Chawla scored 4 of the first ball of a short ball on the leg stump. He pulled it of the glove to the fine leg boundary! Chawla scored single of the next delivery to give strike to Lee. Lee swung and missed the slower ball. Fourth ball was two to long off and 5th ball went to mid on for the winning runs.
With last 3 overs requiring 29, Jayawardene ran himself out going for the second in Ojha's over. He also sustained hamstring injury and is doubtful for the next match on 12th against Mumbai Indians. He scored a boundary of the 2nd ball which brought down the equation to 19 off 2 overs.
Harris bowled the first three ball well to restrict with 3 runs, but Lee struck a powerful six over long off in the fourth ball. Singles were scored of the last 2 balls.
Jayawardene was given the man of the match for his responsible and winning knock of 43 in 28 balls which had a four and 3 sixes.
Put into bat, DC had a decent start adding 31 by the openers. Gilchrist, going against Sreesanth, hit a six in the first ball and tried to hit another, but it ended in the hands of Powar at mid on. Gibbs who fell for a duck in the previous game, scored 13 in this match. Suman and Sharma fell soon and put DC in the back seat. Sharma fell after the strategic break caught behind of Lee.
Symonds playing his first after return from Pakistan tour, gave a boost to DC. Though he struggled to score runs in the innings, he struk sixes and fours to DC end with 168. Symonds both Venugopal added 95 for the 5th wicket which fell in the last ball of the innings.
Symonds struck 4 sixes and 2 fours in his innings including 2 of Sreesanth. DC went from 73 in 10 overs to 168, adding 95. Sreesanth's over changed the match as he went for 20 runs including 2 sixes and a four from Symonds.
Playing his first match, he was 60 not out in 36 balls. Venugopal scored 32 in 25 balls.
The start was good for KXI. They were going at 10 runs per over at the end of 4th over. Sohal scored 30 out of the 40 on the board. The break-through came from Rohit Sharma, who picked a hat-trick in the previous game. He picked both the openers in his first over, both of them caught by Venugopal.
Yuvaraj and Sangakkara played slowly and built the innings. The momentum came from Symonds over as Yuvaraj hit a six of the first ball. Sangakkara hit another six in the 5h ball and a four off a rebowled wide ball.
The blow came in the 10th over when both the settled batsmen fell in the same over for poor shot selection. Sangakkara moving across to play over short fine leg missed the ball and was bowled. In the last ball of the 10th over, Yuvaraj going for a swing over mid wicket, took the top edge and went high in the air to give a catch to Gilly. Kings XI required 82 from the last 10 overs.
Jayawardene took the responsibility on his shoulders as he played singles and twos in the next four overs. In the 15th over, Irfan Pathan fell to Suman. Last 5 overs needed 50. Ojha bowled a tight over giving 5 runs.
Mota was run out going for the 2nd run. Jayawardene hit to long on but hesitated for the 2nd. By the time, Mota came down the track and could not go back on time.
To compensate for the wicket, Jayawardene hit 2 sixes and reduced the target to 29 off 18 balls. The match could have gone either way, but Kings XI held the nerve to get the two crucial winning points.
Match # 36
Date: Saturday May 9, 2009
Teams: Kings XI Punjab v. Deccan Chargers
Captains: Yuvaraj and Gilchrist
Toss: KXI, decided to field
Venue: De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Result: KXI won by 4 wickets with 1 ball remaining
Points: KXI 2; DC 0
Man of the Match: M Jayawardene off KXI
Deccan Chargers Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Gilchrist | c Powar b Sreesanth | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 |
| Gibbs | c Jayawardene b Chawla | 13 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| T Suman | c Jayawardene b Mota | 27 | 17 | 1 | 2 |
| R Sharma | c Sangakkara b Lee | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| A symonds | Not Out | 60 | 36 | 2 | 4 |
| Venugopal | Run Out (Katich/Sangakkara) | 32 | 25 | 1 | 2 |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 3, nb 2) | 7 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 5 wkts in 20 overs | 168 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-31 (Gilchrist, 3.4 ov), 2-54 (Gibbs, 6.3 ov), 3-70 (Suman, 9.2 ov), 4-73 (Sharma, 10.4 ov), 5-168 (Venugopal Rao, 19.6 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| B Lee | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 |
| I Pathan | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0 |
| Sreesanth | 4 | 0 | 37 | 1 |
| Chawla | 3 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
| Mota | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
| Yuvaraj | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
Kings XI Punjab Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Sohal | c Venugopal b R Sharma | 30 | 17 | 4 | 1 |
| Katich | c Venugopal b R Sharma | 9 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| Sangakkara | b Shoaib | 25 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| Yuvaraj | c Gilchrist b Shoaib | 18 | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| M Jayawardene | Run Out (R Teja/Gilchrist) | 43 | 28 | 1 | 3 |
| I Pathan | c Shoaib b Suman | 10 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| Mota | Run Out (Gibbs/Gilchrist) | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| B Lee | Not Out | 14 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Chawla | Not Out | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 3) | 9 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 7 wkts in 19.5 overs | 169 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-41 (Sohal, 4.3 ov), 2-42 (Katich, 4.5 ov), 3-85 (Sangakkara, 9.4 ov), 4-86 (Yuvraj Singh, 9.6 ov), 5-116 (Pathan, 14.2 ov), 6-127 (Mota, 16.2 ov), 7-149 (Jayawardene, 17.5 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Harris | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| RP Singh | 2.5 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| Shoaib | 3 | 0 | 25 | 2 |
| R Sharma | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
| Venugopal | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| T Suman | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 |
| A Symonds | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| Ojha | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
