Mohali: The home was of Punjab Kings however the get together was of Lucknow Super Giants. Lucknow, which confronted defeat at dwelling in IPL 2023 towards Punjab, settled the scores with Sood. Lucknow defeated Punjab by 56 runs on Mohali’s pitch which proved to be the graveyard of bowlers. On the idea of the storm of Marcus Stoinis and Kyle Meyers, Lucknow scored 257 runs, in response to which Punjab might rating solely 201 runs.
On Friday night on the PCA Stadium, Lucknow first scored the most important rating of this season abandoning the rating of 235 runs by Chennai Super Kings. Then within the twentieth over, he touched the determine of 250 and have become solely the second staff in IPL historical past to take action. Although she couldn’t break the document of 263 runs of Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Dhawan’s return didn’t carry coloration
Captain Shikhar Dhawan returned on this match for Punjab, who was sitting out of the final three matches. However, his comeback was not good and Dhawan was dismissed within the first over itself. His fellow opener Prabhsimran Singh additionally returned to the pavilion until the fourth over. Punjab’s two wickets had fallen for simply 31 runs however nonetheless the assault continued.
Even attempting laborious is not sufficient
Atharva Taide and Sikandar Raza shared a wonderful partnership of 78 runs to take the staff previous 100 runs by the twelfth over. Taide scored his first half-century in simply 26 balls throughout this era. Although each the batsmen have been dismissed within the twelfth and thirteenth overs, Taide was made his sufferer by Ravi Bishnoi, whereas Raza was dismissed by Yash Thakur.
After this, Liam Livingston additionally gave wickets on Bishnoi’s ball and Punjab’s defeat was confirmed from right here. Sam Karan and Jitesh Sharma performed some good pictures however they solely labored to scale back the margin of defeat and save the web run price from doing a lot injury. In 20 overs, the Punjab staff collapsed for 201 runs. Yash Thakur (4/37) and Naveen-ul-Haq (3/30) have been essentially the most profitable for Lucknow.
Meyers began the assault
The begin of Punjab Kings might have been good on this match if the catch was taken on the very first ball. KL Rahul missed a simple catch on this ball of quick bowler Gurnoor Brar, who was making his debut. Rahul bought out very quickly however Kyle Meyers made it rain. The explosive opener scored 54 runs scoring his fourth half-century. Both the openers fell prey to Kagiso Rabada within the powerplay.
In the subsequent 4 overs, the Lucknow batsmen batted much more and by the tenth over, the staff’s rating was 128 runs. There was an awesome partnership between Marcus Stoinis and Ayush Badoni. There was a partnership of 89 runs in simply 47 balls between the 2. When this storm stopped, Nicholas Pooran began batting indiscriminately with Stoinis.
Stoinis-Puran additionally rained
During this, Stoinis scored a half-century in 31 balls and added 76 runs in simply 30 balls with Pooran. Stoinis was dismissed within the nineteenth over and Puran was dismissed earlier than the half-century within the twentieth over, however each their innings took Lucknow to 257 runs. This is the most important rating of this season. While just for the second time in IPL a staff crossed the 250 mark. Rahul Chahar (0/29) was essentially the most economical for Punjab however wickets went to Rabada (2/52).
