In the 58th match of the 17th season of IPL, Punjab Kings had to face a crushing defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Royal Challengers Bangalore team won this match by 60 runs. Virat Kohli played a brilliant role in RCB’s victory. Whereas RCB has kept their hopes alive for the playoffs with this win, but Punjab Kings’ hopes for the playoffs this season are completely over and now they will not be able to make it to the playoffs even if they want to. After this important match played between the two teams, Punjab Kings captain Sam Curran looked very disappointed. He also talked about his team’s performance after the match.
After losing to Royal Challengers Bangalore in a rain-affected match in Dharamshal on Thursday, Punjab Kings captain Sam Curran said that his team’s performance this season has been disappointing. Punjab Kings have won only 4 matches in the 12 matches played this season and are out of the race for the IPL playoffs, as they will be able to reach only 12 points despite winning the remaining two matches. Which is less for qualification.
what did sam curan say
Karan said after the match that while talking about the tournament, it was heartbreaking, there were many positive things. But we feel bad if we could not perform well in an important match. Karan further said that we knew that Virat was at the crease so we had to take his wicket. We tried to make a good adjustment but could not. Will try to make a comeback next year. Let us tell you that this season the captaincy of Punjab Kings was in the hands of Shikhar Dhawan, but due to injury, Dhawan is on rest. On Shikhar Dhawan, Karan said that Shikhar Dhawan could have made a comeback after a few matches but it could not happen. The team has suffered losses due to the absence of Dhawan.
How was the match?
In this match played between the two teams in Gharmshala, RCB team batted first and scored 241 runs for seven wickets on the basis of Kohli’s brilliant innings of 92 runs in 47 balls. During this, Patidar and Cameron Green also played brilliant innings for their team and supported Virat Kohli from one end. In this match, Patidar scored 55 runs on 23 balls and Green scored 46 runs on 27 balls. During the run chase in the second innings of the match, Punjab Kings team was batting very fast, but their wickets kept falling from one end. Where Punjab Kings were all out for 181 runs in 17 overs. With this, RCB won this match very easily.
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