A Punjab Kings besieged is to collect pieces after being stunned by “ Tornado ” Abhishek Sharma while they are faced with another difficult opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders in Mullanpur on Tuesday. It is a rarity that a team loses after having put on board a score of gigantic as 245, but the Kings of Punjab had to undergo a difficult defeat to Diger due to the coup de vortillon of Abhishek Sharma of 141 on only 55 bullets in their previous match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. A helpless shreyas Ier, which has itself broken an 82-ball of 36-ball, could only laugh at the end of the match after watching its torn quarrels in tatters by the flamboyant blade of Abhishek.
The carnage took place in Hyderabad, where the flat uppale track looks like a “national road” where no total is safe.
On Tuesday, however, Punjab will play at their home in Mullanpur where the land is also conducive to strikers and the management of the team must decide what type of conditions it would prefer in the future.
During the two games in Mullanpur, the 200 Plus scores were managed by the Batting First team.
The confidence of the bowling unit must have been shaken, in particular the two Filators Yuzvendra Chahal and Glenn Maxwell, who gave 96 points in seven overs.
And this is where the dilemma resides.
If the Punjab opts for a flat bridge, there is no guarantee that the bowling unit can defend anything in the 220 range, especially when KKR has tastes of Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh and Venkatesh Iyer in their rank.
A statistical element that head coach Ricky Ponting would not like to examine, is the saving rate of the Punjab bowling unit. None of the quisors exceeded nine races.
The generally reliable chahal experienced 11.13 points by more in five games with only two counters to show. The leg breaks in a loop, are wide outside the stump, do not work for him.
On the other hand, if Iyer and Ponting asks the curator to prepare a ready track where the ball would grab and offer an unequal rebound, he could well boomerang on them.
In the KKR corner, the most improved Spinner T20 of the country Varun Chakravarthy, who likes to play on this kind of surfaces and Sunil Narine, which, despite its peak, can be more than a handful in slower conditions.
KKR is a unit that can be just as dangerous on the two more flat bridges and the slow friendly tracks because they have all their covered bases.
In addition, the serious beat they set at the Super King Chennai in Chepauk would have made a world of good to their confidence.
The Kings of the Kings of Punjab depends strongly on the skipper Iyer (250 points), which has scored until now three years fifties in five games.
Priyansh Arya (194 points) was the discovery of the season. Nehal Wadhera (141 points), Prabhsimran Singh (133 points) and the finisher Shashank Singh (108 points) also give the team a lot of solidity.
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But the low punjab link is not their Indian players, but the two Australians – Glenn Maxwell (34 points) and Marcus Stoinis (59 points), who have not contributed to the bat until now.
The team expects much more from them, but facing Varun Chakravarthy and Narine would be a big challenge for the duo. Even Marco Jansen (ER of 11.33) overturned far too many loose deliveries for its comfort.
Teams: Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (C), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Vyshak Vijaykumar Kuldeep Sen, Pyla Avinash, Suryansh Shedge, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Pannu, Aaron Hardie, Priyansh Arya, Azmatullah Omarzai Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (C), Rinku Singh, Quinton de Kock (WK), Rahmanullah Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Luvnith Sisodia, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Singh, Andre Russell, Anrich Nortje, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy and Chetan Sakariya.
The match starts: 7:30 p.m.
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