In today’s match, 36th Match of IPLT20 2009, Kings XI Punjab pulled a thriller to keep their hopes high to make it to the Semi finals.

IPL 2009 – Match 36 – Deccan Chargers Vs Kings XI Punjab – Full Scorecard

Kings XI Punjab choose to bowl first winning the toss. Deccan Chargers scored 168runs losing 5wickets. Symonds was the star with the bat, scoring 60Runs in just 36balls. Venugopal Rao scored 35(25). Lee played his first match of this IPL and bowled well for his 1/24 in 4overs. Sreesanth and Chawla got a wicket each.

Jayawardene scored quickly to keep Kings XI Punjab in contest

Jayawardene scored quickly to keep Kings XI Punjab in contest

Kings XI Punjab chaced down 169 with 1 ball to spare, a thrilling end to the match. Kings XI Punjab started well with openers putting on 41 in just 4.3 overs. Both the batsman got out of the same over of Rohit Sharma, who is getting wickets at ease. Yuvraj and Sangakkara put on a partnership and scored at good rate. But both of them got out just like the openers in a span of 3 balls, just before strategic break. All of a sudded Deccan Chargers were back in the game. The score was 86/4. Jayawardene played really really well yet again and scored quick runs and got himself runout when the score was 149. He scored 43runs in 28balls at a strike rate of 153.57. At this stage Kings XI Punjab needed 20 runs in 13 balls. Chawla and Lee kept themselves cool and reached the target with a ball to spare.

Awaiting for the next game…. Clash of TITANS !!!

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