IPL 2019, KXIP vs DC Highlights: Curran’s hat-trick leads KXIP to 14-run win

Shami has knocked over Vihari. DC- 148/8 (18.3 ovs) | Delhi Capitals need 19 runs in 9 balls

Curran's gets Harshal Patel and he is done it again for Punjab! KXIP are back into the match DC- 148/7 (18 ovs) | Delhi Capitals need 19 runs in 12 balls.

144-4 (Rishabh Pant, 16.4)
144-5 (Chris Morris, 16.5)
147-6 (Colin Ingram, 17.4)
148-7 (Harshal Patel, 17.6)

Colin Ingram is gone for 38 and Delhi are six down! Delhi Capitals need 20 runs in 14 balls.

Run Out! Ashwin hits the bulls-eye and that means Morris is gone for a duck! DC- 144/5, 2 in 2 for KXIP. Delhi Capitals need 23 runs in 19 balls

BOWLED! After being hit for a six Shami cleans up Pant for 39. The bat face came down a bit late and that was Pant's undoing. DC- 144/4, Delhi Capitals need 23 runs in 20 balls

Pant lofts Ashwin for a six and the 50-run stand between Pant and Ingram DC-135/3, Delhi Capitals need 32 runs in 27 balls. KXIP need to break this partnership to comeback into this.

Colin Ingram with a fine sweep as Ashwin drifts one on the pads. Delhi moving comfortably ahead. DC- 98/3

Ashwin traps Dhawan with the carrom ball. He cramps Dhawan for room who misses and gets hit on the pads first. KXIP get the big wicket right at the halfway mark. DC- 83/3 after 10 ovs

Mumbai fans won't be forgetting too soon what Pant did to their team at the Wankhede. But he has to bat a lot more than just five overs this time. 

Viljoen gets his first IPL wicket. Good length delivery outside off that Shreyas reaches out to, the ball takes the inside edge and rattles the stumps. Viljoen is pumped up!!! He punches the air, almost punches the fist Brett Lee style and then his eyes seemed to bore into Shreyas Iyer's soul as the two walked past each other. That is some scary stuff. 

This has been a good partnership from Shreyas and Dhawan. Apart from the one time when Shreyas almost chopped on off Shami, the pair have played a chanceless innings thus far. DC 49/1. 

Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer steadying the ship for Delhi. Both players have a hit a four each but nothing more flashy than that. Wicket conservation seems to be the priority at the moment. 

Shaw was stood there for some time as it was not clear whether he was bowled or caught behind. Replays showed that Rahul had caught the ball and knocked off the bails as a reflex action. There was a nick too so it was indeed a caught behind. Dhawan then hit a four off the penultimate ball of that over. 

How about this for a start. Prithvi Shaw caught behind off Ravi Ashwin off the very first ball of the innings. He was dismissed one run short off a century in the previous and now he walks without scoring any. 

Mandeep ends the proceedings with a six and a four so it is not all doom and despair for KXIP in the death overs. 

Rabada with a bouncer that hits Shami on the body. Mandeep has almost run all the way to the other side before Shami could even spot him and he decides to leave the crease. Rabada respectfully takes off the bails at the non-striker's end before giving Shami and apologetic fist bump. All that sportsmanship could have led to an awkward situation as the third umpire had to take a look at whether Rabada took the singular bail off without touching it with the ball first. But the big screen says out so no problems there. 

Murugan Ashwin hits the ball high up in the air, Pant and Avesh on collission course as both call for it. It's Avesh who catches it and the two end up giving each other a harmless little shove, stare at each other before letting out a smile. 

Captain Ashwin cleaned up by Morris. Low full toss, Ashwin trying to go over extra cover with an inside out shot. Not the easiest ones to execute and Ashwin misses it completely so the ball crashes onto the off stump. 

It's the Capitals' superstar Rabada who strikes. Viljoen surprised by the pace and ends up meekly lobbing it to extra cover. Sensational stuff from Delhi in the death overs. 

Miller tries to go aerial, possibly over midwicket but the ball takes the upper edge and loops far, far up into the night sky above Mohali. It is going only as far as Pant who keeps calm and holds on to the ball as if it was thrown to him by a fellow fielder. This is the kind of wickets that can win you matches and Morris will be mighty happy with that one. 

KXIP 136/4, Miller on  43 (29), Mandeep on 5 (8). All eyes will be on the former and fellow Saffer Chris Morris has the ball in his hands. If Miller can go big here, KXIP can put the match beyond DC. 

And what a spell it has been. He got Sam Curran and Sarfaraz Khan, both of them set on the crease and looking dangerous at the time they were sent back. 

Lamicchane gets the breakthrough. A thin edge and Pant does well to hold on behind the stumps. A good length delivery that spins away marginally as Sarfaraz commits on the front foot. His partnership with Miller ends on 62. 

There were questions raised against his inclusion in the first match. Those were valid - Sarfaraz has not played too much domestic cricket off late and hass hardly done anything to justify his talent in the previous editions of the IPL. But he is putting up a good show this season. 

Miller dances down the track and goes over extra cover. The ball crosses the boundary for a maximum and KXIP cross over into three digits. 

Avesh Khan gets hit three fours again, this time its Sarfaraz. The last of those came when Sarfaraz ducked underneath a length delivery and hit it over the keeper's head almost blindly. 

That is not the most wonderful way to go. Agarwal was on the non-striker's end when Sarfaraz hit it straight to Dhawan at cover. Dhawan throws it to the bowler's end, Agarwal is outside his crease and Dhawan slaps his thigh in glee. 

The game is on a knife's edge at the moment. The dismissals of Rahul and Curran may be big ones but a 50-plus total in the powerplay is not too bad either. 

The game is on a knife's edge at the moment. The dismissals of Rahul and Curran may be big ones but a 50-plus total in the powerplay is not too bad either. 

Sarfaraz Khan hits consecutive fours off Morris who has struggled with his line and length today. This is an even contest so far. DC have reached 50 within the first six overs but they have also lost two wickets. 

Curran hit a six off one ball and Lamicchane strikes on the next. The Englishman doesn't bother reviewing this one. It hit him in front of middle and is plumb as they come. So both openers back in the hut for KXIP. 

He is going after Avesh Khan. Curran had not faced a single ball in the time that Rahul was in the middle but he doesn't take long to get going. The second ball he faced was crunched past cover for four, he hit another off the next ball and then a third off the fifth. 

And Rahul is dismissed off the very next ball. Morris bowls it full but the ball swings in late, Rahul reviews the decision. There is no spike on the snicko as ball passes bat and impact is umpire's call. Rahul has to go. 

Rahul faces all the deliveries and hits a boundary off the third. That was a length ball on off stump angling away from Rahul, he went deep into his crease and put it past square. 

You would have thought that it will be Mayank Agarwal opening with KL Rahul but instead, it's Sam Curran. KXIP have played an April Fool's joke on all you Dream XIs out there. 

Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Colin Ingram, Hanuma Vihari, Harshal Patel, Chris Morris, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kagiso Rabada, Avesh Khan

KL Rahul(wk), Mayank Agarwal, David Miller, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Hardus Viljoen, Sam Curran, Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Murugan Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Delhi Capitals have replaced Amit Mishra with Avesh Khan. Kings XI Punjab are without Chris Gayle and Andrew Tye for this match. Big blows for them even before the match begins. 

Two teams that are coming in with all sorts of momentum and one of whom will have to be stopped today. First things first, the toss, which Delhi Capitals have won the toss and elected to bowl first.