2024-03-26 02:35:19
Before entering the field in this match, the equation of the two teams was different. In the seventeenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Punjab Kings won their first match, Royal Challengers Bangalore lost. Today two teams faced each other. Batting first, Punjab threw a challenge of 177 runs in front of Bangalore.
Today Monday (March 25) Shikhar Dhawan’s team lost the toss and went to bat at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Dhawan himself led from the front. Punjab set this target with his 37-ball 45-run innings. They collected 176 runs after losing 6 wickets at the end of 20 overs with the contribution of the rest.
Jonny Bairstow (8) departed early after coming down to bat. Then Shikhar Dhawan formed a great pair with Prabhasimran Singh. Both added 64 runs on the scoreboard. After breaking the pair after 8.4 overs, Liam Livingstone came to the crease. But could not last long. Scored 17 runs from 13 balls.
After Liam’s departure, Dhawan departed after the team scored 98 runs. Sam Karan, Jitesh Sharma and Shashank Singh played three important innings after the captain’s departure. Karan’s 17-ball 22, Jitesh’s 20-ball 27, Shashank made a storm in the end. He scored 21 runs off just 8 balls with 2 sixes and 1 four.
Mohammad Siraj and Glenn Maxwell took 2 wickets each for Bangalore. Yash Dayal and Alzari Joseph took one wicket each. But Joseph was expensive. He spent 43 runs in 4 overs.