Sangakkara steers Kings XI Punjab to IPL victory

The hosts then restricted their opponents to 116 for 9 in their quota of 20 overs with Chawla coming up with a brilliant four-over spell, in which he claimed two wickets conceded just 16 runs.

Brett Lee also produced exceptional figures of 4-0-9-1 while Irfan chipped in with two wickets in his team’s first victory in the tournament.

Mumbai Indians’ run chase was far from ideal with both the openers making an early exit courtesy brilliance of Australian paceman Lee.

The fast bowler removed dangerous Sanath Jayasuriya (1) with a superb catch off his own bowling and then effected Luke Ronchi’s run out with an athletic fielding in the third over.

West Indian Dwayne Bravo (23) and Robin Uthappa (21) then did the spade work, lifting the visitors with a 47-run third-wicket partnership.

But the duo went back to the pavillion in a gap of four runs, dealing severe blows to the hopes of the Mumbai team.

Rookie Piyush Chawla clean bowled Bravo and local boy VRV Singh had Uthappa caught at short mid-wicket to give another blow to visitors hopes.

The visitors paid the price of not building partnerships as batsmen succumbed to pressure of soaring run-rate and plunged to their third successive defeat.