Punjab Kings (PBKS) has taken contrasting routes to victory in its final two conferences in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) within the IPL. Final yr, the Kings accomplished a report chase of 262, and on Tuesday, they defended 111, the bottom whole within the match’s historical past.
The spectators on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium leaped in pleasure when Marco Jansen cleaned up Andre Russell because the Knight Riders fell 16 runs in need of the goal.
Yuzvendra Chahal, introduced in within the seventh over, led the house crew’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 shedding the openers early.
The duo performed a couple of basic drives and appeared to steer the crew to the 2 factors comfortably. Nevertheless, Chahal claimed Rahane off his fourth ball and had Raghuvanshi caught within the subsequent over. Glenn Maxwell then trapped Venkatesh Iyer in entrance earlier than Chahal had Rinku Singh stumped and Ramandeep Singh caught.
Russell hit the leg spinner for 16 runs, threatening to take the sport away. Nevertheless, 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 which allowed Kolkata to limit Punjab to 111. He claimed three for 25 contained in the PowerPlay because the Kings misplaced 4 wickets earlier than the fielding restrictions ended.
Regardless of shedding early wickets, Punjab batters persevered with assault. Varun Chakavarathy and Sunil Narine caught to 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. Nevertheless, Vaibhav Arora struck him in entrance, and a mixup between the final two batters discovered the house crew strolling again contained in the 16 overs.