The match held between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals on
Friday 9th may, 2013, at Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali
Rahul Dravid the captain of Rajasthan Royals successfully won
the toss and elected for fielding.
The match accurate time was 02:06 IST,
SERIES Indian Premier
League, 2013. MATCH REFEREE: Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka). Match timings: 16:00
IST-19:30 IST. The Rajasthan Royals VS Kings XI Punjab match umpires are Kumar
Dharmasena (Sri Lanka), S Ravi (India) and third umpire CK Na. Toss winner: Rajasthan
Royals, choose to field
Runs and wickets of the match: Kings XI Punjab 145 runs for
6 wickets and Rajasthan Royals 147 runs for 2 wickets. Rajasthan Royals, batting,
Rahul Dravid, 5 runs for 7 balls, catch out by b Bipul Sharma. Ajinkya Rahane,
59 runs from 49 balls, not out. Shane Watson 31 runs from 25 balls, stepped by
Piyush Chawla. StemppedSanju Samson 47 runs from 33 balls. Totally with 147
runs they won the match (wide ball no ball all included)
The win was set up primarily by Kevon Cooper, whose three
wickets decelerated Punjab's innings at a time when a total in excess of 160
looked likely. That spark rubbed off on Ajinkya Rahane (59 not out) who
continued in his rich vein of form to register his third consecutive fifty as
Rajasthan breezed past the Punjab score of 145 for 6 with one over to spare.
Punjab didn't do their chances any harm when Adam Gilchrist
and Shaun Marsh set things up with a 102-run stand for the second wicket. Marsh
(77 in 64 balls) scored more than half the team's total, but losing wickets in
a cluster at the other end meant accelerating towards the death was always
going to be difficult. Gilchrist, Marsh and Miller (8) Bipul Sharma, the left
hand spin bowler's first game in IPL match (4)
Credit for that should go to Cooper, who used his subtle
variations to deceive the batsmen, picking up three prized scalps - Gilchrist,
Marsh and Miller (8) - at crucial stages of the innings.
Kings XI Punjab Team Rajasthan Royals
Mandeep Singh
Rahul Dravid
Shaun Marsh
Shane Watson
David Miller
Brad Hodge
Rajagopal Sathish
James Faulkner
Praveen Kumar
Ajit Chandila
Parvinder Awana
Siddharth Trivedi
Adam Gilchrist
Ajinkya Rahane
David Hussey
Sanju Samson
Manpreet Gony
Dishant Yagnik
Piyush Chawla Kevon Cooper
Bipul Sharma
Sreesanth
Their ninth win in 13 matches ensured Rajasthan had a foot
in the playoffs, while for Punjab, the climb towards the playoffs just got
tougher with each of their four games from here on reduced to must-win affairs.