In the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the losing streak of the Punjab Kings team is showing no signs of stopping. The team also had to face defeat by 3 wickets in the match against Gujarat Titans. Punjab Kings, playing the match at their home ground Mullanpur, had a very poor batting performance in this match, in which they were limited to 142 runs in 20 overs. However, Gujarat Titans team also managed to achieve this target after the loss of 7 wickets in 19.1 overs. This was the sixth defeat of the Punjab team in these 8 matches, after which it will be necessary for them to win all the upcoming matches to keep alive their hopes of reaching the playoffs. Sam Curran, who was captaining the Punjab team in this match, cited the excellent performance of the spinners of Gujarat Titans as the major reason for his team’s defeat.
We should have scored more than 160 on this pitch
After losing by 3 wickets in the match against Gujarat Titans, Sam Curran, who is captaining the Punjab Kings team, said that I think we scored 10 to 15 runs less in this match. We performed brilliantly in bowling and remained in the match till the end but it was not enough. We all know that Afghanistan’s spinners are world class and Sai Kishore bowled very well for which credit should be given to him. This is the third time this season that we have come on the field to play a match on this pitch and a score of more than 160 would have been very good, but despite this we fought well in this match. Prabhasimran bowled very well for us in this match but we lost wickets very quickly after the powerplay. Now we know that from here we have to win all the remaining matches.
Gujarat Titans spinners took a total of 7 wickets in the match.
In this match, the magic of the spinners of Gujarat Titans was clearly seen in which Sai Kishore took 4 wickets while conceding 33 runs in his 4 overs. Apart from this, while Afghanistan’s Noor Ahmed took 2 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs, Rashid Khan also managed to take 1 wicket for just 15 runs in 4 overs. After winning this match, it has reached sixth place in the points table, in which it now has 8 points after 8 matches.
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