Mumbai Indians won the match by eight wickets, thus climbing up the points table to share the fourth spot with Team Jaipur. Yuvraj Singh’s team, on the other hand, had only themselves to blame for a poor display batting first, going down to the sixth spot in the rankings.

Dwayne Bravo ensured the Mumbai Indians’ winning run continued and kept alive their hopes. he took his team an eight-wicket win. Bravo’s successive sixes off Sreesanth had Yuvraj looking away in anger.

Scoreboard

Kings XI Punjab

S Sohal run out (Tendulkar) 43 (23b, 5×4, 3×6), S Katich c Harbhajan Singh b Kulkarni 0 (2b), I Pathan run out (Bravo) 0 (3b), K Sangakkara b Harbhajan Singh 8 (19b), Yuvraj Singh c Bravo b Duminy 12 (18b, 2×4), W Mota c Harbhajan Singh b Duminy 4 (7b), A Pomersbach b Rahane 5 (7b), K Goel not out 20 (21b, 2×4), B Lee c Raje b Malinga 8 (12b, 1×4), P Chawla run out (Takawale) 0, S Sreesanth not out 1 (10b)

Extras: (b 3, lb 1, w 12, nb 2) 18

Total: (for 9 wkts; 20 overs) 119

Fall of wkts: 1-5, 2-22, 3-50, 4-67, 5-79, 6-79, 7-89, 8-106, 9-112;

Bowling: L Malinga 4-0-32-1 (1nb, 6w), D Kulkarni 3-0-24-1, D Bravo 2-0-17-0 (1nb, 1w), R Raje 1-0-10-0 (1w), H Singh 4-0-9-1, JP Duminy 4-0-15-2, A Rahane 1-0-5-1, S Jayasuriya 1-0-3-0

Mumbai Indians

S Jayasuriya c Mota b Lee 4 (7b, 1×4), D Bravo not out 70 (59b, 7×4, 3×6), A Rahane lbw b Chawla 1 (5b), S Tendulkar not out 41 (29b, 4×4, 1×6).

Extras: (w-4, nb-2) 8

Total: (for 2 wkts in 16.2 ovs) 122

Fall of wkts: 1-5, 2-40.

Bowling: B Lee 4-0-25-1, I Pathan 3.2-1-14-0, S Sreesanth 1-0-21-0, P Chawla 4-0-32-1, Y Singh 2-0-14-0, K Goel 2-0-16-0