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1 run
very full, just outside off, and it's thumped through cover with plenty of bottom hand
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1 run
nudged into a gap on the off side, and there's space for a quick single
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chopped hard into the covers, where a diving stop saves runs
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1 run
was this an edge? Yes! This is a delightful delivery from Ashwin, gripping and spinning across de Villiers, who pokes at it and sends an edge flying past the keeper. Slip would have gobbled it up, and that's the hundred
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2 runs
nicely placed by Stoinis, into the acres of space on the leg side with midwicket on the fence. In fact, there's even time enough for them to rush back for a second
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Viljoen keeps things tight on off stump, Stoinis coming half forward to defend
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1 run
dug in short, but misdirected down the leg side. The punishment isn't too severe though, de Villiers pulling to the fielder at deep backward square
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1 leg bye
Stoinis misses a glance at a 142km/h delivery, but they find a single into the leg side off his pad
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1 run
fuller, straighter, and it's flicked to Gayle at midwicket, eliciting a cheer from the crowd
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no run
another cutter, the speedo nudging towards 130km/h, and AB pokes at it from the crease
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1 run
offbreak at 95km/h, AB nudging with the spin and square of midwicket for one more
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1 run
Stoinis works a flat dart from Ashwin into the leg side, long on keeping them to one
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1 run
chopped down through gully, and they pinch a single as short third man scoots around
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1 run
Ashwin offers some width, Stoinis slashes a single to the sweeper
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a watchful push finds extra cover
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1 run
AB plucks the ball off an off stump line, glancing into the leg side for a single
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1 run
AB finds a gap on the off side, and keeps the strike
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1 run
legbreak, and it's nudged out to the cover sweeper
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no run
Stoinis telegraphs his intentions to play a lap-sweep, but Ashwin adjusts to beat the stroke and hit him on the pad
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1 run
tucked straight of midwicket, just the one
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1 run
Stoinis follows AB's lead, helping himself to a single to long off
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1 run
looped up on off stump, AB driving down to long off for a single
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1 run
chopped out to the sweeper once again, and AB keeps the strike
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1 run
another push into the covers, but this one is placed well enough for a quick single
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no run
Ashwin pulls his length back just a shade, Stoinis pressing to cover
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flicked off the toes, but straight to short midwicket
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full, straight, and Stoinis presents the full face of the bat to push the ball cautiously back at the bowler
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1 run
pushed out through the gap at cover point, just the one
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OUT
tapped tamely to cover! Akshdeep was much too early into this push to cover as Viljoen rolled his fingers over a 134km/h cutter. The ball ballooned off the bat and presented Mandeep with the very simplest of chances
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no run
dug in short and outside off by Viljoen, Akshdeep failing to lay any bat on his attempted pull
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1 run
AB lets his bottom hand do the work, digging an attempted yorker out just wide of mid off
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1 run
Akshdeep steps into a crunchy little drive, picking out the cover sweeper
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1 run
AB waits and waits and chops down at the last moment to collect a single to third man
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1 run
worked off a length and into the leg side
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1 run
worked into the leg side, and into space for a single
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no run
beaten on the outside edge! Akshdeep plays for turn and the ball scoots just past his outside edge
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no run
looped down with precious little flight, and tight on off stump to draw hurried defence from the new bat
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OUT
bowled him! Moeen stayed deep in the crease, waiting and playing for orthodox turn, but the ball rushes on to him with the arm, skidding through a little low and slamming into the stumps. And that's that for Moeen and IPL 2019 - he's back to England now
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1 run
Ashwin offers up a hint of width, but there's protection at cover sweeper
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quick, skidding on outside off, and AB tucks it back to the bowler
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no run
