PBKS vs KKR IPL 2023: Shikhar Dhawan‘s Punjab Kings started their IPL 2023 marketing campaign with a win over Nitish Rana’s Kolkata Knight Riders in Mohali. The Kings defeated the Knight Riders in a high-scoring sport on the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali as they gained by 7 runs on the DLS technique.
KKR discovered it exhausting to chase PBKS’ rating of 191 as they suffered a couple of early blows. Venkatesh Iyer and Nitish Rana stabilised the ship earlier than the latter fell at a vital stage. Meanwhile, Andre Russell was going behind the PBKS assault however was caught off Sam Curran’s ball. After Iyer’s wicket, it turned very troublesome for the purple military as rain intervened after 16 overs when KKR have been at 146/7. The sport didn’t resume and Punjab gained by 7 runs by way of DLS technique.
Riding on the again of sensible contributions from all the prime seven, Punjab registered a complete of 191. Bhanuka Rajapaksa bought a fiery fifty whereas Shikhar Dhawan performed tremendous for his 40 off 29. The center order powered the Kings to an honest whole. Jitesh, Raza, Sam Curran and Shahrukh Khan offered the ending touches with Curran being the highest scorer among the many 4 with 26 runs in 17 balls.
PBKS Playing XI:
Shikhar Dhawan (c), Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Shahrukh Khan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Nathan Ellis, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh
KKR Playing XI:
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Mandeep Singh, Nitish Rana (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Anukul Roy, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
