Punjab Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by five wickets in a rain-curtailed encounter at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on Friday. The win meant that PBKS moved to second on the points table with 10 points in seven matches.
In the 14-over-a-side match, RCB were put into bat first and could managed 95/9. Tim David led the charge with a counter-attacking 50 off just 26 balls. However, none of the other RCB batters got going.
In reply, Punjab chased down the target relatively easily, reaching 96 in 12.1 overs. Nehal Wadhera played a crucial knock of 33 off 19 balls. Despite a brilliant spell from Josh Hazlewood, who finished with figures of 3/14, RCB couldn’t stop the Punjab batters from cruising to victory.
After the match, PBKS skipper Shreyas Iyer praised his team’s adaptability and instinctive decision-making under pressure.
Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who was bought by PBKS for Rs 18 crore, had a happy return to the Chinnaswamy stadium, with figures of 2/11 in 3 overs. The experienced campaigner had picked four wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders in Punjab's last match to defend the lowest ever total in IPL. The leg-spinner has now struck form after having struggled in the first five matches, where he leaked more than 10 an over and did not get the wickets he would have liked.
After the match against RCB, captain Shreyas Iyer was all praise of his team.
"As they say variety is the spice of life. We are able to experience all kinds of games over here. It is a great challenge. There was no thinking to be honest. I was making instinctive moves and obviously we were getting wickets. I didn't want the new batsman to come in and settle straightaway. Marco was able to extract little bit of bounce on this wicket. He was bowling lethal. He basically steadied the ship. And the rest of the bowlers they helped him. To be honest, we didn't know how the wicket was going to play and I personally feel the bowlers they adapted according to it," Iyer said after Punjab Kings win.
"When I had a chat with Arshdeep, he said, the hard length balls were very difficult to hit on this wicket because I didn't see a single six off a fats bowler hit down the ground. That was the chatter going around and they were fantastic in executing it. Yes absolutely, you need one batsman to take the charge. Nehal was brilliant in his approach today. The attitude was top notch. I hope he continues the same form," Iyer added.
Talking about Chahal's return to form, Iyer said that he had a personal chat with the bowler and talked to him about the importance of him picking wickets.
"Personally I had a chat with Chahal. I told him you are a match winner and you need to get us wickets as much as possible. You don't need to be safe in your appraoch and he has got the capability of bouncing back. That's what we appreciate of him as a leggie. Probably he is the best bowler in the IPL so far. You to back that all the time. Depends on the wicket (On Punjab providing another thriller)," the Punjab Kings skipper said.
Punjab Kings will next take on RCB again in their reverse fixture on Sunday in Mullanpur.
In the 14-over-a-side match, RCB were put into bat first and could managed 95/9. Tim David led the charge with a counter-attacking 50 off just 26 balls. However, none of the other RCB batters got going.
In reply, Punjab chased down the target relatively easily, reaching 96 in 12.1 overs. Nehal Wadhera played a crucial knock of 33 off 19 balls. Despite a brilliant spell from Josh Hazlewood, who finished with figures of 3/14, RCB couldn’t stop the Punjab batters from cruising to victory.
After the match, PBKS skipper Shreyas Iyer praised his team’s adaptability and instinctive decision-making under pressure.
Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who was bought by PBKS for Rs 18 crore, had a happy return to the Chinnaswamy stadium, with figures of 2/11 in 3 overs. The experienced campaigner had picked four wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders in Punjab's last match to defend the lowest ever total in IPL. The leg-spinner has now struck form after having struggled in the first five matches, where he leaked more than 10 an over and did not get the wickets he would have liked.
After the match against RCB, captain Shreyas Iyer was all praise of his team.
"As they say variety is the spice of life. We are able to experience all kinds of games over here. It is a great challenge. There was no thinking to be honest. I was making instinctive moves and obviously we were getting wickets. I didn't want the new batsman to come in and settle straightaway. Marco was able to extract little bit of bounce on this wicket. He was bowling lethal. He basically steadied the ship. And the rest of the bowlers they helped him. To be honest, we didn't know how the wicket was going to play and I personally feel the bowlers they adapted according to it," Iyer said after Punjab Kings win.
"When I had a chat with Arshdeep, he said, the hard length balls were very difficult to hit on this wicket because I didn't see a single six off a fats bowler hit down the ground. That was the chatter going around and they were fantastic in executing it. Yes absolutely, you need one batsman to take the charge. Nehal was brilliant in his approach today. The attitude was top notch. I hope he continues the same form," Iyer added.
Talking about Chahal's return to form, Iyer said that he had a personal chat with the bowler and talked to him about the importance of him picking wickets.
"Personally I had a chat with Chahal. I told him you are a match winner and you need to get us wickets as much as possible. You don't need to be safe in your appraoch and he has got the capability of bouncing back. That's what we appreciate of him as a leggie. Probably he is the best bowler in the IPL so far. You to back that all the time. Depends on the wicket (On Punjab providing another thriller)," the Punjab Kings skipper said.
Punjab Kings will next take on RCB again in their reverse fixture on Sunday in Mullanpur.
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