The 23rd match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was played between Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Mullanpur. In this match, Sunrisers Hyderabad team, batting first, scored 189 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. While chasing the target, Punjab Kings lost 3 important wickets in the power play. Despite this, due to the explosive innings of Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma, they definitely made this match exciting, but in the end Punjab Kings had to face a close defeat by 2 runs. Whereas Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan said that the biggest reason for the defeat in this match was not taking advantage of the first 6 overs properly.
we held them to a good score
Shikhar Dhawan said after the defeat in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad that we had restricted them to a better score, but we could not score fast runs in the first 6 overs and also lost 3 wickets. I think this is where we lagged behind in the match, due to which its effect was visible in the end. I think Shashank and Ashutosh played good innings. When there is not much bounce on this wicket, then we all should have made some changes in our batting. We also dropped the catch on the last ball of the innings. We could have restricted them to 10 to 15 runs less, but we lost this match because of our poor batting. It is good to see that the young players are performing with this rhythm. We will try to do better in the coming matches from here.
Pat Cummins praised Nitish Rana
After the spectacular victory in this match, Sunrisers Hyderabad team captain Pat Cummins said that it was a great match from the cricketing point of view, Punjab Kings bowled very well while we managed to defend the score of 180. The best thing about the Impact Player rule is that you get depth in your batting. Initially, it was not easy for us to score runs while batting. If we had scored 150 to 160, you would have lost 9 out of 10 matches, but we were very happy after reaching the score of 180. We knew that the new ball was going to be very important in this match because we had seen how Punjab Kings took advantage of it. There are many left-arm bowlers in our team, which also benefited us. Nitish made his debut last week and in this match he showed what wonders he can do with the bat. He was excellent in fielding as well as in bowling, he bowled 3 excellent overs for us.
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