After playing three consecutive away matches, Punjab Kings returned to their adopted home in Mullanpur and delivered another thriller albeit finishing on the wrong side of the result against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Punjab skipper Shikhar Dhawan chose to put SRH in to bat and the results were reaped almost immediately as SRH were reduced to 64/4 at the halway stage. But yougster and Player of The Match K Nitish Kumar Reddy (64 off 37) playing only his ninth T20 match showed great composure and was helped by timely cameos from Abdul Samad (25 off 12), Shabaz Ahmed (14 off 7) and Jaydev Unadkat (6* off 1) pushed SRH to 182/9.
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Punjab Kings did not fare any better at the start either and were reduced to 27/3 in the powerplay. Sam Curran and Sikandar Raza tried to rebuild the innings but they never looked like putting PBKS in a winning position. Jitesh Sharma (19 off 11) played a cameo, but it was last match’s heroes, Shashank Singh (46* off 25) and Ashutosh Sharma (33* off 15) who with their fine death overs hitting, managed to take PBKS within an agonising two runs of the target.
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Punjab Kings are now sixth on the points table with two wins from five matches, while SRH are fifth with three wins from five matches.
Here are all the stats and records from the match:
6 – Shikhar Dhawan is the sixth player to take 100 catches as a fielder in the IPL. The other players are – Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Kieron Pollard, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja.
2 – At 20 years and 319 days old, K Nitish Kumar Reddy is the second youngest player to score an IPL fifty for SRH. Priyam Garg is first at only 19 years and 307 days old.
2 – Arshdeep SIngh became the second player after Andrew Tye to take three four (or more) wicket hauls for Punjab Kings in the IPL.
11 – Jaydev Unadkat is the 11th player to hit a 6*(1) in IPL history. The full list of players who did the same is as follows:
Dwayne Bravo vs RCB, 2011(Final)
R Vinay Kumar vs CSK, 2012
Rajat Bhatia vs KKR, 2014
Aditya Tare vs RR, 2014
Rashid Khan vs PBKS, 2017
Javon Searles vs PBKS, 2018
Nicholas Pooran vs RCB, 2020
Ravindra Jadeja vs KKR, 2021
Daniel Sams vs RR, 2022
K Gowtham vs DC, 2023
Jaydev Unadkat vs PBKS, 2024
9 – Shikhar Dhawan’s stumping off the bowling of Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the ninth instance in IPL history of a batter being stumped off a pace bowler. The full list is given below:
Robin Uthappa off B Akhil, 2008, wk : Mark Boucher
Greame Smith off Shaun Pollock, 2008, wk : Yogesh Takawale
Lee Carseldine off Chaminda Vaas, 2009 wk : Adam Gilchrist
Dan Christian off Munaf Patel, 2011, wk : Davy Jacobs
Manvinder Bisla off Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 2013, wk : Mahesh Rawat
Gautam Gambhir off Shane Watson, 2014, wk : Dishant Yagnik
Suresh Raina off Kieron Pollard, 2014, wk : CM Gautam
Brendon McCullum off Sandeep Sharma, 2016, wk ; Wriddhiman Saha
Shikhar Dhawan off Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 2024, wk : Heinrich Klaasen
8 – This was Shikhar Dhawan’s eighth time being dismissed stumped in the IPL. He shares the record with both Robin Uthappa and Suresh Raina.
6 – The 75 runs that Punjab Kings scored in the last five overs, is the sixth highest in a chase in a losing cause, but 7th highest if all unsuccessful chases are considered as MI hit 89 in the last five overs while chaisng against RCB in 2020 and that match ended in a tie. It is also the second highest number of runs that Punjab Kings have made in the last five overs of a chase.
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