SRH SKIPPER DAVID WARNER WON A TOSS AND OPTED TO BOWL.
Mandeep, who was opening the batting In a place Mayank Agarwal, and KL Rahul took KXIP to 37 in the initial five overs before Sandeep Sharma got Mandeep out for 17.
Chris Gayle creamed two fours and a six in the initial eight balls he confronted. Yet, from subsequently SRH made a noteworthy showing to keep the things tight and it got them two major wickets on two progressive conveyances.
While Jason Holder had Gayle gotten at the long-off in the tenth over, Rashid Khan's wrong'un did KL Rahul in on the principal chunk of the eleventh over. Sandeep Sharma at that point picked his second wicket as he excused Glenn Maxwell in the fourteenth over before Rashid had Deepak Hooda baffled in the following over.
KXIP, with five wickets down, moved past hundred in the seventeenth over, however lost another wicket as Holder's more slow conveyance improved of Chris Jordan.
Nicholas Pooran, who scored an unbeaten 32, however hauled his side to 126/7.
AS INNING STARTS,SRH were quick off the blocks as David Warner got going straightway. The SRH skipper cranked two sixes in the first two overs bowled by Mohammad Shami and Arshdeep Singh.
In the next two overs, Jonny Bairstow hit two fours before he and Warner teamed up to hit four fours in the fifth and sixth over to take SRH past fifty at the end of the powerplay.
However, KXIP struck twice in quick succession through the leg-spinners as SRH lost both their openers. While Ravi Bishnoi had Warner caught behind the stumps by KL Rahul, Murugan Ashwin dismissed Bairstow.
For the ninth over, KXIP brought Shami back into the attack to bowl his final over and he struck as Abdul Samad was caught at mid-off by a leaping Chris Jordan.
While Manish Pandey and Vijay Shankar, who had powered SRH to win in their last game against Rajasthan Royals, added 33 runs, the partnership was broken after J Suchith, on the field as a substitute for Shami, ran towards his right and took a stunning catch near the ropes to get Manish out in the 17th over.
Vijay Shankar got hit on the helmet in the 18th over by a Nicholas Pooran throw who was trying to run-out the SRH all-rounder. While Shankar seemed fine to bat, he got out on the next delivery as Arshdeep Singh got his first wicket.
SRH were 110/5 after the 18th over and needed 17 runs in the last two overs to cross the finish line.
After conceding 2 on the first 2 balls of the penultimate over, Jordan got two wickets on two successive deliveries. While Holder was caught by Mandeep in the covers, Rashid got out after Pooran took a catch in the deep.
SRH needed 14 runs in the final over but Arshdeep conceded not more than 2 runs to pick two wickets before Bishnoi ran-out Khaleel Ahmed on the penultimate delivery as KXIP completed their fourth win on the bounce to move to 10 points in the standings.
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