Punjab Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets in the 34th match of IPL-18. The match was played in 14-14 overs due to rain at Chinnaswamy Stadium. Batting first, RCB lost 9 wickets and scored 95 runs. Punjab scored 98 for 5 in 12.1 overs and achieved the target.
Interesting Moments and Records were seen on Friday. Arshadeep Singh became the highest wicket -taker for Punjab in the IPL. Marco ran behind Yansen and took a diving catch to dismiss Virat Kohli. Josh took the running catch of English Phil Salt. Rajat Patidar completed 1000 runs.
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1. The brilliant catch of English
Josh English caught Virat Kohli on one run.
Bengaluru lost one wicket in the first over of the match. Arshadeep Singh threw the fourth ball of the over a short in length. Phil Salt tries to pull it to the square leg. The ball took the upper edge and went into the air.
Josh ran from the English Midwicket and caught his gloves on the short square leg. Arshadeep made the initial success with this magnificent catch. Salt also hit the four on the first ball of the over.
2. Yansen ran back and caught a diving catch
Yansen Virat Kohli was caught out for 1 run.
RCB lost Virat Kohli's wicket on the fourth ball of the third over. Arshadeep Singh threw a cross-seam ball on the short length of the fourth ball of the over. Kohli went to the front foot to play the bridge shot but the ball didn't ring in the middle of the bat.
The ball went up in the air and it seemed like he would go up the mid-on. But Marco Yensen scored a wonderful run, kept an eye on the ball, caught the catch and protected the ball even when he fell to the ground.
3. Boundary did not become due to wet outfield
Despite Rajat Patidar's clean shot, the ball did not go to the boundary.
Xavier Bartlet threw the last ball of the second over. He bowled on the good length on the stump line. The Patidar leaned forward, quickly estimated the length and scored a goal on the mid-on. It seemed that the ball would easily reach the boundary, but due to heavy outfield, the ball was stuck near the boundary. The batters took advantage of this and finished two runs.
Facts and records
- Rajat Patidar has also added his name to the list of Indian batters scoring 1000 runs in the IPL. Patidar ranks second in the record by achieving this feat in 30 innings. Sai Sudarshan on number one, he achieved this in just 25 innings, the fastest for any Indian batter.
Arshadeep becomes the highest wicket -taker in Punjab Arshadeep Singh became the highest wicket -taker for Punjab Kings (PBKs) in IPL. He has taken 86 wickets so far. Earlier, the record was in the name of Piyush Chawla, who took 84 wickets for Punjab. Then there are bowlers like Sandeep Sharma (73 wickets), Akshar Patel (61 wickets) and Mohammad Shami (58 wickets).
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Punjab beat Bengaluru by 5 wickets: Chahal, Yansen, Arshadeep and Brar 2-2; Nehal Vadhera won the team by 33 runs
Punjab Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets in IPL's 34th match. The match was played for 14-14 overs due to rain on Friday at Chinnaswamy Stadium. Punjab chose bowling. RCB lost 9 wickets and scored 95 runs. Punjab chased the target in 12.1 overs. Whole news
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