KKR, on the other hand, remained second despite the defeat with 16 points from 13 outings. The other is just hanging by the skin of its teeth and hoping to enter the last four. With 250 runs in 12 matches, Rohit will be looking to follow Suresh Raina's feat of scoring 300+ runs in every IPL season. So, the team and their fans are expecting the last home game win in this league. Off-spinner Rahul Tewatia then decimated the Kolkata batting by scalping inform captain Gautam Gambhir and leading run scorer Robin Uthappa in quick succession.
From there the stage was set for Kolkata's big-hitting openers Sunil Narine and Chris Lynn to ignite their run chase, and ignite it they did.
The batsman missed it and it was easy for the keeper. Medium-pacer Mohit Sharma also took two wickets for 24.
Punjab skipper Glenn Maxwell scored 44 off just 25 balls to guide the team to 167 runs after a slow start.
As their do or die run to get into the top four continues, the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) have a chance to get the better of the Mumbai Indians (MI) who are coming on the back of one of their poorer performances with the bat this season.
Kings XI Punjab's Herculean task to carry themselves through all the way to the play-offs has become tougher as Glenn Maxwell's boys travel south to face happily-qualified Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium, tonight.
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After Martin Guptill had fallen to Pradeep Sangwan in the first over, Amla put on 125 for the second wicket with Shaun Marsh (58) and continued to prosper after the Australian departed.
Narine and Lynn came out to open the innings for KKR and they seemed in a hurry to finish off things for KKR as boundaries were scored from both the ends by the batsman but soon Mohit Sharma got the break and at the end of the power play KKR were 61/1. In his next five innings, he has hit 196 runs off 134 balls with just one single-digit score.
Not in contention for the playoffs, Lions were depleted without global recruits Andrew Tye, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo and Jason Roy (on national duty), and played only three against Kings XI - Dwayne Smith, Aaron Finch and James Faulkner.
Mumbai Indians were outclassed by Sunrisers Hyderabad in their last game but they have been in rampaging form at home.
Marsh fell to a gem of a delivery off Chris Woakes. But the same over, Maxwell was sent packing with Woakes taking a superb catch near the boundary running from long-off. Lynn was run out for a 52-ball knock of 84 with three sixes and eight boundaries.
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