chopped down to point, where the fielder is in place
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legbreak at 94km/h, and it's pressed defensively to cover
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googly this time, and it's not picked, zipping past the outside edge
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FOUR runs
streaky start from Moeen, flashing outside off and sending an edge bouncing down to the third man boundary
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OUT
vital breakthrough! Parthiv can barely drag himself from the crease. He plays across the line at a floaty googly, and a leading edge loops very tamely to his captain at cover. Parthiv looks suspiciously at the pitch as he trudges off, but this dismissal was down to good bowling and a loose stroke
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1 run
legbreak, and it's slapped out to the cover sweeper to turn the strike over
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no run
shorter, outside off, and it's dabbed down to gully
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SIX runs
fetched over cow corner! Parthiv is going like a freight train. Shami aimed this one straighter, but the batsman was expecting it and clubbed confidently up and over the legside field. This is a cracker of a pitch
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FOUR runs
width again! And it's a slower one, too. He spots it early, plants his right foot, and doesn't bother keeping it down as he scythes over cover
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no run
smeared across the line, but he loses his shape over-hitting it and the ball goes nowhere
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FOUR runs
sliced behind point this time! Shami lets slip with a full toss outside off, Parthiv slicing it deliberately fine to get it behind point - albeit aerially - for another boundary. He's inquisitive about a possible no-ball, but it's legitimate
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FOUR runs
up and over mid off! Parthiv swings from a solid base at the crease, punting a full ball cleanly over mid off
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1 run
and he concludes the over with a yorker, right up at his toes, that's dug out through backward point
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no run
Rajpoot puts a little more vim into this one, pulling his length back to beat Parthiv's edge as he has a little fiddle at a rising delivery outside off
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SIX runs
slammed down the ground! Parthiv's eyes light up as he picks a full slower ball out of the hand, clearing his front leg and cracking it 77 metres straight back over his head to bring up the fifty
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3 runs
misfield, and it brings runs! Two fielders converged on de Villiers' drive to cover, but neither could stop it. The ball is eventually hunted down near the rope
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FOUR runs
pulled by de Villiers, though it's the line rather than the length that invited the shot. It really wasn't all that short, but the ball was drifting towards his legs and de Villiers threads the gap between midwicket and mid on with a firm pull
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no run
on a length, just outside off, and de Villiers pushes on the up to cover
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1 run
Shami continues to probe outside off, de Villiers poking at one that snakes in to him, an inside edge bouncing off his pads and into space for a run
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1 run
edged, but it's wide of slip and bounces harmlessly down to third man. Shami's found some wobble, and a testing length
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1 run
short, and rising outside off at just over 140km/h. De Villiers is slightly rushed into a pull, but rolls his wrists on the shot to control it and collect a single
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no run
fuller, wider and de Villiers won't be tempted into anything injudicious outside off just yet
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no run
and he's almost done first ball! Shami tests AB on an offstump line with one that nips in to him, the ball coming off the inside half of the bat and bouncing just past the stumps
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OUT
and gets his man! A full house has been silenced as Kohli slices a drive uppishly into the covers, where this time the fielder - Mandeep - makes no mistake
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no run
nice change-up, a slower ball at 112km/h, and it has the beating of a Parthiv drive
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and he switches back around the stumps for the left-hander, pitching it right up to him, Parthiv digging it out through gully
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1 run
Rajpoot pulls his length back a shade, Kohli hopping into a nurdle to leg
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1 run
a full, angled delivery ricochets off the inside edge and crashes into the stumps, and they pinch a single as it rolls to fine leg
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(no ball)
another huge swipe from Parthiv, another play-and-miss, but it's also another no ball. Try again
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massive swooshing drive from the batsman outside off, and he hits only fresh air. But it's a no-ball! Free hit coming up
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FOUR runs
picked up over deep backward square! The line, headed towards leg stump, is helpful, and Parthiv helps it on its way with a little flourish, lifting his right leg in the air
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no run
