Today’s Match
Match 32 IPL 2013 –Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab
Date – Tue Apr 23
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Toss – Kings XI Punjab elected to field
Result – Kings XI Punjab won by 5 wickets
Today in the 32nd match of IPL Season 6, Kings XI Punjab won the toss and invited Delhi to bat first. Delhi Daredevils again opened with Mahela Jayawardene and Virender Sehwag with a hope to repeat last match’s heroics but Parveen Kumar got the wicket of Mahela Jayawardene in the very first over to reduce Delhi to 4/1 in 0.4 overs. Roelof van der Merwe also got out after scoring just 8 and left Delhi at 22/2 in 3.2 overs. Sehwag then played some good shots and just when he started to look dangerous, Harmeet Singh got his wicket.Sehwag departed after scoring 23 off 21 balls and Delhi were struggling at 45/3 in 7 overs. David Warner and Manprit Juneja then took the team score to 84 when Harmeet striked twice and got the wicket of Manprit and Kedar Jadav and left Delhi struggling at 85/5 in 13.5 overs. Johan Botha also out after scoring just 1 and Delhi were in all sorts of troubles as they were 6 down for just 89 on board. David Warner was the only hope for them but he also got out after scoring 40 off 36 balls. Finally Delhi were able to post 120/7 in 20 overs.
Chasing 121 to win, Adam Gilchrist once again failed to give KXIP a good start as he got out after scoring just 6 runs. Mandeep Singh and Luke Pomersback then took the team score to 50 before Luke got out after scoring 18 in 10 balls. Mandeep Singh also got out on the very next ball leaving KXIP at 50/3 in 4.5 overs. Manan Vohra also got out after scoring 8 and KXIP were reduced to 70/4 in 9.2 overs. Last match hero David Miller and David Hussey then took control of the situation and took the team inches away from victory when Hussey got out after scoring 20 off 21 balls. Needing 10 to win from 5 overs, Miller (34 off 39 balls) once again saw his team to a 5 wicket win.
Match 32 IPL 2013 – Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab Scorecard