadeja did considerably well for the Rajasthan Royals batting while Yusuf Abdulla, Irfan Pathan and Piyush Chawla excelled with the ball. Kumar Sangakkara was declared the Man of the Match for his 60 runs.

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Kings XI Punjab

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Ravi Bopara c Munaf Patel b Kamran Khan 11 15 2 0 73.33
Karan Goel run out (Ravindra Jadeja) 0 0 0 0
Kumar Sangakkara (W) run out (Mahesh Rawat) 60 51 7 1 117.65
Yuvraj Singh (C) c Mahesh Rawat b Munaf Patel 2 3 0 0 66.67
Mahela Jayawardena c Kamran Khan b Munaf Patel 7 10 0 0 70
Irfan Pathan b Kamran Khan 39 33 2 2 118.18
Piyush Chawla not out 6 6 1 0 100
Wilkin Mota not out 1 2 0 0 50
Ramesh Powar
VRV Singh
Yusuf Abdulla
Extras: b – 2, w – 9, nb – 0, lb – 2 13
Total: (139 for 6 wickets in 20.0 overs) 139 Run Rate: 6.95

Fall of Wickets1-0 (Karan Goel, 0.1), 2-21 (Ravi Bopara, 4.1), 3-38 (Yuvraj Singh, 6.1), 4-48 (Mahela Jayawardena, 8.2), 5-123 (Irfan Pathan, 18.1), 6-130 (Kumar Sangakkara, 19)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Kamran Khan 4 0 15 2 0 3 3.75
Dimitri Mascarenhas 4 0 29 0 0 0 7.25
Munaf Patel 4 0 24 2 0 1 6
Yusuf Pathan 4 0 30 0 0 4 7.5
Shane Warne 4 0 37 0 0 0 9.25

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Rajasthan Royals

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Swapnil Asnodkar c Ramesh Powar b Irfan Pathan 3 4 0 0 75
Graeme Smith c Kumar Sangakkara b Irfan Pathan 2 6 0 0 33.33
Rob Quiney c Kumar Sangakkara b Yusuf Abdulla 7 8 1 0 87.5
Yusuf Pathan c Karan Goel b Piyush Chawla 10 13 2 0 76.92
Dimitri Mascarenhas b Yusuf Abdulla 4 2 1 0 200
Ravindra Jadeja b Yusuf Abdulla 37 44 2 0 84.09
Abhishek Raut c Ramesh Powar b Piyush Chawla 1 4 0 0 25
Shane Warne (C) not out 34 33 3 0 103.03
Mahesh Rawat (W) not out 4 6 0 0 66.67
Munaf Patel
Kamran Khan
Extras: b – 0, w – 5, nb – 0, lb – 5 10
Total: (112 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 112 Run Rate: 5.6

Fall of Wickets1-7 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 1.1), 2-9 (Graeme Smith, 1.5), 3-23 (Rob Quiney, 4.1), 4-27 (Dimitri Mascarenhas, 4.3), 5-36 (Yusuf Pathan, 6.4), 6-42 (Abhishek Raut, 8.4), 7-102 (Ravindra Jadeja, 18.1)

Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ramesh Powar 2 0 10 0 0 1 5
Irfan Pathan 4 0 26 2 0 3 6.5
Yusuf Abdulla 4 0 21 3 0 1 5.25
VRV Singh 4 0 19 0 0 0 4.75
Piyush Chawla 4 0 22 2 0 0 5.5
Yuvraj Singh 2 0 9 0 0 0 4.5

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Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab had both loss their first match and both of them wanted to open their points tally with this match. Kolkata won the toss and put Kings XI Punjab to bat.  With good batting from Irfan Pathan (32 off 17 balls), Yuvraj Singh (38 off 28 balls), Mahela Jayawardena (31 off 19 balls) and Kumar Sangakarra (26 off 24 balls), Punjab reached a competitive total of 158/6 in their 2o overs.  Sourav Ganguly was the best bowling figures for the Knight Riders picking up 4/24 in his 4 overs.  But KKR went off to a flier with Chris Gayle (44 off 26 balls) and Brendon Mccullum (21 off 16 balls) smashing the weak King XI bowling lineup for fours and sixes. Rain then interrupted the match but the results were in favour of Kolkata Knight Riders who won the match by D/L method. Chris Gayle was awarded the Man of the Match for his fiery innings of 44 off 26 balls.

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Mohali
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Ravi Bopara c Brendon McCullum b Sourav Ganguly 15 15 2 0 100
Karan Goel c Chris Gayle b Ishant Sharma 0 7 0 0 0
Irfan Pathan c Murali Kartik b Sourav Ganguly 32 17 5 1 188.24
Kumar Sangakkara (W) run out (Aakash Chopra) 26 24 2 0 108.33
Yuvraj Singh (C) c Yashpal Singh b Moises Henriques 38 28 3 2 135.71
Mahela Jayawardena * not out 31 19 3 1 163.16
Taruwar Kohli c Brendon McCullum b Ashok Dinda 1 4 0 0 25
Piyush Chawla not out 3 6 0 0 50
Vikramjeet Malik
VRV Singh
Yusuf Abdulla
Extras: b – 1, w – 11, nb – 0, lb – 0 12
Total: (158 for 6 wickets in 20.0 overs) 158 Run Rate: 7.9

Fall of Wickets1-9 (Karan Goel, 2.2), 2-47 (Irfan Pathan, 6.2), 3-48 (Ravi Bopara, 6.4), 4-104 (Kumar Sangakkara, 14.1), 5-122 (Yuvraj Singh, 15.4), 6-131 (Taruwar Kohli, 17.2)

Bowling (Kolkata)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ishant Sharma 4 0 24 1 0 0 6
Ashok Dinda 4 0 34 1 0 1 8.5
Moises Henriques 4 0 32 1 0 1 8
Sourav Ganguly 4 0 24 2 0 0 6
Laxmi Shukla 2 0 22 0 0 2 11
Chris Gayle 1 0 14 0 0 3 14
Murali Kartik 1 0 7 0 0 0 7

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Kolkata
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Brendon McCullum (C) (W) c Kumar Sangakkara b Vikramjeet Malik 21 16 1 2 131.25
Chris Gayle not out 44 26 2 4 169.23
Brad Hodge not out 10 14 0 0 71.43
Sourav Ganguly
Aakash Chopra
Yashpal Singh
Laxmi Shukla
Moises Henriques
Murali Kartik
Ishant Sharma
Ashok Dinda
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 0 4
Total: (79 for 1 wicket in 9.2 overs) 79 Run Rate: 8.46

Fall of Wickets1-57 (Brendon McCullum, 5.3)

Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Irfan Pathan 3 0 27 0 0 2 9
Yusuf Abdulla 2 0 20 0 0 2 10
Vikramjeet Malik 2 0 23 1 0 0 11.5
Piyush Chawla 2 0 8 0 0 0 4
Ravi Bopara 0.2 0 1 0 0 0 3

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