"There are shorter boundaries here and we had a good game last time. For the bowling line-up as well we wanted to be more professional and test ourselves," skipper Virat Kohli said.
A frustrated Gayle threw his bat, inviting sanction from the IPL committee. However, both Archer and Gayle showed spirit of the game when Archer appreciated Gayle’s knock. During knock, he also became the first cricketer to smash 1000 runs in T20s.
According a Manjrekar, a bad precedent is set when a player is recalled for Test on the basis of his IPL performance and it "massively motivates" players playing the Ranji Trophy
They need to hope for favourable results from other matches to stay in the race for the final stages of the tournament. SRH skipper David Warner was visibly disappointed with the shocking turn of events.
The match on Sunday night ended in a tie in the regulation 20 overs and KXIP could only score five runs in the first Super Over but Shami bowled brilliantly to restrict MI to the same score.
SRH defeated KXIP by 69 runs on the back of some fine bowling performance. Chasing a massive target of 202 runs, KXIP got off to a poor start as Mayank Agarwal was run out in the second over of the innings.
