Electing to bat, all the Rajasthan top-order batsmen, except for Ajinkya Rahane (5), were among runs as the visitors were 94 for two at the halfway mark only to fritter away the chance for a big score towards the end.
Captain Rahul Dravid top-scored with 46 while Shane Watson (36 off 17 balls), Ashok Menaria (34 off 27 balls) and Brad Hodge (36 off 23 balls) chipped in with some strokeful knocks on a PCA Stadium pitch on which ball came nicely onto the bat.
For KXIP, Australian pacer Ryan Harris scalped four wickets for 34 runs while leg-spinner Piyush Chawla took two wickets for 38. All the KXIP bowlers went for runs but they came back strongly in the second part of the innings.
Watson was the most aggressive of the Rajasthan batsman as he hit four fours and two sixes while Dravid, who hit eight four in his 39-ball innings, held one end initially before he was out in the 14th over.
After Watson was out in the eighth over, Maneria carried on the tempo with some lusty hits. He was though lucky as he was dropped near the boundary by Mandeep Singh. He was eventually out off the bowling of Chawla in the 16th over.
Hodge then took the score past 175 with some big hits, including a six each off Harris and Azhar Mahmood. Harris, however, had the last laugh as he claimed Hodge's wicket in the final over.
