Sports Top 10: The end of the 23rd match of the Indian Premier League (IPA) 2024 was quite exciting, in which the Sunrisers Hyderabad team defeated Punjab Kings by 2 runs at their home. In this match, Hyderabad, batting first, scored 182 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs, after which Punjab Kings team could only manage to reach the score of 180 runs. 20 year old young player Nitish Reddy played an important role in the victory of Sunrisers Hyderabad team in which he contributed with both bat and ball for the team. Meanwhile, Pakistan Cricket Board has announced its team for the upcoming T20 series against New Zealand, in which fast bowler Mohammad Aamir has returned to the team after 4 years.
Punjab Kings defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad on home ground
Punjab Kings played their fifth match in this season of IPL against Sunrisers Hyderabad. In this match, Hyderabad team, batting first after losing the toss, scored 182 runs in 20 overs in which Nitish Reddy played an important inning of 64 runs. While chasing this target, the Punjab Kings team had lost 3 important wickets in the first 6 overs, although Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma made this match exciting with their unbeaten innings, but both of them gave their team 2 wickets. Couldn’t save from defeat by runs. In this match, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 wickets in bowling for Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Abhishek Sharma completed 1000 runs while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Abhishek Sharma could not succeed in playing a big innings in the match against Punjab Kings. He could score only 16 runs in 11 balls, which included 2 fours and a six. However, despite his short innings, Abhishek has definitely completed 1000 runs for Sunrisers Hyderabad in T20 cricket. He is the first uncapped Indian player to complete 1000 runs for Sunrisers Hyderabad team.
This season of IPL, Punjab Kings made the lowest score in powerplay.
In the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, the top order of Punjab Kings proved to be a huge flop. In the powerplay, Punjab Kings team managed to score only 27 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. This is the lowest score of any team in the powerplay in IPL 2024. Rajasthan Royals team is at second place. In IPL 2024, Rajasthan scored 31 runs in the powerplay in the match against Delhi Capitals.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the second bowler to bowl the most number of maiden overs in IPL.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave a great start to the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, which was defending 183 runs against Punjab Kings and he took two wickets in his very first spell and during this he made two big records. During this period, Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave 15 runs in three overs and also bowled a maiden over. This was his 13th maiden over in the history of IPL and Bhuvneshwar Kumar is at second place in terms of bowling the most number of maiden overs. Apart from this, Bhuvneshwar took his second wicket in the form of stumping in this match. Where he dismissed Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan. Generally, fast bowlers rarely take wickets in the form of stumping. This is the second time in IPL that he got a wicket through stumping.
Nitish Reddy did a big feat in IPL at the age of 20
Nitish Reddy played an inning of 64 runs with the bat in the match against Punjab Kings, while he also took one wicket in bowling and managed to take a catch in fielding also. With this, Nitish has become the youngest player to achieve all three feats simultaneously in any match in IPL history. Nitish gave 33 runs in 3 overs in bowling and also got the wicket of Jitesh Sharma at the crucial time.
Shikhar Dhawan said poor batting in powerplay was the main reason for the defeat.
Shikhar Dhawan said after the defeat in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad that we had restricted them to a good 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 impact was visible in the end. We could have restricted them to 10 to 15 runs less, but still we lost this match due to poor batting performance.
Arshdeep Singh completed 150 wickets in T20 cricket
In the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, left arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh, playing for Punjab Kings team, took 4 wickets while giving 29 runs in his 4 overs. With this, Arshdeep Singh also completed his figure of 150 wickets in T20 cricket. Arshdeep Singh is the fourth left-arm fast bowler from India who has achieved this feat in T20 format. Before this, Jaydev Unadkat, Ashish Nehra and Irfan Pathan have done this in T20.
Name of Wanindu Hasaranga’s replacement player announced
Sunrisers Hyderabad on Tuesday announced the inclusion of young Sri Lankan leg spinner Vijayakanth Vyaskantha as a replacement for Wanindu Hasaranga in the ongoing Indian Premier League season. 22 year old Vijayakanth has played one T20 International match for his country Sri Lanka. He has joined Sunrisers for Rs 50 lakh, which was his base price.
Mohammad Aamir returns to Pakistani team after 4 years
Mohammad Aamir has returned to the Pakistan team for the T20 series to be played against New Zealand. Aamir had taken retirement from Pakistan cricket, but has returned to the team after 4 years. Recently, Aamir took a U-turn from his retirement and made himself available for Pakistan cricket. Apart from this, Imad Wasim has also returned to the Pakistan team. Imad Wasim had also taken retirement. This series against New Zealand will be played from 18 to 27 April.
Rajasthan Royals will play against Gujarat Titans at home.
Rajasthan Royals, who have played brilliantly under the captaincy of Sanju Samson so far this season, will face Gujarat Titans at their home ground in Jaipur. There has been a lot of difference in the performance of both the teams so far. While the Rajasthan team has won all the 4 matches played, the Gujarat Titans team playing under the captaincy of Shubhman Gill could win only 2 out of 5 matches.
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