Punjab Kings defeated Rajasthan Royals of their second match of IPL 2023, on Wednesday, In the sport performed at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, PBKS skipper Shikhar Dhawan and bowler Nathan Ellis guided the group to their back-to-back win within the match, While Dhawan remained unbeaten at a rating of 86 runs, Nathan Ellis took a four-wicket haul. Coming to bat first, PBKS scored 197/4 in 20 overs. In response, Sanju Samson-led RR managed to attain 192/7. PBKS received the match by 5 wickets.
Rajasthan Royals wanted 18 runs to win within the final over. Skipper Shikhar Dhawan handed the ball to Sam Curran the bowler brilliantly defended 18 runs. Due to his spectacular bowling, Punjab Kings managed to take again the sport which Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Juvel tried to grab away within the final overs.
RR despatched Ravichandran Ashwin to open rather than Jos Buttler however he couldn’t even open his account. At the identical time, younger opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was in a position to rating solely 8 runs. After this, captain Sanju Samson and Jos Buttler tried to deal with the innings, however Rajasthan’s innings fell aside as quickly as Buttler was dismissed. Butler scored 19 runs and Samson scored 42 runs. At the identical time, Devdutt Paddikal performed an innings of 21 runs. Riyan Parag managed to attain 20 runs.
Shimron Hetmyer batted brilliantly. The bowlers of Punjab Kings have been struggling in entrance of his fiery batting. At the identical time, Dhruv Jurel supported him in the easiest way. After the autumn of 6 wickets, each these batsmen received the hearts of everybody with their batting as Hetmyer scored 36 runs and Dhruv scored 32 runs. Rajasthan Royals wanted 18 runs to win within the final over. Skipper Shikhar Dhawan handed the ball to Sam Curran the bowler brilliantly defended 18 runs. Due to his spectacular bowling, Punjab Kings managed to take again the sport which Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Juvel tried to grab away within the final overs.
Nathan Ellis did an incredible job for Punjab Kings. He received everybody’s coronary heart along with his bowling as he took a 4-wicket haul. Arshdeep Singh received 2 wickets.
Punjab Kings set a goal of 198 runs after coming to bat first. Prabhsimran Singh and Shikhar Dhawan performed good innings for Punjab Kings. Prabhasimran scored 60 runs, Dhawan scored 86 runs. On the opposite hand, Jitesh Sharma contributed 27 runs. Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Sikandar Raza and Sam Curran have been dismissed for only one run every. Jason Holder took the utmost 2 wickets for Rajasthan. Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravichandran Ashwin received 1 wicket every.
Interestingly, it is just the the third time within the historical past of the IPL that PBKS have received their first two matches. The different seasons once they received their first two video games consecutively was within the yr 2014 and 2017.
