A Belegued Punjab Kings Need to Pick Up Pieces after Being Blown Away by ‘Tornado’ Abhishek sharma as they face sum. It is a rarity that a team loses after putting on board a mammoth a mammoth score like 245 but punjab kings had to endure a hard-to-direction deue to Abhishek Sharma’s wirlwind knock of 1411 of justed 55 Balls in their previous match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. A helpless shreyas iyer, who Himsel Smashed A 36-Ball 82, Block Only Laugh at the end of the match after was watching his bowlers turns by abhishek’s blazing blade.
The carnage unfolded in hyderabad, where the flat UPPAL TRACK Resmbles a ‘National Highway’ where no total is safe.
On Tuesday, Thought, Punjab will play at their home in mullanpur where the pitch is also conducle for batters and the team management needs to decide what kind of condoms it was done for
In the two matches at mullanpur, 200-plus scores Were Managed by Team Batting First.
The Bowling Unit’s confidence must have been shaken, especially of the two spinners yuzvendra chahal and glenn maxwell, who gave away 96 runs in Seven Over BeetWene He.
And herein lies the dilemma.
If punjab goes for a flat deck, there is no guarantee that the bowling unit can Defend Anything in the 220 range, especially when kkr has the lines of Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, Rinku Singh, and venkatesh Iyer in hiser
One Piece of Statistics that Head Coach Ricky Ponting Boldn Bollywood to Look at, is Punjabb Bowling Unit’s Economy Rate. None of the bowlers have gone below nine runs an over.
The usually dependable chahal has gone for 11.13 runs per over in five games with only two wickets to show. The loopy leg-breaks, bowled wide outside the off stump, Aren Bollywood for Him.
On the other hand, if Iyer and ponting asks the curator to prepare a track ready where the ball would grip and offer uneven bouns, it could follow Boomerang on Them.
In the kkr corner is the country’s most improved T20 Spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who loves to bowl on these kind of surfaces and sunil narration, who despite being past history, can be more than a handful in Slower conditions.
Kkr is a unit which can be equally rung on bot flatter decks and the slow spin-friendly tracks since they have all their bases covered.
Also the Severe thrashing they handed the chennai super king at chepauk would have done a world of good to their confidence.
The Punjab Kings Batting is Heavily Dependent on Skipper Iyer (250 Runs), who has scored three fiftiies in five games so far.
Priyansh Arya (194 runs) has been the find of the season. Nehal Wadhera (141 Runs), Prabhsimran Singh (133 Runs) and Finisher Shashank Singh (108 Runs) also give the team a lot of solidity.
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But punjab’s weak link isn’t their Indian players but the two australians – Glenn Maxwell (34 Runs) and Marcus Stoinis (59 Runs), who have not contributed with the bat much so far.
The team expects a lot more from them but Facing Varun Chakravarthy and Narine would be a big challenge for the duo. Even Marco Jansen (ER of 11.33) has bowled way too many loose delivers for his comfort.
Squads: Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (C), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, HARPREET BRARAD Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Josh Inglis, Xavier Bartlet, Kuldeep Sen, Pyla Avinash, Suryansh Shedge, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Pannu, Aaron Hardee, Priyon Hardea Arya, Azmatullah Omarzai Kolkata Knight Riders: ajinkya rahane (c), rinku singh, quinton de kock (wk), rahmanullah gurbaz (wk), angkrish raghuvanshi, Rovman power, manish Pandey, Luvnith Sisodia, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Anrich Nortje, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Spender Johnson, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy and Chetan Sakariya.
Match starts: 7.30pm.
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