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Kings XI Punjab were the semi-finalists in IPL T20 season 1 but this year they failed to impress with two consecutive losses in their first two matches. Rain was also not favorable and Preity Zinta’s team had matches affected by rain too. Bangalore Royal Challengers was not very impressive too under new captain Kevin Pietersen with two consecutive losses although they won their first match against Rajasthan Royals. Today’s 11th Match of IPL T20 season 2 was important for both sides. Pietersen won the toss and decided to bat but he was himself unimpressive once again and went off for a duck. However, some good batting by Jacques Kallis (62 off 46 balls), Ross Taylor (35 off 22 balls) and Jesse Ryder (32 off 21 balls) helped the Challengers to reach a total of 168/9 in 20 overs. Yusuf Abdulla and Irfan Pathan had the best bowling statistics for the Kings with 4/31 and 3/35 respectively. The Kings started their batting without taking much risks and Ravi Bopara (84 off 59 balls) steered the Kings XI Punjab to victory with valuable contributions from Yuvraj Singh (30 off 17 balls) and Kumar Sangakkara (26 off 18 balls) with one over to spare. Ravi Bopara was awarded the Man of the Match for his 84 runs off 59 balls.

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Bangalore Royal Challengers

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Jesse Ryder b Yusuf Abdulla 32 21 6 0 152.38
Robin Uthappa (W) c Yuvraj Singh b Irfan Pathan 0 1 0 0 0
Jacques Kallis c Mahela Jayawardena b Yusuf Abdulla 62 46 5 2 134.78
Kevin Pietersen (C) c Karan Goel b Yusuf Abdulla 0 2 0 0 0
Rahul Dravid c VRV Singh b Piyush Chawla 10 13 0 0 76.92
Ross Taylor c Mahela Jayawardena b Yusuf Abdulla 35 22 4 2 159.09
Virat Kohli c Ravi Bopara b VRV Singh 2 3 0 0 66.67
Praveen Kumar lbw b Irfan Pathan 13 7 0 1 185.71
Vinay Kumar not out 1 1 0 0 100
Pankaj Singh b Irfan Pathan 0 1 0 0 0
Anil Kumble not out 5 3 1 0 166.67
Extras: b – 4, w – 3, nb – 0, lb – 1 8
Total: (168 for 9 wickets in 20.0 overs) 168 Run Rate: 8.4

Fall of Wickets1-6 (Robin Uthappa, 1.1), 2-48 (Jesse Ryder, 5.2), 3-48 (Kevin Pietersen, 5.4), 4-73 (Rahul Dravid, 10.3), 5-134 (Jacques Kallis, 16.3), 6-142 (Virat Kohli, 17.4), 7-159 (Ross Taylor, 18.4), 8-162 (Praveen Kumar, 19.1), 9-162 (Pankaj Singh, 19.2)

Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ranadeb Bose 2 0 24 0 0 0 12
Irfan Pathan 4 0 35 3 0 0 8.75
Yusuf Abdulla 4 0 31 4 0 3 7.75
Piyush Chawla 4 0 19 1 0 0 4.75
Yuvraj Singh 3 0 28 0 0 0 9.33
Ravi Bopara 1 0 4 0 0 0 4
VRV Singh 2 0 22 1 0 0 11

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Kings XI Punjab

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Ravi Bopara c Jesse Ryder b Jacques Kallis 84 59 4 5 142.37
Karan Goel run out (Vinay Kumar) 19 19 1 0 100
Kumar Sangakkara (W) c Pankaj Singh b Anil Kumble 26 18 2 1 144.44
Yuvraj Singh (C) not out 30 17 3 1 176.47
Mahela Jayawardena not out 1 1 0 0 100
Irfan Pathan
Wilkin Mota
Piyush Chawla
VRV Singh
Ranadeb Bose
Yusuf Abdulla
Extras: b – 1, w – 9, nb – 0, lb – 3 13
Total: (173 for 3 wickets in 19.0 overs) 173 Run Rate: 9.11

Fall of Wickets1-52 (Karan Goel, 6.4), 2-92 (Kumar Sangakkara, 12.3), 3-158 (Ravi Bopara, 18.1)

Bowling (Bangalore)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Praveen Kumar 4 0 36 0 0 1 9
Pankaj Singh 2 0 20 0 0 2 10
Jacques Kallis 4 0 51 1 0 2 12.75
Vinay Kumar 1 0 4 0 0 0 4
Kevin Pietersen 2 0 16 0 0 0 8
Anil Kumble 4 0 19 1 0 0 4.75
Jesse Ryder 2 0 23 0 0 0 11.5

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Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6

