Punjab Kings has produced extremes on the final two events it has met Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. Last 12 months, the Kings accomplished a file chase of 262, and on Tuesday, the house aspect defended the bottom whole in the match’s historical past — 111.
Erupting in pleasure
The spectators right here on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium leaped in pleasure when Marco Jansen cleaned up Andre Russell because the Knight Riders fell 17 runs quick of the goal.
Yuzvendra Chahal led the house workforce’s historic fightback, claiming 4 for 28, together with key wickets of Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Ajinkya Rahane, who placed on a 55-run third wicket stand after the openers fell early.
The duo performed a few traditional drives and appeared to steer the workforce to a (*111*) and two factors comfortably.
However, Chahal, introduced in the eighth over, claimed Rahane off his fourth ball and had Raghuvanshi caught in his subsequent over.
Flurry of wickets
Glenn Maxwell then had Venkatesh Iyer struck in entrance earlier than Chahal got here again to have Rinku Singh stumped and Ramandeep Singh caught off the subsequent ball.
Andre Russell hit the leg-spinner for 16 runs, threatening to take the sport away. However, Punjab’s bowlers have been proper on the cash and didn’t let the sport slip away.
Earlier, Harshit Rana triggered a top-order collapse as Kolkata shot down Punjab for 111.
He claimed three for 25 contained in the PowerPlay because the Kings misplaced 4 wickets earlier than the fielding restrictions ended.
Despite the early wickets, Punjab batters persevered with attacking.
However, Varun Chakavarathy and Sunil Narine didn’t transfer away from the stump-to-stump line and picked two wickets every.
Shashank Singh hit a six and a 4 in his 18 off 17 to take PBKS’ whole previous the 100-run mark.
However, Vaibhav Arora trapped him in entrance, and a mix-up between the last-wicket pair discovered the house workforce strolling again inside 16 overs.
Published – April 15, 2025 11:04 pm IST
