IPL 2024 The 23rd match was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings. Hyderabad team won the match by two runs. Let us tell you, during the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings players dropped many catches, while the top-5 batsmen performed poorly in batting. Let us tell you, the Hyderabad team, which came to bat first, did not have a good start. Five batsmen of the team had lost their wickets near the 100 mark. Seeing which it seemed that Hyderabad would score around 150 runs. But on the basis of Nitish Reddy’s brilliant innings, Hyderabad team managed to put 182 runs on the board. On the other hand, while chasing this score, the top order batsmen of Punjab Kings once again disappointed the team. After the match, Shikhar Dhawan said, ‘We restricted them to a good score, but we could not take advantage of the first 6 overs, lost 3 wickets and this is where we fell behind and in the end we had to suffer the consequences.
IPL 2024: Shikhar Dhawan said this after the match loss
After the defeat in the match, Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan said, ‘We restricted them to a good score, but we could not take advantage of the first 6 overs, lost 3 wickets and this is where we lagged behind and in the end we had to bear the brunt of it. Had to suffer. When there was not much bounce on the wicket, every player would have to look back and change his approach. We dropped a catch on the last ball, we could have restricted them to 10-15 runs less, but the batting disappointed us.
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IPL 2024: Captain said this on the batting of Shashank and Ashutosh
The Punjab Kings captain also talked about the batting of Shashank and Ashutosh. He said, ‘I think Shashank and Ashutosh played brilliant innings. It’s great to see youngsters putting this kind of consistency into action. There was always hope that they could finish the game, but we came so close and that will give us confidence for future games, but we have to perform better going forward.
IPL 2024: Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma played unbeaten innings for Punjab.
For Punjab Kings, Shashank Singh scored unbeaten 46 runs in 25 balls with the help of 6 fours and one six, while Ashutosh Sharma scored unbeaten 33 runs in 15 balls with the help of 3 fours and two sixes. Whereas Sam Curran 29, Sikandar Raza 28, Jitesh Sharma 19 and captain Shikhar Dhawan played an inning of 14 runs. Whereas for Hyderabad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took two wickets. While T Natarajan, Nitish Reddy, Pat Cummins and Jaydev Unadkat took one wicket each.
IPL 2024: Arshdeep Singh is the most successful bowler from Punjab.
Arshdeep Singh was the most successful bowler for Punjab Kings. Who took four wickets for 29 runs. Apart from him, Harshal Patel and Sam Curran took two wickets each. While Kagiso Rabada got one wicket.
IPL 2024: Punjab Kings (Playing XI)
Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Jonny Bairstow, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Ashutosh Sharma, Sam Curran, Shashank Singh, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada and Arshdeep Singh.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI)
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat and T Natarajan.