Sunday, April 17, 2011

Match-9:Kings beat Superkings

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Paul Valthaty blasted an excellant century to guide the Kings XI Punjab to a magnificent six-wicket victory over the IPL-3 champions, the Chennai Super Kings.He hit 19 fours and two sixes in his match-winning knock of 120 not out in just 63 balls to help the Kings XI Punjab to achieve the big total of 189. Tim Southee, Albie Morkel and Suraj Randiv all picked up a wicket apiece.

Earlier, Kings XI made an excellent start to the match, stunning the champions when Praveen Kumar removed Anirudha Srikkanth and Suresh Raina for golden ducks with the first two balls of the match. Chennai reached the score of 188, with the help of  a century partnership between Murali Vijay, who made 74 in 43 balls and Subramaniam Badrinath, who struck 66 not out in 56 balls. Mahendra Singh Dhoni made an important 43 in 20 balls in the later stage of the inning,hitting four fours and two sixes .

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