Tye, Finch back Gayle in Kings’ IPL win

The “Universe Boss” Gayle exploited the best bowling line-up in the IPL 2018 to score 104 runs off 63 balls hitting 1 four and 11 huge sixes. Getting close to the delivery before teeing off helped him negate the googlies.

On Sunday, Gayle lined-up CSK’s medium-pacers, but adopted a different approach against a formidable Sunrisers attack.

As usual, the bowing hopes will be pinned on Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddhart Kaul and others, as the 2016 champions eye another top-class performance. Hence in today’s match, it is predicted that Kings XI Punjab will win this match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. When come to bowling side they were looking good but not as like SRH.

When Chris Gayle holds centrestage, others are inadvertently left to play supporting roles.

His innings contained 11 sixes and one four and he was particularly severe on Rashid Khan, clubbing six sixes off him – including four in the 14th over. Among all his 21 hundreds, it was Gayle third-lowest dot-ball count. Because of them only SRH won all matches by means of wickets. But even Rashid bore the brunt of Gayle fury as the self proclaimed universal boss smashed four consecutive sixes against the leggie. That has cost the team a few valuable runs. Also, KL Rahul is in red-hot form, which has also been a contributing factor in the side’s turn of fortunes. Two overs later, Tye dismissed Deepak Hooda (5).

The West Indies batsman reached his 50 off 39 balls.

“This hundred is dedicated to my daughter – it’s her birthday tomorrow”. KXIP have a strong batting line-up with likes of KL Rahul, Chris Gayle and Karun Nair, who have performed well till now.

Shikhar Dhawan was set to be a key part of Hyderabad’s run chase but he departed first ball as he was forced to retire. In OVERS 1.5 Mohit Sharma struck early, Wriddhiman Saha gone for 6 here SRH 14/1, in chase of 194.In OVERS 2, 16 RUNS came A wicket gone but Mohit Sharma also conceded 16 runs in it. Following a cautious power-play, that produced 49 runs, the pace slackened with the next five overs resulting in two dismissals and an addition of 37 runs.

Sunrisers, it is fair to say, have fielded themselves to victory in each of the three games as their fielders have picked up some outstanding catches as well as saved some valuable runs for the team.