Match 59 IPL 2013 – Kings XI Punjab vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
Date – Sat May 11
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Toss – Kings XI Punjab elected to field first
Result – Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 30 runs

Today in the 59th match of IPL Season 6, Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to field first. Parthiv Patel and Shikhar Dhawan opened the innings for Sunrisers and added 28 runs in 4.1 overs before Dhawan got out. Hanuma Vihari also fell cheaply for 5 leaving Sunrisers at 33/2 in 5.2 overs. Parthiv Patel stood firm on one end though three wickets fell in the span of 6 balls. From 33/2 Sunrisers slipped to 52/5 in 8.4 overs. Patel completed his half century and scored 61 before getting run out and a quickfire 22 by Karan Sharma and a cameo of 32 by Thisara Perera helped Sunrisers post a total of 150/7 in 20 overs.

Chasing 151 to win, KXIP lost Mandeep Singh in the very first over when the score was just 1. Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh then added 44 runs before Marsh got out after scoring 18 of 20 balls. Some tight bowling by Sunrisers never allowed KXIP batsmen to free their arms and with the pressure on increasing run rate, the batting order started to crumble. KXIP were reduced to 51/4 in 9.4 overs. Hopes were raised for KXIP when Luke Pomersbach and Rajagopal Sathish started to get going as the duo added 51 runs in 7.1 overs and took the score to 102. The match looked to be poised for an interesting finish but Sunrisers bounced back with the wicket of Rajagopal Sathish. With his fall, the downfall started for KXIP and from 102/5 in 16.5 overs, KXIP could manage to score just 18 runs in last 3.1 over and thus managed to score 120/9 in 20 overs thereby loosing the match by 30 runs.

Match 59 IPL 2013 – Kings XI Punjab vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Scorecard