Australian Shaun Marsh stroked an entertaining unbeaten 74 as Kings XI Punjab outclassed bottom rungers Bangalore Royal Challengers by nine wickets in their home IPL game on Monday.

Bangalore elected to bat first, but once again struggled to come good as they scored only 143-8 in 20 overs. Punjab hardly had any trouble chasing down the total in 15.4 overs.

Shaun Marsh was named the man of the match.

Scoreboard

Punjab
S Marsh not out 74
J Hopes c Steyn b V Kumar 27
L Pomersbach not out 34
Extras: 9 ( b:0 lb:5 nb:0 w:4)
Total: 144-1 (15.4) | Curr. RR: 9.19

FOW: J Hopes (42-1, 6.2)

Bangalore
D Steyn 2 0 33 0
Zaheer Khan 4 0 35 0
P Kumar 2.4 0 15 0
V Kumar 2 0 11 1
A Kumble 4 0 36 0
V Kohli 1 0 9 0

Bangalore
J Arunkumar c Jayawardene b Sreesanth 1
V Kohli b Chawla 21
Misbah-ul-Haq hit wicket b Sreesanth 21
C White c and b Chawla 10
R Dravid b Pathan 29
M Boucher run out (Chawla) 39
P Kumar b Sreesanth 5
V Kumar b VRV Singh 1
Zaheer Khan not out 1
A Kumble not out 0
Extras: 15 ( b:5 lb:2 nb:0 w:8)
Total: 143-8 (20) | Curr. RR: 7.15

FOW: J Arunkumar (4-1, 2.1), Misbah-ul-Haq (36-2, 5), V Kohli (49-3, 5.3), C White (74-4, 10.1), *R Dravid (102-5, 15), P Kumar (123-6, 17.2), V Kumar (129-7, 18.2), M Boucher (139-8, 19.5)

Punjab
S Sreesanth 4 0 29 3
I Pathan 4 1 23 1
P Chawla 4 0 33 2
VRV Singh 4 0 15 1
Y Singh 2 0 14 0
J Hopes 2 0 22 0