It should have been an easy win for the Punjab Kings. But they literally threw away the match. They were 91/0 after 11 overs and ended up at 158/6. Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match by 6 runs. This is the 4th consecutive failure for Nicholas Pooran, and I guess they should consider Deepak Hooda in his place. And with the extra overseas slot, they can play either Chris Jordan, Nathan Ellis or Riley Meredith. 

BTW, JSRAW will be happy. The Kolkata Knight Riders have included Shakib Al Hasan in their squad (replaces Tim Seifert). BTW, Umran Malik from Jammu and Kashmir is making his debut for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

After keeping Shakib on the bench for 5 matches, Kolkata has added Shakib to their squad today. Shakib should have been given a place in the squad earlier. Because, foreign players like Morgan, Narine are not performing well. SRH's collection in 11 overs is only 54/4. Shakib managed to take 1 wicket with 10 runs in 3 overs. Pretty good bowling.

Punjab Kings just blew their opportunity to qualify and they need to win the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore to stand a chance to get qualified and they blew up at the last moment. Today Kolkata Knight Riders is looking for a win and by the way the match is going Sunrisers Hyderabad is giving them the opportunity in a golden platter as they are struggling for 110 for the loss of 8 wickets and just 2 balls left.

Bhai i'm big fan of Shakib in every format. I wish we had couple of more guys like him along with Jaddu and Ashwin. Good on KKR that they included him tonight, hope he perform with the bat too. Pitches in UAE are slow and SRH bowlers are good on slow pitches so they need to watch out for the surprises.

Umran Malik is local guy for me but never heard about him in the domestic, guess Irfan Pathan is backing him similar to Samad.

I think Shakib is a world-class cricketer! Regardless, he turned in an excellent performance after a long break through bowling and fielding. SRH were restricted to 115/8 with an impressive bowling performance from Kolkata Knight Riders. It will be an easy and deserved victory for the Knight Riders. I'm watching the chase. SRH is having a forgettable season this season, nothing is going right for them.

However, Kolkata managed to beat Hyderabad in today's match and scored two valuable points. Yet their batting seemed disgusting to me. After the bowlers bowl so well, the batsmen should bat responsibly, dominate the entire match and win. I did not like the batting of Iyer and Nitish Rana. Iyer has scored 8 runs off 14 balls and Rana has scored 25 runs off 33 balls. They must remember that this is a T20 match. Here you have to score more than the ball. Although their goal was not too much, they should have batted more responsibly.

Shakib's entry in today's match was very fruitful for KKR as he has done very good at bowling and fielding now I am feeling he doesn't require in batting as target is just 116, and they are already on 16 in 3 overs and very long batting line up is in waiting this win is very good for KKR as now they could be favorite for qualifying in next round as their NRR is much better than other teams those are in qualifying race.

On Tuesday, we have one crucial match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals which will cut one more from this race. Still, plenty of exciting matches is coming in next few days.

Mate, you are right in your concern they have 2 valuable points, and now they have some chances as going in next round with 4th spot. Even we have some good matches still to come from Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians and KKR vs Rajasthan Royals, these are the most crucial matches for these 3 teams.

As you saying you are not happy with batting of KKR for this please check UAE pitches are very slow and SRH have some good quality bowlers who are doing very good, but sadly their batting was not on top but still their bowling done very reasonable job with very low target, so It's not about KKR batting some pitches also not good for batting.

From now for me Mumbai and Punjab kings already out of next round race now just these two have good and fair chance KKR is not good as Rajasthan Royals but after Shakib Al Hasan they are doing some better but still Rajasthan Royals are most favorite but mostly in cricket we have to wait till last ball because no one can predict 100% about result any ball can change all matches situation and its happen many times in recent IPL matches.

Tomorrow we have match for top rank both teams form is good and this could be anybody game; right now for grand finale I am feeling these two could be very strong and then still anybody game for championship.

Mumbai Indians does not have a chance to qualify this season and with the win today Kolkata Knight Riders is about to cement the final spot and they need to win the rest of the matches. CSK, Delhi and RCB are safe and the battle is for the final spot.

Tomorrow Delhi Chargers and CSK are playing and both are strong teams and Delhi have a much better bowling side and hence i am going with them to win the match.