Power House Batting from Bairstow and Shashank Singh made a record breaking chasing down in T20 cricket , KKR Left stunned .

42th IPL Match, happening between Kolkata Knight Riders and the Punjab Kings, was being played at Eden Garden, Kolkata on 26th of Apr, 2024. Punjab kings won the tossing and chosen to bowl first.

Teams-

Kolkata Knights Riders (Playing XI):
Philip Salty(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyor(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russel, Ramandeep Singh, Dushmantha Chameera, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana

Punjab King’s (Playing XI):
Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curren(c), Rilee Rossouw, Jitesh Sharma(w), Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh

Here are the Impact substitutes for Both of the Teams:

Punjab kings Impact Subs:
Prabhsimran Singh, Rishi Dhawan, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Prince Choudhary

Kolkata Knight Riders Subs:
Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Rahmanullah Gurbaz

FIRST INNING-
As Usuals, Philip Salt and Sunil Narine came for opening, For KKR, Both of Them Blasted to the Punjab Kings Bowlers and keeps Attacking to Opposition Till 10 Overs, Without losings wicket. The opening partnership, between Salt and Narine, was 138 runs. Sunil Narine smashed 71 run in 32 ball with 9 four and 4 sixes. Philip Salt scored 75 run in 37 ball with six fours and six sixes . After dismissals of two opener, salt and narine; Venkatesh, Russell, and Shreyash Iyer pulled some dangerous shots! With Explosive Battling Performance From these guys, Kolkata Knight riders scored 261-6!!! Punjab Kings drops couple of catch. Arshdeep Singh Took 2 Wicket, Sam Curran, Harshal Patel, and Rahul Chahar Took one wicket Each.

 

SECOND INNING-

Jonny Bairstow and Prabhsimran Singh Came for open for Punjab Kings. Bairstow Misses couple matches due to poor performance in the past matches and he replaced Liam Livingstone in Squad. Both Openers smashed all the bowlers of KKR . Prabhsimran scored 54 run in 20 ball with four four and 5 sex. Prabhsimran was run Out by Sunil Narine very unnecessary way .After fallen of two wickets, Shashank Singh, and Bairstow took charges of the game and Counted every Bowler of KKR to attack. Bairstow didn’t make any Mistake to give his wicket. Those clean hit from Shashank was treat to watched! Jonny Bairstow smashed 108 run in 48 ball with 8 four and 9 sex. Bairstow stuggle Initial phase of IPL tournament. But Today he Silenced his Criticizers. Shahsank Singh 68 runs in 28 balls with 2 four and 8 sex! They chased down the target very Easily with sparing 8 balls left .

Who could have Thought, that They can Chase down 261 target ? Jonny Bairstow got the player of the matches for his Ruthless Battling! Shashank Singh is the finder of the Tournament! Punjab kings drops some catches during fielding, So they had Conceded so many runs on Scoreboard. This was record breaking chasing in the t20 cricket with Just loosing two wickets!! Prabhsimran started in a positive Manner! Now Harshal patel is Purple Cap Holder in the IPL Tournament , After this win, Punjab Kings reached 8th position of the Point table. In previous matches, Punjab kings came so close to winning but couldn’t Finish the game! In this Match. Punjab kings turned the table successfully.

Kolkata Knights Riders were too good in batting! But In bowling, Without Sunil Narine, they have much Bigger problem! Mitchell Starc was Absent due to injury issue! After this loss! KKR ist still 2nd position of the point table!!! The explosive Batting from Salt and Sunil, That can’t be forgotten by Spectators.