Punjab Kings beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the opening recreation in fashion. The predominant architects of the win had been Bhanuka Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka and Shikhar Dhawan of India. Both scored 43 and turned the sport on its head. Speaking after the put up match presentation, he praised the entire staff for a collective win.
“What we thought was that we’d simply have a free hit. Shikhar wished me to be aggressive though I had simply come out to the center. I knew how Hasaranga bowls. It was about figuring out him and enjoying him for the final 4-5 years now. I purchased my native information and it labored. This win is a big confidence booster. We watched this film known as ’14 Peaks’ and we have now 14 video games. Every recreation is a batter’s recreation. The credit score ought to go to the bowlers to limit them to 200. But within the middle-overs we gave away round 130 runs within the final 8-9 overs, ” stated Rajapaksa.
Earlier Brillant knocks by skipper Faf du Plessis (88 off 57), Virat Kohli (41 not out off 29) and Dinesh Karthik (32 not out off 14) powered Royal Challengers Bangalore to 205-2 against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the 3rd match of the IPL 2022 at DY Patil Sports Academy, here on Sunday.
Apart from the trio of Du Plessis, Kohli and Karthik, Anuj Rawat also made valuable contributions with the bat for RCB with his knock of 21 off 20.
Invited to bat first, openers Faf du Plessis and Anuj Rawat gave RCB a good start. Playing their debut match for the franchise, both batters played some good shots, hit few boundaries and took RCB to 41-0 at the end of 6 overs. However, Rawat could carry his innings longer after the powerplay and was cleaned up by Rahul Chahar. The southpaw, who was looking to take the attack to the PBKS bowlers, missed a slog sweep and got out after scoring 21 off 20.
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