Inspired batting from skipper Glenn Maxwell ensured that last season's wooden spooners, Kings XI Punjab, started their 2017 IPL campaign with a win over Rising Pune Supergiant. Maxwell scored an impressive 44* off just 20 balls as Punjab easily chased down the 164-run target set up by Pune.
Brief scores: Rising Pune Supergiant 163/6 ( Ben Stokes 50, Manoj Tiwary 40*; Sandeep Sharma 2/33, Swapnil Singh 1/14) lost to Kings XI Punjab 164/4 (Glenn Maxwell 44*, David Miller 30*; Imran Tahir 2/29, Ashok Dinda 1/26) by 6 wickets.
Here are the best tweets from the game:
It's unfortunate the most anticipated matchup didn't occur!
Kids: today is rps vs kxip
โ Pranay Prakash (@EncountersSam)
Men: today is smith vs maxwell
Ultra legends: today is lord ishant sharma vs lord ashok dinda ๐๐
Halftime talks!
Smith to Dinda:Its 64 to defend for u in 4 overs and other bowlers will defend 100 in 16.
โ Master Dinda (@Troll_more)
Dinda-Tough but yes I will try.๐
You are not the only one mate!
Don't fancy Dinda trying to close this chase out ๐๐๐
โ Lee Bravado (@LeeBravado)
Dinda : 3 - 26 - 1 ๐๐
โ Sadhu Maharaj (@SadhuMaharaj16)
Ok who ever it is take off ur mask !!
And to think Ishant Sharma wanted 2 crores!
Fun fact: Imran Tahir has never been brought in an auction. Was Coulter-Nile's replacement in '14 (DD), and now Marsh's for RPS.
โ Darshan Senthil (@dagiroxforever7)
He might do that even without picking a wicket
If picks either of the batsman ( or ) he can run out the ground.. the match is done
โ ๐ฅเฎเฎพเฎฉเฎเฏเฎเฏเฎคเฏเฎคเฏ๐ฅ (@Gnanakuthu)
All they need is to win the toss then
8- have now lost all the 8 matches when they've batted 1st in the . Jolted!
โ Aditya Warty (@adityawarty)
True that!
watching and in the crease is like watching highlights of the session.
โ Minura G. Jinadasa (@MinuraGJinadasa)
two power hitters.
only boundaries.
Well, this was expected!
Hi ,Maxwell outsmarted Smith.That tweet from you look more silly now. ๐๐
โ Jose 'Judas' fan (@SemperFiUnited)
Hope you know you can't buy Maxwell ๐น
Isn't that everywhere?
Indore seems more of MS Dhoni home ground rather than of kings XI Punjab !
โ malay jain (@malay_j2)
No excuses for anymore brain fadesย
Best thing for Smith is that he doesn't have to luk towards dressingRoom to make decisions as Dhoni wud b right there in d ground
โ Sir Ashish Nehra (@SirAshish_Nehra)
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