Currently, the Mumbai Indians (MI) are locking horns with Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai for their second encounter of the season. After winning the toss, MI’s stand-in skipper, Kieron Pollard decided to bowl first citing the chances of dew in the second innings. However, the Gayle storm struck in the 5th of the match itself.

During the toss, the KXIP skipper, R Ashwin revealed that they have made two changes to their squad as Mayank Agarwal, and Mujeeb Ur Rahaman made way for Karun Nair and Hardus Viljoen. On the other hand, MI had a forced change as their regular skipper Rohit Sharma was injured and he was replaced by the debutant Siddhesh Lad.

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KXIP openers, KL Rahul and Chris Gayle had a slow start as they had scored just 20 runs in the first four overs but then came the over of Jason Behrendroff in which Gayle smashed as many as three huge sixes and a four as well. After that, both the openers added as many as 116 runs for the opening wicket before Gayle getting out in the 13 over. Despite that partnership, KXIP only managed to reach the score of 159 after 18 runs, but then came the over of Hardik Pandya, in which Rahul smashed 25 runs in that over.

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In the 19th over, Rahul smashed three sixes and a four as he started the over with a six on consecutive deliveries to race away to 92 from 69 in a space of an over. He then reached his maiden century of the IPL with a six and a double off Jasprit Bumrah in the final over as Kings XI ended on a daunting 197 for 4.

Here is the video of the same:

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