Pbks vs kkr: Punjab Kings have registered a historic victory by 16 runs against defending winner Kolkata Knight Riders under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer due to Yuzvendra Chahal's deadly bowling. After winning the toss, Punjab came out to bat first and piled on 111 runs in 15.3 overs. KKR, chasing 112 runs, was piled by Punjab bowlers for 95 runs in 15.1 overs. After this amazing victory, captain Shreyas Iyer said in the post match presentation that….
After winning a historic victory against his old team KKR, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer said that ...
"I saw that the ball was moving a little, told Yuzvendra Chahal that I am not able to talk as much as possible. I am not able to talk, it is difficult to digest this victory. When I went to bat, I faced two balls, one low, one, one, wicket, wicket had a different bounce. Seeing that we reached a good score, we were not winning the 16ths and we did not have a separate. The wicket gave us momentum but two of his batsmen took speed, but when Yuji started to rotate the ball, our hopes and hopes increased.
Punjab Kings bowlers, who came out to defend 112 runs, created history. In fact, chasing the target, KKR lost the first two wickets on the score of just 7, but captain Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi shared 55 runs off 38 balls to bring KKR back into the match. But Yuzvendra Chahal, who came to bowl from here, not only overturned the match with his bowling but also gave Punjab a historic victory. Chahal spent 28 runs in his four -over quota and took four big wickets, for which he was given the Player of the Match. At the same time, Marco Jansen also performed amazing and took 3 wickets for just 17 runs in 3.1 overs, including Andre Russell's last and big wicket. Apart from this, Arshdeep Singh, Glenn Maxwell and Xavier Bartlett took one wicket each.
Prabhasimran Singh and Priyansh Arya gave a good start of 39 off 20 balls to Punjab Kings, but captain Iyer also returned to the pavilion on a score of zero after Priyansh was dismissed. After this, Punjab Kings' wickets continued to fall and finally his entire innings was reduced to 111 runs in 15.3 overs. Prabhasimran Singh scored the highest 30 runs off 15 balls. At the same time, Shashank Singh scored 18 runs off 17 balls. Apart from this, Xavier Bartlett made a significant contribution of 11 runs off 15 balls, due to which the team managed to reach 111 runs.