Rajasthan Royals entered IPL T20 season 2 as the defending champions and the expectations were quite high on them to perform. But Warne and his boys could not pull up a win against the Bangalore Royal Challengers which was led under a new captain Kevin Pieterse. However, it was proved once again in this match that the veterans are the pillars of any team and the two best performances in this match were Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble. Pietersen won the toss and decided to bat first. They were put on the backfoot by an exceptional bowling by Rajasthan Royals bolwers initially led by Dimitri Mascarenhas who took two wickets in the first three balls of the match. The Royal Challengers initially seemed to be unable to take on the challenge of the Royals but Rahul Dravid’s brilliant innings (66 off 48 balls) and Kevin Pietersen’s innings (32 off 30 balls) helped the Royal Challengers reach a score of 133 off their 20 overs. The target seemed to be quite easy but Rajasthan Royals had a terrible start where none of their batsmen could bat for long and they lost wickets and regular intervals. They could not increase their run rate too and an excellent spell by Anil Kumble picking 5 wickets for 5 runs made sure that they were bundled out for the second lowest t20 total ever of 58 runs. Rahul Dravid was declared as the man of the match for the game.

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 Bangalore
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Jesse Ryder c Mahesh Rawat b Dimitri Mascarenhas 0 2 0 0 0
Robin Uthappa (W) c Mahesh Rawat b Dimitri Mascarenhas 3 10 0 0 30
Ross Taylor b Dimitri Mascarenhas 0 1 0 0 0
Kevin Pietersen (C) c Niraj Patel b Tyron Henderson 32 30 4 0 106.67
Rahul Dravid c Shane Warne b Munaf Patel 66 48 8 1 137.5
Virat Kohli b Shane Warne 3 8 0 0 37.5
Balachandra Akhil b Shane Warne 9 9 1 0 100
Praveen Kumar c & b Munaf Patel 8 10 0 1 80
Vinay Kumar not out 8 2 2 0 400
Dale Steyn * not out 0 0 0 0
Anil Kumble
Extras: b – 0, w – 2, nb – 0, lb – 2 4  
Total: (133 for 8 wickets in 20.0 overs) 133 Run Rate: 6.65
Fall of Wickets
1-0 (Jesse Ryder, 0.2), 2-0 (Ross Taylor, 0.3), 3-17 (Robin Uthappa, 4.5), 4-52 (Kevin Pietersen, 8.5), 5-63 (Virat Kohli, 11.5), 6-88 (Balachandra Akhil, 15.4), 7-119 (Praveen Kumar, 19.2), 8-125 (Rahul Dravid, 19.4)
Bowling (Jaipur)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dimitri Mascarenhas 4 0 20 3 0 0 5
Kamran Khan 3 0 21 0 0 0 7
Munaf Patel 3 0 25 2 0 1 8.33
Tyron Henderson 4 0 30 1 0 0 7.5
Shane Warne 4 0 18 2 0 0 4.5
Yusuf Pathan 2 0 17 0 0 1 8.5
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Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6
  Jaipur
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Graeme Smith c Rahul Dravid b Praveen Kumar 2 11 0 0 18.18
Swapnil Asnodkar c Virat Kohli b Praveen Kumar 0 2 0 0 0
Niraj Patel c Anil Kumble b Jesse Ryder 4 16 0 0 25
Tyron Henderson b Jesse Ryder 11 15 0 1 73.33
Yusuf Pathan c Jesse Ryder b Anil Kumble 11 14 1 0 78.57
Dimitri Mascarenhas run out (Virat Kohli) 0 1 0 0 0
Ravindra Jadeja c Virat Kohli b Anil Kumble 11 10 0 1 110
Shane Warne (C) st Robin Uthappa b Anil Kumble 3 9 0 0 33.33
Mahesh Rawat (W) not out 4 7 0 0 57.14
Munaf Patel c Dale Steyn b Anil Kumble 0 2 0 0 0
Kamran Khan c Robin Uthappa b Anil Kumble 3 5 0 0 60
Extras: b – 0, w – 7, nb – 1, lb – 1 9  
Total: (58 for 10 wickets in 15.1 overs) 58 Run Rate: 3.82
Fall of Wickets
1-2 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 0.5), 2-7 (Graeme Smith, 3), 3-14 (Niraj Patel, 6.2), 4-28 (Tyron Henderson, 8.3), 5-28 (Dimitri Mascarenhas, 8.4), 6-47 (Yusuf Pathan, 11.1), 7-47 (Ravindra Jadeja, 11.2), 8-53 (Shane Warne, 13.3), 9-53 (Munaf Patel, 13.5), 10-58 (Kamran Khan, 15.1)
Bowling (Bangalore)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Praveen Kumar 3 0 7 2 1 2 2.33
Dale Steyn 2 0 6 0 0 3 3
Vinay Kumar 3 0 25 0 0 1 8.33
Jesse Ryder 4 0 14 2 0 1 3.5
Anil Kumble 3.1 1 5 5 0 0 1.58