Kings of Punjab
The match was played between Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings in IPL. Punjab Kings had to face defeat in this match. The Punjab Kings team is out of the title race after facing defeat in their last league match in IPL against Rajasthan Royals. In this match, Punjab Kings have to face defeat due to bad batting. Due to top order failure, once again Punjab Kings failed to score big. After the loss of this match, Shikhar Dhawan told why his team lost this match.
The captain said this after the defeat
Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan said here on Friday that his team scored 15-20 short runs. After the match, Dhawan said that after a bad start, Jitesh, Shah Rukh and Karan brought him back to the match, but we didn’t bowl well. He feels it would have been better to set a goal of 200 on this ground. He said that he felt that he did not do well in all three departments of a party. This is a young team and their performances have not been consistent. Dhawan said that he has learned a lot in the tournament as captain. He said that as a captain I have learned a lot. We make mistakes and we learn a lot from them.
match status
Man of the match Devdutt Padikkal (51) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (50) scored half a century after Shimron Hetmyer’s 46 as Rajasthan Royals kept their Indian Premier League playoff hopes alive. Batting first, Punjab scored 187 runs from five wickets, but Rajasthan achieved the target by losing six wickets with two balls to spare.
Adding to unbeaten innings of 49 runs from Sam Karan, for the fifth wicket with Jitesh Sharma (44) on 44 balls for 64 and for the sixth wicket with Shah Rukh Khan (41 not out), Punjab on the basis of an unbroken 37 . ball 73-run partnership The Kings pulled off a challenging total, but poor bowling cost their team. Punjab had a good chance to finish the Rajasthan trip. But his team couldn’t do it and Punjab had to end their IPL 2023 journey with defeat.
