Punjab won today’s match at its home ground by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders by 16 runs. The match was played at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Punjab. In this match, Kings XI Punjab scored 111 in the first inning, losing all wickets in 15 overs. In reply, KKR was out for 95 runs with only 4.5 overs remaining.
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Punjab’s team gave a good start in the first inning, but the trio of Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, and Sunil Narine messed up the game, putting effort into their googly spell. Three of them took 7 wickets, including Rana with 3 and Chakravarthy and Narine with 2 each, and dismantled Punjab’s team on just 111 runs.
No one from Punjab crossed the score of 30, with only Prabhsimran Singh scoring 30 runs after Arya’s 24 runs. Shreyas Iyer and Maxwell also went to Pavilion under 10. Today’s match shows bowling skill and googly magic from both sides.
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After the first inning, it seemed that KKR would win easily in today’s match, but Punjab’s team effort and spinner’s desperate spell Kings 11 Punjab’s team wrapped up at 95. KKR’s start was not good, as the team lost its first wicket in the starting overs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 37, the highest run from the team.
Whereas the entire KKR team dismissed scoring worse runs, including 8 players out on single digits. Now, Punjab has positioned 4th in the points table, backing LSG.
