What a cracking game it was. An absolute thriller as it went till the last ball.
Rajasthan won the toss and asked Punjab to bat first. They got the opener, Mayank Agarwal for just 14 runs and none other than the debutant Sakariya gave RR their first breakthrough. Yeah, you got that right, Universal boss is here to rule the world and was on the right path. Gayle and Rahul had a partnership of 67 runs but Riyan Parag took his wicket just when he was looking dangerous for the Rajasthan team. Boss has to depart scoring 40 runs of 28 balls. Not bad? Yeah absolutely!
No one expected that they were about to witness a different kind of storm today. While KL Rahul built his innings steadily, came in the next batsman Deepak Hooda and he just went all out on bowlers smacking them all over the ground. Meanwhile KL Rahul completed his 50 runs and led the team from the front. Deepak Hooda scored his 50 in just 20 balls. He smacked Shreyas Gopal for 3 sixes in an over. KL rahul too switched the gears and just went on hitting the bowlers and the duo left bowlers clueless. They had a partnership of 105 runs. Hooda departed scoring 64 of just 28 balls. Most people know why Hooda was so hungry for runs and now we want the face off between MI and PBKS, id someone is still in confusion. Search Deepak Hooda Baroda controversy. After Hooda’s departure Rahul had the job of finishing the innings and he played all out. Pooran got a duck and Shahrukh Khan, the debutant scored 6 of 4 balls. It was KL Rahul who scored 91 of just 50 deliveries and took PBKS to a huge total of 221-6
Easy win? I don’t think so! Haven’t you watched the last
years face off between the two teams?
Yeah, 2 super overs game.
Rajasthan’s innings didn’t start well as Shami got Ben Stokes out for a duck in the first over. Oh no, BEN STOKES! Manan Vohra too fell for Arshdeep scoring 12 of 8 balls. Yes, the skipper is here to save the team from a collapse along with Jos the Boss. Although, Jos did't boss much and played a cameo of 25 runs in 13 balls. Pretty bad that they lost 3rd wicket at just 70 runs. Shivam Dube was no different. Scoring 23 of 15 balls, Can’t even call it a cameo when you are targeting 222. The dance guy, Riyan Parag hit 3 sixes and 1 four in his small innings scoring 25 of just 11 balls. Come on he scored 22 runs of just the boundaries. This is what Rajasthan’s inning looked like. Samson scoring at one end and the wickets keep falling.
Guess, who is at the crease now? Last year’s Hero, Tewatia. Guess who got out now? Tewatia, scoring 2 runs of 4 balls. The problems got bigger for Rajasthan. Sanju Samson, the lone warrior, completed his 100 on his IPL Captaincy debut. Just wow! Chris Morris, the most expensive player is on the ground now. Can he do something? I don’t know but somehow Sanju saw him scoring just 2 of the 4 balls he faced and that’s not what was expected at the death. Come on, do something you got more money than me. Lol, that was just a mild joke.
13 required in the last over. Another super over on cards? Samson, first ball – dot. Second ball – 1 Third to Morris – just 1, Fourth ball – 6 from Samson’s bat. Then a dot. 5 required of the last ball and?
Sanju Samson out! That hurts! Samson scored 119 of just 63 deliveries. He was left in tears!
Both the team played superbly! It was a batting pitch at Wankhede. The only problem that Rajasthan went through was that no one could played a long innings as Hooda did for Punjab!
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- Shubham Gupta
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