Punjab won the 5th match due to excellent bowling beat RCB | बेहतरीन बॉलिंग से पंजाब ने 5वां मैच जीता: RCB को होमग्राउंड पर लगातार तीसरी हार मिली; हेजलवुड ने 3 विकेट लिए
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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
Yuzvendra Chahal, who came to bowl in the middle overs, conceded 11 runs in 3 overs. He put pressure on RCB’s batter and also took 2 big wickets. Chahal caught RCB captain Rajat Patidar and Jitesh Sharma. RCB could not score a big score under the pressure of their bowling.
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 notout 35 runs and won the team.
- 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
Tim David, who came to batting after a consecutive wickets, put a fifty. He was the one who took the team’s score to 95. In bowling, Josh Hazlewood tried to save the match with 3 wickets, but he did not get any support at the second end.
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.
5. Hazlewood reached second in the top wicket
Nicholas Puran of Lucknow remains the top run scorer for 357 runs. Josh Hazlewood of Bengaluru reached the second number in the top wicket Taker with 12 wickets. Punjab won the 5th of 7 and finished second in the points table. RCB reached number four.
