Punjab Kings beat Rajasthan Royals in their second match IPL Captain of PBKS in the game played at Barsapara Cricket Stadium on Wednesday, 2023 Shikhar Dhawan And bowler Nathan Ellis guided the team to their back-to-back wins in the tournament, while Dhawan remained unbeaten on 86, with Nathan Ellis taking four wickets. Electing to bat first, PBKS scored 197/4 in 20 overs. In reply, Sanju Samson-led RR managed to post 192/7. PBKS won the match by 5 wickets.
Rajasthan Royals needed 18 runs in the last over to win. Captain Shikhar Dhawan handed the ball to Sam Curran, who brilliantly defended 18 runs. Thanks to his impressive bowling, Punjab Kings managed to get back in the game Shimron Hetmyer And Dhruv Juvel tried to snatch in the last over.
RR sent for opening in place of Ravichandran Ashwin jos buttler But he could not even open his account. At the same time, young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal could score only 8 runs. After this, captain Sanju Samson and Jose Butler tried to handle the innings, but Rajasthan’s innings fell apart as soon as Butler was dismissed. Butler scored 19 runs and Samson scored 42 runs. At the same time, Devdutt Padikkal played an inning of 21 runs. Riyan Parag was successful in scoring 20 runs.
Shimron Hetmyer batted brilliantly. The Punjab Kings bowlers were struggling in front of his fiery batting. At the same time, Dhruv Jurel supported him in the best way. After the fall of 6 wickets, both these batsmen won hearts with their batting as Hetmyer scored 36 runs and Dhruv scored 32 runs. Rajasthan Royals needed 18 runs in the last over to win. Captain Shikhar Dhawan handed the ball to Sam Curran, who brilliantly defended 18 runs. Due to their impressive bowling, Punjab Kings were able to take the game back which Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Juwell tried to snatch away in the last overs.
Nathan Ellis did an amazing job for the Punjab Kings. He won everyone’s heart with his bowling as he took 4 wickets. Arshdeep Singh got two wickets.
Batting first, Punjab Kings set a target of 198 runs. Prabhsimran Singh and Shikhar Dhawan played brilliant innings for Punjab Kings. Prabhsimran scored 60 runs, Dhawan scored 86 runs. On the other hand Jitesh Sharma contributed 27 runs. Bhanuka Rajapakse, Sikandar Raza and Sam Curran were dismissed for just one run. jason holder Took maximum 2 wickets for Rajasthan. Yuzvendra Chahal And Ravichandran Ashwin got 1-1 wickets.
Interestingly, this is the third time in the history of IPL that PBKS have won their first two matches. The other seasons when they won their first two games in a row were in the years 2014 and 2017.