Punjab Kings suffered a loss within the IPL 2023 match performed towards Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday. PBKS common skipper Shikhar Dhawan did not play the earlier two video games as he sustained a shoulder harm towards Gujarat Titans on April 13. Ahead of their subsequent recreation on Saturday fielding coach gave an update on Dhawan’s recovery.
PBKS have their subsequent match scheduled for Saturday, April 13. Trevor Gonsalves, the fielding coach of Punjab mentioned it is going to take one other two to 3 days on the provision of standard captain Dhawan, which places him a uncertain starter for Saturday’s conflict towards Mumbai Indians. In Dhawan’s absence, Sam Curran has been named the stand-in captain.
“It ought to take round 2-3 days extra,” PBKS’ fielding coach Gonsalves informed the media when requested about Dhawan’s harm update.
Despite lacking two matches, Dhawan remains to be among the many high 5 most prolific batters this season with 233 runs in 4 matches at 116.50.
PBKS misplaced to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 24 runs on Thursday. They have been bowled out for 150 in 18.2 overs whereas chasing 175.
Talking concerning the match, Gonsalves mentioned, “It was an excellent wicket to bat on. We received them at a ok rating, however we misplaced a couple of wickets early on.”
India and RCB pacer Mohammed Siraj grabbed 4/21 to do a lot of the injury throughout Punjab’s run chase.
“He (Siraj) is one of the best in the world at the moment,” mentioned RCB’s bowling coach Adam Griffith.
“Even within the final recreation the place (virtually) 440 runs have been scored, he went for (simply) 30. Not simply as we speak, he has been bowling nicely for the entire match and even earlier than that. We noticed how nicely he was bowling for India.
Punjab Kings have received 3 out of 6 matches performed and are within the seventh place on the factors desk.
