Kings XI Punjab big beaten Mumbai Indians

Kings XI Punjab 163 for 8 (Marsh 43, Karthik 31, Munaf 5-21) beat Mumbai Indians 87 (Bhatt 4-22)

Mumbai Indians' inspiring run in the IPL was bring to a impolite halt by the Kings XI Punjab, who finished an forceful 76-run win in Mohali.

Mumbai had won six out of their seven preceding games, but were bundle out for 87 in 12.5 overs on Tuesday chasing 163.

Praveen Kumar's two for 19 and Bhargav Bhatt's four for 22 engineered the give way that saw six batsmen out for single figures.

Earlier, Shaun Marsh (43 off 34) and Dinesh Karthik (31) led Punjab's batting, but met fierce confrontation late on from Mumbai paceman Munaf Patel's figures of five for 21.

Despite charming the toss, Mumbai unsuccessful to capitalise on Patel's removal from office of Paul Valthaty (14) as Marsh and Adam Gilchrist (28) took Punjab to a healthy 86 in 10 overs.

Following Gilchrist's exit, Marsh sustained his inspiring strokeplay next to Karthik, and it needed an excellent catch from Kieron Pollard to send the Australian back.

Patel claim his third in the same over by dispatch David Hussey, as a outbreak of late wickets destined Punjab could only manage 20 off the last three overs.

Mumbai's batting, though, got off to a bad start as they were three down in 4.1 overs, with Kumar grab the key scalp of Sachin Tendulkar (six).

It only got not as good as as Andrew Symonds (eight) was run out in a mix-up with Ambati Rayudu (13), who then holed out to mid-on before Ryan Harris snap up Tirumalasetti Suman (four).

It prompted some desperate yet useless beating but Bhatt came to the fore to shut Mumbai out, first by bowling Harbhajan Singh (12), and rounding the tail up in the 13th over, remove Pollard (17), Dhawal Kulkarni (two), and Patel (nought).

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