NEW DELHI: Punjab Kings Friday, recorded a five -gate victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in a rainy first Indian League match. With this victory, PBKS climbed second in the points table with 10 points, after winning five of their seven games so far.
The striker first in the 14 -Overs competition per side – shortened due to evening showers – RCB displayed 95 for nine. Tim David led the charge with a counterattack of 50 on 26 balls. However, the rest of the RCB range of strikers had a hard time starting.
In response, Punjab hunted the target with ease, reaching 96 in 12.1 overs. Nehal Wadhera played a crucial hand with a keen on deliveries of 33 out of 19. Despite a commendable spell by Josh Hazlewood, who finished with 3/14 figures, RCB could not prevent the punjab strikers from crossing victory.
After the match, the skipper of PBKS Shreyas Iyer praised the adaptability and instinctive decision -making of his under pressure team.
“As they say that the variety is the spice of life. We are able to live all kinds of games here. It is a big challenge. There was no thought to be honest. I made instinctive movements and obviously, Marco was able to extract a little bounce on this bowling. Punjab’s Kings victory.
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Do you think Punjab Kings will keep their strong shape in future matches?
“When I had a conversation with Arshdeep,” he said, hard bullets were very difficult to hit on this counter because I did not see a single six bowler of fats on the ground.
“Personally, I had a conversation with Chahal. I told him that you are a winner of the match and that you have to get us as much as possible.” Says the skipper.
The Punjab Kings will again resume RCB in their inverted match on Sunday in Mullanpur.