Punjab lost its first match on home ground: Hyderabad lost by 2 runs in the last over, finishers failed; Nitish Reddy's first IPL fifty

Apr 9, 2024 Divya Bharat

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Nitish Reddy also took one wicket. He was adjudged Player of the Match for his all-round performance.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has achieved its third win in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. The team defeated Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 2 runs in the 23rd match of the current season. This is Hyderabad's second consecutive win, while Punjab has lost its first match of the season at home.

Punjab captain Shikhar Dhawan won the toss and chose to bowl first at the Mullanpur Stadium on Tuesday. Batting first, Hyderabad scored 182 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Punjab batsmen could score only 180 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Shashank Singh remained unbeaten on 46 and Ashutosh Sharma on 33 runs, but could not finish the match. Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scored his first fifty in the league, was the player of the match. He also took one wicket.

Players' performance: Nitish's half century, Arshdeep took 4 wickets
SRH's Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 64 runs on 37 balls, while Abdul Samad scored 25 runs on 12 balls. Arshdeep Singh took 4 wickets from Punjab. Harshal Patel got two wickets. In reply
Apart from Shashank and Ashutosh, Sam Curran contributed 29 runs and Sikandar Raza contributed 28 runs for PBKS. Bhuvneshwar Kumar got two wickets from SRH.

Reasons for Punjab's defeat…

Reddy-Samad partnership could not create pressure in the middle overs Hyderabad lost three wickets for 39 runs in the powerplay. The team's score after 6 overs was 40/3, but Punjab bowlers could not create pressure in the middle overs. In such a situation, Nitish Reddy along with Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi took the team's score to 100/4 in 13 overs. After the wicket of Heinrich Klaasen fell at the score of 100 runs in the 14th over, Reddy made a partnership of 50 runs in 20 balls with Abdul Samad. This partnership laid the foundation for a big score.
Shashank's catch drop Nitish Reddy's catch was dropped on Harpreet Brar's ball from Shashank Singh in the 15th over. 22 runs came from this over of Brar.
Bad start, Dhawan-Jitesh could not take advantage of life's donation While chasing 183 runs, Punjab lost the wicket of Jonny Bairstow for 2 runs. Then on the score of 11, Prabhasimran also returned to the pavilion. In such a situation, Shikhar came under pressure and was caught by Bhuvneshwar in the fourth over, but the catch was dropped by Abdul Samad. Dhawan could not take advantage of this gift of life and Clason got stumped on the fourth ball of the over. Punjab's score in powerplay was 27/3. Jitesh Sharma also got a lease of life in the 16th over. He missed the catch from T Natarajan, but Jitesh was out on the third ball of the over.
finishers failed After Jitesh was out, Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma batted in the death overs, both remained unbeaten, but could not lead the team to victory. In the last over, Punjab needed 29 runs to win, but both the batsmen could score only 37 runs despite three catch drops.

Match report from here…

Hyderabad's bad start in powerplay
Hyderabad, who came to bat first, had a bad start. The team's score in the powerplay was 40/3. Travis Head was out on 21, Abhishek Sharma on 16 and Aiden Markram was out on zero.

Reddy took over the innings
After losing three wickets in the powerplay, Nitish Reddy took charge of Hyderabad's disintegrating innings. He made 4 partnerships on the middle order. Reddy added 12 runs with Abhishek Sharma, 25 with Rahul Tripathi, 36 with Clason and 50 with Abdul Samad.

Nitish Reddy and Abdul Samad made a partnership of 50 runs.

Punjab's top order failed
Punjab's top order failed in the run chase. Captain Shikhar Dhawan could score 14, Jonny Bairstow 0 and Prabhsimran Singh could score 4 runs. In the middle, Sikandar Raza took over the innings by making partnerships of 38 runs with Sam Curran and 33 runs with Shashank Singh, but became the victim of Jaydev Unadkat on the first ball of the 14th over.

Shashank-Ashutosh's Fifty Partnership
In the end, Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma made an unbeaten partnership of 66 runs on 27 balls for the 7th wicket, but could not lead their team to victory.

Points Table: No change in positions of teams, only points changed
There has been no change in the positions of the teams in points after this match. Hyderabad is at 5th position with 6 points after winning 3 out of 5 matches, while Punjab remains at 6th position with 2 wins out of 5. Kings have 4 points in their account.

Cap race…

Orange Cap: Kohli on top, Clason came at third place
Virat Kohli is leading in the race for Orange Cap. He has scored 316 runs in 5 matches. Heinrich Klaasen, who scored 9 runs for Hyderabad, has come third in the list of top scorers.

Purple Cap: Arshdeep came third with 4 wickets
CSK's Mustafizur Rahman is leading in the race for Purple Cap. He has taken 8 wickets in 4 matches. Arshdeep Singh, who took 4 wickets for Punjab, has come third in this list. Whereas Kagiso Rabada has joined the top-5 bowlers by taking one wicket.

Playing-11 of both the teams

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shashank Singh, Sikandar Raza, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh.
Impact Player- Prabhsimran Singh.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Shahbaz Ahmed, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan and Mayank Markande.
Impact Player- Jaydev Unadkat.

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