The 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) saw an exciting match between Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings at the ground in Ahmedabad. Punjab Kings won this match by 3 wickets in which Shashank Singh’s explosive unbeaten inning of 61 runs played an important role. After his innings, Punjab Kings must have realized the mistake they had made during this season’s player auction, however, now they would not be feeling sad at all about this mistake.
32 year old Shashank Singh was bought in place of 19 year old Shashank.
During the IPL 2024 player auction, Punjab Kings made a mistake in buying two players with similar names. Punjab Kings wanted 19 year old Shashank to be a part of their team, but they did not pay attention and at the time of auction, they sold 32 year old Shashank Singh. At that time Punjab Kings bought this player but later they refused because they wanted to buy this player. However, due to the completion of the auction process, Punjab Kings had to decide to keep him as a part of the team. PBKS had also given clarification regarding this on social media. 32 year old Shashank Singh was bought by Punjab Kings for the base price of Rs 20 lakh. This is Shashank Singh’s fourth team in IPL, before this he has also been a part of Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Daredevils and Sunrisers Hyderabad teams.
Punjab had lost 4 wickets at 70, from there the entire match was overturned.
Punjab Kings had a target of 200 runs in this match against Gujarat Titans, chasing which they lost 4 wickets at the score of 70 runs, in which apart from the team captain Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran and Prabhsimran Singh were all out. Wicket included. From here, Shashank Singh took over the innings from one end and also increased the pace of scoring runs. Shashank got the support of Jitesh Sharma and Ashutosh Sharma in this, after which in the last over, Punjab Kings needed 7 runs to win, in which the team scored only 2 runs in the first 3 balls with the loss of one wicket. After this, Shashank gave victory to the team by hitting a four on the fourth ball and taking one run on the fifth ball.
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