Punjab Kings ended their campaign with a win after beating an already frustrated Sunrisers Hyderabad by five wickets in a crucial final IPL league match here on Sunday. Batting first Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 157 for 8 on a good batting track. but it was never going to be enough Liam Livingstone A hapless SRH minced the attack, scored an unbeaten 49 off 22 balls, and also hit the coveted 1000th six of the tournament. Shikhar Dhawan (39 runs in 32 balls) and Jitesh Sharma (19 runs in 7 balls) also contributed well for the team as the target was chased down in just 15.1 overs.
Punjab Kings, who have not made it to the play-offs since their last appearance in 2014, finished sixth, while Sunrisers finished their high-spending IPL in the 10-team competition in eighth place.
For Livingstone, it was once again about hitting big sixes as he smashed five runs in total, while Dhawan helped himself with two fours and two sixes.
He was Jonny Bairstow (23 off 15 balls), who made a direct attack Bhuvneshwar Kumar And Washington BeautifulWith a flurry of limits to set the pace.
It helped Dhawan play his cumulative game as Punjab maintained their philosophy of an all out attack, while Sunrisers dropped a few sitters on the field.
The worst-case scenario was Washington Sundar’s when Livingstein tried to hit Jagdish Suchit against the turn and offered a dolly on point.
There was a lot of disturbance on the field with Romeo Shepherd scoring 23 runs in the 15th over.
Earlier, the Punjab Kings bowlers showed a lot of discipline, restricting SRH to 157 for 8 in 20 overs. Arshdeep Singh (0/25 in 4 overs) celebrated his maiden India call-up with another classic spell, but it was his state team ally Harpreet Bara (3/26 in 4 overs), who was one of the wicket-takers of Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi And Aiden Markram,
With four qualifiers already decided on Saturday, there was little more than academic interest in the game and the ‘Orange Army’ seemed to be going through the motions with the bat before actually raising their score in the final few overs .
SRH batsman of the season, Abhishek Sharma (43 off 32 balls) started once again but it should have been converted into a big innings which didn’t happen.
The grim-looking Tripathi (20) crossed the personal milestone of 400 runs for the season, but the disappointment of not making it to the national team was rooted in his body language as he failed to add big hits.
Brar didn’t do anything extraordinary and kept it mostly on the stumps, blocking the opposition batsmen for runs.
it was left to romario shepherd (26 not out in 15 balls) and Washington Sundar (25 off 19 balls) to take Sunrisers past the 150-run mark as the two used long handles to good effect in a 58-run sixth-wicket partnership. 4.5 overs.
Actually, more than 50 runs came in the last four overs. Nathan Aliso (3/40 in 4 overs) erred at length despite two wickets each, which he got in the bargain.
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Ellis bowled a good hat-trick delivery which Bhuvneshwar Kumar could save from being run out in the very next ball.
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