Published: May 28, 2014, 04:16 PM (IST)
Edited: May 28, 2014, 04:16 PM (IST)
May 28, 2014
Akshar Patel bowled the third over for Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014 Qualifier 1. Patel started well, with a leg bye to start with. Both Robin Uthappa and Manish Pandey were looking to consolidate after the early loss of Gautam Gambhir, with KKR getting the first boundary of the match only off the final ball of the third over.
Mitchell Johnson came on to bowl the second over of the match. After bowling a very good late-swinging delivery to Gambhir first ball, Johnson pitched one short and had Gambhir pull straight to George Bailey at short midwicket. Manish Pandey was the new man in for KKR, and started off with a single right away. Johnson was cranking up the pace, and looked like taking a wicket at any moment.
Parvinder Awana started proceedings by bowling the first ball of the Qualifier to Robin Uthappa. Awana bowled a very tight first over. He conceded merely two runs off the first over, as Robin Uthappa was unable to work the ball away. Awana held his nerve and didn’t bowl any loose balls to start with.
Earlier, George Bailey won the toss and elected to field first. Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) went in with the same team. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) made just the one change, as leg-spinner Piyush Chawla came in to the side at the expense of R Vinay Kumar. Glenn Maxwell, sporting a clean-shaven look, said that KXIP were only looking at going match-by-match at this point.
