IPL 2024: Punjab Kings defeated Rajasthan Royals by five wickets. With the loss of Rajasthan Royals, a team has a good chance to finish in the top-2 of the points table.
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Punjab Kings defeated Rajasthan Royals by five wickets. Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to field first. Rajasthan's batting hasn't been good either. Chasing a target of 145 runs to win, Punjab Kings captain Sam Curran led from the front. Rajasthan Royals have lost one of their most important games. Now the team has a chance to go to the top-2.
Rajasthan Royals now have 16 points from 13 matches and have a net run rate of plus 0.273. The team has one match left, which it has to play against KKR. A win against KKR will take their tally to 18 points. However, they are yet to secure a place in the top-2 of the points table.
Sunrisers Hyderabad have 14 points from 12 matches with a net run rate of plus 0.528. Hyderabad is ahead of Rajasthan in terms of net run rate. They have two matches remaining, against Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings. If Hyderabad win these two matches, they will be on 18 points and have a good chance of finishing in the top-2. Punjab Kings defeated Rajasthan Royals by six wickets. In previous match against PBKS, Rajasthan's loss was Hyderabad's gain.
Jonny Bairstow departs for 14 runs. He was dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal. Trent Boult opened the bowling for Rajasthan Royals. He got the wicket of Prabhsimran Singh. Avesh Khan bowled the fifth over. He took two wickets in this match. He picked up the wickets of Riley Rousseau and Shashank Singh. He couldn't even open his account. It seemed that the Rajasthan Royals team could defend even a small total in this match.
But Sam Curran held one end and he didn't get out till the end. He scored 63 off 41 balls with 5 fours and three sixes. It was because of him that the team won the match. Jitesh Sharma scored 22 runs. Ashutosh Sharma scored the winning run. Avesh Khan and Yuzvendra Chahal took two wickets each for Rajasthan Royals.
For Punjab Kings, Sam Curran, Harshal Patel and Rahul Chahar scalped two wickets each.
Rajasthan Royals has lost their first wicket when star batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal went back to the pavilion without opening his account. Sam Curran gets the wicket. Tom Cadmore was also dismissed for 18. Sanju Samson hit three boundaries. However, he too departed after scoring 18 runs. With this, the team of Rajasthan seemed to be limited to a very low score. But then Riyan Parag and Ravichandran Ashwin batted well. He scored 28 runs. Arshdeep Singh took the catch. Thanks to Riyan Parag, Rajasthan reached a respectable total. He scored 48 off 34 balls.
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