Kings XI go down with a bang
On the last day of Adam Gilchrist's IPL career, another veteran, Azhar Mahmood, scored 80 off 44 balls to give Kings XI Punjab a consolation win against Mumbai Indians
18/05Result
69th match (D/N), Indian Premier League at Dharamsala, May 18 2013
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![Kings XI Punjab]( "Kings XI Punjab")
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![Mumbai Indians]( "Mumbai Indians")
133 (19.1/20 ov)
Player of the Match
18/05Result
69th match (D/N), Indian Premier League at Dharamsala, May 18 2013
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![Kings XI Punjab]( "Kings XI Punjab")
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![Mumbai Indians]( "Mumbai Indians")
133 (19.1/20 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
Azhar Mahmood
80(44) 8x4 - 4x6
Control %82%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 24 runs
- 2x4 - 1x6
SE Marsh
63(47) 11x4 - 0x6
Control %85%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 20 runs
- 3x4 - 0x6
Best performances - Bowlers
SL Malinga
- O4
- M0
- R39
- W3
- Eco9.75
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
PP Chawla
- O4
- M0
- R20
- W2
- Eco5.00
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Match Details
Toss
Mumbai Indians , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.25, Interval 17.25-17.45, Second Session 17.45-19.10
Match days
18 May 2013 - day/night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Points
Kings XI Punjab 2, Mumbai Indians 0
Scorecard Summary
KINGS XI PUNJAB 183/8 (20 OVERS)
- Shaun Marsh63 (47)
- Azhar Mahmood80 (44)
- Lasith Malinga3/39 (4)
- Kieron Pollard1/22 (2)
MUMBAI INDIANS 133 (19.1 OVERS)
- Ambati Rayudu26 (22)
- Rohit Sharma25 (25)
- Piyush Chawla2/20 (4)
- Azhar Mahmood2/24 (4)
Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Kanishkaa Balachandran
Presentation:
Rohit: "We didn't start off well. I thought it was chaseable. We kept losing wickets. Very difficult to come back. Plan was to see off the first 4-5 overs. I would like to congratulate him. We need to regroup. We got to leave the negatives out."
Gilchrist: "Harbhajan took my wicket many many times so I just wanted to mimic the reaction. Really well received by this fab crowd. 8 wins and 8 losses, that sums up our cricket the last three years. It will be interesting to see how careers go over the next few years. Happy to watch now and be entertained. Wonderful memories with Kings XI."
Azhar Mahmood is the Man of the Match: "I knew I was at 196 wickets in the last game. No.3 is a good number to bat on. I used the slower balls a lot. This Man of the Match is for my daughters. Quite fortunate to play under Gilchrist."
That's it from here. There will be another inspection in Bangalore at 8.10pm. That's if it doesn't rain between now and then. It's 7.55 as I write. Thanks for your company. Cheers!
End of match: Dhawal Kulkarni will not bat so it's victory to Kings XI. What a fitting moment for Gilchrist to depart. At least he had some fun in a dead rubber. He shares a laugh with the Mumbai players. He will take Harbhajan's case forever you reckon.
Gilchrist does a lap around the ground. It's not Kings XI's main home ground - it's Mohali, but the crowd loves him nevertheless. The whole team joins him.
Looks like the rain has delayed the toss in Bangalore. The rain has stopped but the groundstaff are in for a lot of work. That's not going to get underway too soon.
Aby Siby Kalappurayil: "So that means, Adam Gilchrist would end up his twenty20 career with 100% strike rate... Unbelievable"
Stay with us for the presentation. The host broadcasters are still discussing the dead rubber that was just completed, without a word on the status in Bangalore. Somebody send them a nudge, rather, a shove.
19.1
W
Gilchrist to Harbhajan Singh, OUT, Gilly bowls an innocuous off spinner and he gets a wicket first-ball! Harbhajan slogs one-handed, goes straight down Gurkeerat's throat at long-on, Gilly does the Gangnam! Rather the half Gangnam, charges off, leaps, you should have seen him celebrate!
Harbhajan Singh c Gurkeerat Singh b Gilchrist 5 (19m 8b 0x4 0x6) SR: 62.50
The last over a mere formality. Believe it or not Gilchrist is bowling! Praveen Kumar to keep wicket. Not kidding
END OF OVER:19 | 3 Runs 1 Wkt | MI: 133/8 (51 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 7.00, RRR: 51.00)
- Harbhajan Singh5 (7b)
- Lasith Malinga1 (1b)
- Azhar Mahmood4-0-24-2
- Sandeep Sharma4-0-39-2
18.6
1
Azhar Mahmood to Harbhajan Singh, 1 run, pushes a yorker down to long-off
18.5
0
Azhar Mahmood to Harbhajan Singh, no run, another good yorker, outside the off stump and he fails to dig it out
18.4
0
Azhar Mahmood to Harbhajan Singh, no run, that's a good slower ball, swings and misses it
18.3
1
Azhar Mahmood to Malinga, 1 run, that was the slower one and he chips it towards mid-on
The rain has picked up in Bangalore so the toss will certainly be delayed
18.2
W
Azhar Mahmood to Coulter-Nile, OUT, the off stump is flattened! This was a inswinging yorker, tough to dig those out, Coulter-Nile jams his bat on the pitch and the off stump is down, that's his 200th wicket in T20
NM Coulter-Nile b Azhar Mahmood 9 (7m 6b 0x4 1x6) SR: 150.00
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