Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 23: Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals"

Hello and Welcome to 23rd match of IPL 2011 season between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals. IPL 2011 season is wide open with no clear dictators so far and each team has showed their strenghts and weaknesses. Lets see what these teams have to offer today.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bowl first. Gilchrist and Valthaty opened the batting for Kings XI Punjab. Kings XI Punjab had a powerful start when Gilchrist and Valthaty blasted all the Rajasthan Royals bowlers to all corners of the park. They made 67 of just 4 overs. Once Gilchrist was out of the bowling of Watson, Valthaty took the scoring burden on his shoulders and played few glorious shots. Once Valthaty was out of the bowling of warne, SE Marsh took it on him to score and with the combined effort Punjab made a fantastic 195 of their 20 overs. For Kings XI Punjab SE March scored 71 and Valthaty 46, for Rajasthan Royals Tait took 3 and Watson 2 wickets respectively.

In reply Rajasthan Royals had a horror start when their openers Dravid and Asnodkar where back to the pavilion within first 3 overs. Watson and Binny tried to increase the temp but once Watson was out of the bowling of Kumar the flood gates where open and wickets kept falling at regular intervals. Rajasthan where bowled out for 147 and Kings XI Punjab won convinsingly by 48 runs. For Rajasthan Royals Menaria scored 34 and Binny 30, for Kings XI Punjab Bhatt and Praveen Kumar took 2 wickets each.


Man of the Match is SE Marsh of Kings XI Punjab for his brutal innings of 71


Score : Kings XI Punjab 195 for 7 (Marsh 71, Valthaty 46, Tait 3/22 , Watson 2/24) beat Rajasthan Royals 147 for 7 (Menaria 34, Binny 30, Praveen 2/22, Bhatt 2/20) by 48 runs

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 9: Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings"

Hello and welcome to the 9th Match of the IPL 2011 Season between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings. Chennai Super Kings after initial success and looking pretty good and Kings XI Punjab after their disastrous first match are looking to start it fresh. Lets see who will have the upper hand going forward in IPL 2011 season.

Kings XI Punjab won the toss and selected to bowl first. For Chennai Super Kings S Anirudha and M Vijay opened the batting, for Kings XI Punjab P Kumar openined the bowling. Kings XI Punjab tasted success when P Kumar got the wicket of S Anirudha of the very first ball and SK Raina of the very next ball. M Vijay and S Badrinath then shared a brilliant 124 partnership in less than 15 overs. When M Vijay was out to PP Chawla MS Dhoni joined S Badrinath and scored 64 of the next 5 overs and gave Chennai Super kings an excellent total of 188 for the loss of 4 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. For Chennai Super kings M Vijay Scored 74, S Badrinath scored 66* and MS Dhoni 43, for Kings XI Punjab P Kumar took 2 wickets.

In reply Kings XI Punjab opened with PC Valthaty (A relatively new face) and their captain AC Gilchrist, as usual R Ashwin opened the bowling for Chennai Super Kings. Kings XI Punjab had a fanstastic start when PC Valthaty blasted chennai super kings bowlers to all parts of the ground. Inspite of Kings XI Punjab loosing wickets at one end, he continued his clean hits from other end and kept the required run rate under control. KD Karthik joined him in the end and PC Valthaty and KD Karthik took Kings XI Punjab home with 6 wickets in hand and nearly one over to spare. PC Valthaty scored a brillinat century and paced the chase brilliantly. For Kings XI Punjab PC Valthaty scored 120* and KD Karthik 21*, for Chennai Super kings TG Southee, JA Morkel and S Randiv took a wicket a piece.


Man of the Match is PC Valthaty for his brilliant century.

Score : Kings XI Punjab 193 for 4 (PC Valthaty 120*, KD Karthik 21*, S Randiv 1/32) beat Chennai Super Kings 188 for 4 (M Vijay 74, S Badrinath 66*, MS Dhoni 43, P Kumar 2/37) by six wickets