Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: In the thrilling match of IPL 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad team defeated Punjab Kings by 2 runs. In this match, victory of neither team seemed certain till the last over. In this breath-taking match, Hyderabad ultimately won. Batting first, Sunrisers Hyderabad team gave a target of 183 runs to Punjab Kings, in response to which Punjab Kings team was all out for 180 runs.
Punjab Kings lost
Punjab Kings were very bad in the match when Jonny Bairstow returned to the pavilion without opening the account. After this Shikhar Dhawan could score only 14 runs. Then Prabhasimson Singh also got out after scoring four runs. But after this Sam Curran and Sikandar Raza tried to stay on the wicket for some time. But both of them could not convert their good start into big innings. Sam scored 29 runs and Raza scored 28 runs. In such a situation, everyone felt that the innings of Punjab Kings would end soon. But after this Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma batted amazingly. Both these players took Punjab Kings closer to victory, but could not win. Shashank Singh scored 46 runs and Ashutosh scored 33 runs.
29 runs were needed in the last over
In the last over, Punjab Kings needed 29 runs to win. But Shashank and Ashutosh could score only 26 runs. Jaydev Unadkat bowled the last over. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 wickets for Hyderabad. One wicket each went to the account of Pat Cummins, T Natarajan, Nitish Reddy and Jaydev Unadkat.
Nitish Reddy scored a half century
At one time, Sunrisers Hyderabad team had lost four wickets for 64 runs against Punjab Kings. The important batsmen of the team had returned to the pavilion. Then Nitish Reddy played an excellent innings for Hyderabad. He scored 64 runs in 37 balls. Apart from him, Travis Head scored 21 runs. Apart from him, Abdul Samad contributed 25 runs in the end. It is because of these players that Sunrisers Hyderabad team was able to score big. Arshdeep Singh took maximum 4 wickets for Punjab Kings.
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