Punjab Kings produced a superb all-round present as they condemned Royal Challengers Bangalore to a crushing 55-run defeat of their second IPL 2022 assembly. Chasing a mammoth 210 on the Brabourne Stadium, RCB managed 155/9 in 20 overs with PBKS maintaining their playoffs hopes alive whereas additionally enhancing their internet run-rate too.
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RCB although started the chase properly with Virat Kohli displaying glimpses of his old-self as he smashed two fours and a six earlier than Kagiso Rabada dismissed him for 20 within the fourth over. Rishi Dhawan then took two wickets in an over to cut back them to 40/3 earlier than Glenn Maxwell and Rajat Patidar joined forces to restore the injury.
The pair added 64 runs for the fourth wicket and RCB’s chase was again on observe. However, Rahul Chahar then broke the partnership with the scalp of Patidar (26) within the eleventh over and Maxwell (35) adopted him again to the dug-out two deliveries later ending their hopes.
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This was after Jonny Bairstow’s opening blitzkrieg discovered its superb match in Liam Livingstone’s ending carnage as Punjab Kings put up an imposing 209 for 9. While Bairstow laid the inspiration with a 29-ball-66, Livingstone was equally good in his 42-ball-70 because the RCB bowlers had a day which they want to overlook in a rush.
Bairstow, who was rusty through the earlier section of the match, was again in his ingredient with as many as seven sixes and 4 boundaries throughout a knock the place he actually went hell for leather-based.
Such was his dominance that by the point six overs of Powerplay ended, Bairstow had hit seven towering sixes and Shikhar Dhawan (21 off 15 balls) rubbed salt to the wound with one other one which made it eight in all.
Punjab Kings, which had set the template of blazing Powerplay begins, acquired 83 in six overs with Glenn Maxwell (1/17 in 2 overs), Josh Hazlewood (0/64 in 4 overs) and Mohammed Siraj (0/36 in 2 overs) being handled with utter disdain.
While Maxwell did handle to get Dhawan, each Hazlewood and Siraj had been responsible of bowling quick on a pitch providing true bounce. Bairstow effortlessly pulled and flicked them into the stands and by the point, deliveries pitched up, they landed within the stands as properly.
It solely helped that the boundary on one facet was 66 metres solely, which is a dream for any power-hitter.
Siraj had a forgettable first spell the place he was hit for 4 sixes, whereas Hazlewood in his first over had gone for 22. The Australian had his worst IPL figures ever.
However publish Powerplay, as soon as Wanindu Hasaranga (2/15 in 4 overs) and Shahbaz Ahmed (1/40 in 4 overs) began working, RCB stemmed the stream of runs with some tight wicket-to-wicket bowling.
Bengal left-arm spinner Shahbaz was rewarded for his tight traces as Bairstow lastly mistimed one and Siraj did properly to pouch the skier.
After 83 within the first six, there was a drastic dip in scoring as 22 got here in between seventh and tenth overs.
Both Hasaranga and Shahbaz bowled large exterior the off-stump not letting Livingstone and Agarwal to cost down the observe.
Still the Englishman managed a few sixes and a reverse swept boundary to proceed his good type within the competitors after which muscled into the stands in the direction of the fag finish whilst Harshal Patel (4/34 in 4 overs) was distinctive on the loss of life.
His fifty got here off 35 balls and by the point he was out, he had 4 out of these 14 sixes within the Punjab innings.
For PBKS, Rabada was the decide of the bowlers taking 3/21 whereas Rishi Dhawan and Chahar took a few wickets every.
With PTI Inputs
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