IPL 8: Sunrisers Hyderabad breach Kings XI Punjab's fortress

MohaliSome disciplined bowling by the Sunrisers Hyderabad saw them register their third win of Indian Premier Leagues eighth edition beating Kings XI Punjab at Mohali by 20 runs on MondayChasing 151 to win Kings XI Punjab who dropped Virender Sehwag for Manan Vohra kept losing wickets at regular intervals as they failed to get their innings going and ended with 130 for 9 from their 20 oversBoult returned impressive figures of 319 in hisfourover spell while Bhuvneshwar Kumar chipped in with two wickets Wriddhiman Saha topscored for KXIP with a 33ball42Sunrisers Hyderabads David Warner plays a shot during an IPL match against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali on Monday PicPTIKings XI Punjab were jolted by the early loss of Manan Vohraand Shaun Marsh both batsmen playing on against Boult andKumar respectively to leave the visitors reeling at 13 for twoin the fourth overMurali Vijay after spending some time in the middle forhis 12 runs made his way back to the pavilion following aterrible mixup with David Miller 15 while going for whatseemed an unnecessary second runAround the halfway mark bottomplaced Punjab werestruggling at 61 for four requiring 90 runs from 60 balls toclimb up the ladderThe hosts were dealt another body blow when legspinnerKarn Sharma bagged the wicket of Miller who skied one to Boultat long off With the required run rate shooting up Millergot a leading edge while trying to hit Sharma down the groundSkipper George Bailey got out as his mishit found Sharmaat midoff after the batsman made 22 off 16 balls with thehelp of three boundariesAt the other end Saha was riding his luck as he got twolives While Ravi Bopara could not latch on to a difficult onein the 15th over Boult failed to judge one that went veryhigh in the next overSaha and Axar Patel managed a few big hits to bring theequation down to 35 from the last three overs However Boultbowled Patel at the start of 18th over before getting the bigwicket of Saha to dash KXIPs hopes of pulling off a win intheir first home game of the seasonEarlier opener Warner topscored witha 41ball 58 as Sunrisers Hyderabad managed a modest 150 forsixAshish Reddy smashed 22 off eight balls towards the endwith the help of two lastover sixes helping Sunrisers reachthe 150markSent into bat the Sunrisers Hyderabad were off to a poorstart with Shikhar Dhawan falling to pace spearhead MitchellJohnson with just 10 runs on the board after Sandeep Sharmabowled a maiden opening over at the Punjab Cricket AssociationstadiumKXIP skipper George Bailey opted to bowl firstas the pitch had a good amount of grass on it and his bowlersresponded by producing a disciplined showKXIP who dropped veteran Virender Sehwag after a run ofpoor scores in their first home game of the season ensuredthat the Sunrisers batsmen didnt get easy runs in thiscrucial encounter between the two bottomplaced teamsGlennMaxwell too missed out yet again on finding a place in theplaying XIYoung leftarm spinner Axar Patel was the best bowler forKXIP returning impressive figures of 225 while Johnsonpicked up two wickets for 39 runsApart from Warner Moises Henriques 30 and Naman Ojha28 were the other contributors for the visiting side whichstruggled to cut looseWarner found the fence 10 times and cleared it onceduring his stay in the middleThough Warner added 46 runs for the second wicket withhanum Vihari and Henriques had a 45run fourthwicket standwith they were not big enough to trouble the home team thathad the crowd behind themParttime bowler Murali Vijay bowled a tidy threeoverspell conceding just 16 runs and that made things worse forSunrisersAnureet Singh too was economical as he gave away 27runs in his full spell including five runs in the inningspenultimate over