After the three wickets of left -arm spinner Harpreet Brar after the Punjab Kings team Nehal Vadhera and Shashank Singh’s Atishi half -centuries, the Indian Premier League (IPL) match was defeated by 10 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Sunday and reached close to the playoffs. With this victory, Punjab Kings have got 17 points like Royal Challengers Bangalore in 12 matches. With this, he is included in the top two -location race in the table for the first time since 2014. The team of coach Ricky Ponting needs just another point to ensure the playoff space.
Punjab Kings won the toss and scored 219 for five wickets thanks to the half -centuries of Vadhera (70 runs) and Shashank (59 runs).
Vadhera hit five fours and five sixes in a 37 -ball innings. This is also his best score of IPL. Apart from him, Shashank Singh hit five fours and three sixes during an unbeaten 30 -ball unbeaten innings.
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Brar, who landed in place of Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer, bowled amazing and took three wickets for 22 runs, which could not fulfill the hope of winning the last match of Rajasthan Royals in the last match in front of his domestic audiences while he made a brilliant start by chasing the target.
Despite the half -century of opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (50 runs) and Dhruv Jurlel (53 runs), Rajasthan’s team could only score 209 runs for seven wickets, while in the powerplay, the team scored their best score by scoring 89 runs in this IPL.
Both openers Jaiswal and Vaibhav Suryavanshi (40 runs) made a good start by playing 76 runs in 29 balls for the first wicket.
The wickets of these two were shocked by spinner Harpreet Brar. In the fifth over, Suryavanshi caught Javier Bartlett in an attempt to send this bowler’s ball to the long off, but the team was in good position with his four fours and four sixes in 15 balls.
Then Jaiswal had completed his half -century that he was caught by Mitchell Owen after playing a tired shot on Brar’s goodbye ball.
In this way, Rajasthan Royals lost the second wicket for 109 runs in 8.4 overs.
Samson was seen in good form, but Ajmatullah Umarzai finished his 20 -run innings by getting caught by Marco Yansen.
Brar got the third wicket as Ryan Parag (13 runs), which was bowled on his backlikent ball.
Jurael (31 balls, three fours, four sixes) and Shimron Hetmyer (11) had scored 37 off 24 balls for the fifth wicket, but Hetmyer was out in an attempt to play a big shot off Umarzai’s ball.
Marco Yansen and Ajmatullah Umrajai took two wickets for Punjab Kings.
Punjab Kings started to bat after winning the toss, but in the second over, Priyansh Arya (09) lost the wicket. The opener gave an easy catch to Shimron Hetmyer off Tushar Deshpande (two for 37 runs).
But Prabhasimran Singh (21 runs, 10 balls) continued to play fast and hit a four and six on Mafa in the next over.
Mitchell Owen’s IPL debut ended at zero in two balls and Punjab Kings lost wickets continuously.
Prabhasimran, who was looking dangerous, was dismissed on the first ball of the next over when he was caught by wicketkeeper and captain Sanju Samson in an attempt to send Deshpande’s ball towards the leg side. The field umpire did not initially give him out. But Samson took a review and the verdict was overturned.
But Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer (30 runs) and Vadhera together kept the run pace by partnering 67 runs in 44 balls for the fourth wicket.
Iyer appeared in excellent form during the 25 -ball innings, which included five fours. But suddenly lost his wicket when Ryan was caught by Yashasvi Jaiswal in the long off off Parag.
Vadhera was in a spectacular form but he got a life for 47 runs in the 12th over when Vanindu Hasranga left the catch on his own ball.
Vadhera took advantage of the opportunity and finished his half -century in 25 balls by hitting Akash Madwal on the backward square leg. The left -handed batsman hit Madhwal six on the next ball.
Vadhera hit most of his fours and sixes. Vadhera’s brilliant innings ended when he tried to put a shot twice in a row but was caught by Hetmyer on Madhwal’s ball.
In the end, Ajmatullah Umarzai also performed well by playing an unbeaten 21 runs in nine balls.
Apart from Deshpande’s two wickets, Quenna Mafaka, Ryan Parag and Akash Madhwal got one wicket each. (Language)
