April 08, 2017
VIVO IPL 2017 season 10 4th encounter between Kings XI Punjab v Rising Pune Supergiants at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore on April 8, 2017 at 4:00 pm. Host Kings XI Punjab with good all round batting and bowling performances knees down Pune by 6 wickets in their IPL opner match. GJ Maxwell played captain inning with 44 of 20 balls and he declared man of the for his excellent inning.
Debut skipper of Kings XI Punjab, GJ Maxwell won the toss and decided to field first. Pune Supergiants putting into bat first lost top 3 wickets on team score 49 and were in trouble. Skipper SPD Smith 26 and AM Rahane 19 runs were top scorers in top 3 batsmen. MS Dhoni also folowed therm scoring just 5 runs. BA Stokes played quick inning of 50 runs of 32 balls. In later overs Manoj Tiwary and DT Christian played some good cricket and put RPS in defending score of 163 runs. Christian went after Sandip Sharma in last over and made 17 runs of 8 balls. Tiwary also contributed well 40 of 23 balls.
Following target of 164 runs Kings XI Punjab lost M Vohra early scoring 14 runs. WP Saha also left the field scoring 13 runs. AR Patel promoted in order and played useful inning of 24 runs for Punjab. GJ Maxwell and DA Miller took the charge in hand and played superb inning for KXIP. Both played quick cricket and presented well deserve win over Pune by 6 wickets with 6 balls remainings. GJ Maxwell made 44 of 20 balls and DA Miller also contributed well 30 of 27 balls.
Player of the match - GJ Maxwell (Punjab)
Points - Kings XI Punjab 2, Rising Pune Supergiant 0
