Kings XI Punjab canter to fifth win

Kings XI Punjab won their fifth consecutive game outplaying the Bangalore Royal Challengers with both bat and ball. Put in to bat on a seaming wicket, the Bangalore Royal Challengers offered meek resistance with their Captain Rahul Dravid playing a lone hand with a gritty 66 run knock.

The importance of Dravid's knock in his teams total of 126 is exemplified when one looks at the sorry scorecard of the Challengers which had five batsmen out for ducks and only two other batsmen crossing over to double figures.

Both the seamers in the Kings XI Punjab played their part, with Sreesanth picking up the opener Jaffer and then Cameroon White, while Irfan picked up the important wicket of the Indian under-19 captain Virat Kohli. Piyush Chawla then accounted for the likes of Misbah Ul Haq, Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan to restrict the Bangalore Royal Challengers to a paltry 126. Their fifth consecutive victory moves the Kings XI Punjab into the second position in the league table.



Orange Cap Standings



With Yuvraj Singh not troubling the scorers much today, the Orange Cap standing remained the same. Delhi Daredevils Captain and opening batsmen Virender Sehwag held on to the prestigious "Orange Cap" as the highest cumulative runscorer in the League with a total of 247 runs. Rohit Sharma of the Deccan Chargers was second with a cumulative total to 235 runs. Sehwag’s compatriot and opening bat Gautam Gambhir also retained his third position with a cumulative total of 225 runs.