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Punjab Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets in the IPL’s 34th match. The match was played 14–14 overs at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday due to rain. Punjab chose bowling. RCB scored 95 runs losing 9 wickets. Punjab achieved the target in 12.1 overs.
Yuzvendra Chahal, Marco Jansan, Arshdeep Singh and Harpreet Brar took 2-2 wickets from Punjab. Nehal Wadhera won the team by scoring 33 runs. Tim David from Bengaluru put a fifty. Josh Hazlewood took 3 wickets.
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. Player of the Match
The team lost 7 wickets for 42 runs in front of Tim David, who came out to bat on number-7 for RCB. On this position, he hit a fifty off just 26 balls and brought the team to a challenging score of 95 runs. His team may lose, but his innings made him a player of the match.
2. Hero of victory
- Nehal Wadhera: Nehal batting fast to bat on number-5. He hit 2 fours and 2 sixes against Suyash Sharma. He was not out by scoring 33 runs and won the team.
- Yuzvendra Chahal: Chahal conceded only 11 runs in 3 overs. He caught RCB captain Rajat Patidar and Jitesh Sharma.
- Arshdeep Singh: Arshdeep, who came to bowl with the new ball, took 2 wickets. He sent Phil Salt and Virat Kohli to the pavilion.
- Marco Jesan: Jansan, who came to bowling in the second spell, also took 2 wickets. He sent Krunal Pandya and Manoj Bhandage to the pavilion. Jansan also caught Kohli’s catch.
3. Fighter of the Match
Josh Hazlewood tried to save the match with 3 wickets, but he did not get anyone’s support at another end. Hazelwood sent Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer and Josh English to the pavilion. He spent just 14 runs in his 3 overs.
4. Turning point
In 8 overs, Bengaluru took 4 wickets for 53 runs. Suyash Sharma came here to bowl, he dotted 4 balls against Nehal Wadhera, but gave 10 runs off the last 2 balls. Suyash then spent 15 runs in the 11th over. In a low scoring match, he conceded 25 runs off 8 balls, which proved to be the turning point of the match.
Nehal Wadhera and Marcus Stoynis won Punjab.
5. Hazlewood reached second in top wicket Tackers
Nicholas Puran of Lucknow remains the top run scorer for 357 runs. Josh Hazlewood of Bangalore reached the second number in the Takers list with 12 wickets. Punjab won the 5th of 7 and finished second in the points table. RCB reached number four.
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