Parthiv sets himself for a mow into the leg side, but he's not got the room he's looking for and the ball is mis-timed to mid on
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1 leg bye
Parthiv misses a swat into the leg side, but the ball loops up off his hip and there's room enough for a quick single
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1 wide
Shami's trying not to give him any width, but he's sent his line too far the other way and this one scoots down the leg side
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FOUR runs
Shami keeps his line straight to Parthiv, but it's too straight and it's neatly clipped down to fine leg for the third four of the over
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1 run
swatted out through cover point again, but a man's been moved out into the deep in that position as damage control
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FOUR runs
and again! There was a hint of venom in the last stroke from Kohli, but this one is all class as he leans into a cover drive, on the up, and threads the gap between cover and mid off
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FOUR runs
and this will sting after that missed chance! Shami adjusts his line, just outside off, but Kohli meets the ball with a scything slap that sends the ball skidding through cover point. That scorched across the outfield
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dropped at midwicket! That was the break Kings XI needed, but Hardus has fluffed a simple chance at midwicket inside the circle. Kohli clipped a full one off the pads, but uppishly and almost straight to him. But it was straight in, and straight out
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1 run
nudges a length ball on off stump to the right of midwicket
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2 runs
drills it to the left of point, leaning forward to the good length ball outside off, making sure his balance is going into the shot so he can control it better
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1 leg bye
corrects his line now, targeting middle and leg, Parthiv goes for the flick, misses the shot and so has to settle for a leg bye
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FOUR runs
hammers it down the ground now! Licence to thrill! Or at least licence to swat balls in the slot outside off stump back over mid-off's head
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FOUR runs
a hint of width - only a hint - and Parthiv lashes it behind point with some gusto. The front-foot, on-the-up square drive in all its glory
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no run
full and outside off, slices it to cover
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1 run
full on off stump, and there's a little bit of drama here but the winning run is eventually taken. Drives it powerfully towards mid-on, except it ends up hitting the non-striker's right foot as he jumps up to evade the ball. The ball ricochets towards the cover fielder, who sprints in, picks up, and underarms a throw a...
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bouncer over off stump, and Rayudu's fallen with the scores tied! Opens up and looks to pull, but it's a hard one to drag from over his right shoulder, and he ends up miscuing it high, offers a simple catch to Vijay Shankar at mid-off. Vijay Shankar catching Rayudu's just what this match needed, I suppose!
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1 run
shuffles down the pitch, drives this full one outside off firmly to mid-off, who's stationed deep enough to permit a straightforward single
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wow, that's another brilliant stop at the boundary from Manish Pandey. Or is it? Jumped down the pitch and turned this ball into a full-toss on the legs. Flicked it and timed it very well, well enough to clear the boundary to the right of deep midwicket. But Pandey, running to his right and jumping past the rope, pulls...
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1 run
full, angling into leg stump, flicked to short fine leg. If he'd placed that better he might have got four
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no run
slower bouncer angling in towards off stump. Jadhav gets into a tangle as he looks to make room and ramp it over the keeper. Can't connect
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1 run
length ball, another slower cutter, on off stump. Makes room and punches to deep point
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1 leg bye
back of a length, angling in towards Jadhav's hip, cramping him for room. Plays an awkward pull-flick and misses, gets a leg bye off his thigh pad
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1 run
wide of the crease, bowls this shortish cutter outside off. Makes room and slaps to deep point
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1 run
angles into the pads now and he clips it to long leg
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no run
offcutter, back of a length, really digs it into the pitch outside off and gets it to rise steeply. Jadhav is half-forward, looking to steer it behind point, and he aborts his shot as the ball climbs at him
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no run
looks to step out and make room and Bhuvneshwar cramps him again, angling a shortish offcutter towards leg stump. Flat-bats it back to the bowler
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1 run
full, angling into leg stump. Saw Jadhav shaping to make room. Pushed to the left of cover
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1 leg bye
jumps out of his crease and Bhuvneshwar tucks him up with a slower short one at his hip. Looks to flick, only manages a bit of thigh pad into the leg side
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1 run
back of a length outside off, chopped away to the left of deep point
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