Rain takes The Kings XI home

Jaywardane plays it fine

Mahela Jayawardene's six off the final ball earned the Kings XI Punjab a six-run victory over the Delhi Daredevils in a rain-affected Indian Premier League match on Saturday.

The Sri Lankan pulled a long hop high over deep mid-wicket from the last ball to take his side to 94 for three after the Duckworth-Lewis method reduced the target to 89.
Luke Pomersbach (25 not out) helped maintain the momentum at the other end, launching Maharoof and Bajat Bhatia for maximums in back-to-back overs.

Electing to bat, Daredevils got a mere 11 overs as rain halted play twice. The game resumed and Daredevils managed 118, getting just three runs in the final over by James Hopes. The Punjab team did well to restrict the revised target to 123 even as Sehwag remained unbeaten on 51 off 26 balls with two fours and five sixes.

The scores:

Delhi Daredevils: G. Gambhir b Powar 40, V. Sehwag (not out) 51, S. Dhawan c Chawla b Powar 8, T. Dilshan c Pomersbach b Hopes 8, F. Maharoof c Powar b Hopes 0, S. Malik (not out) 1; Extras (lb-2, w-7, nb-1): 10; Total (for four wkts. in 11 overs): 118.

Fall of wickets: 1-75, 2-104, 3-115, 4-116.

Kings XI Punjab bowling: Sreesanth 3-0-33-0, Pathan 2-0-13-0, V.R.V. Singh 2-0-33-0, Powar 2-0-22-2, Chawla 1-0-13-0, Hopes 1-0-2-2.

Kings XI Punjab: S. Marsh c Dhawan b Sangwan 2, J. Hopes c Malik b Mishra 4, Yuvraj c Maharoof b McGrath 23, M. Jayawardene (not out) 36, L. Pomersbach (not out) 25; Extras (lb-2, w-2): 4. Total (for three wkts. in eight overs): 94.

Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-30, 3-31.

Delhi Daredevils bowling: McGrath 2-0-18-1, Sangwan 1-0-12-1, Mishra 2-0-21-1, Sehwag 1-0-22-0, Maharoof 1-0-11-0, Bhatia 1-0-8-0.

(Kings XI Punjab win by six runs (D/L method)