Dhawan's double batting at home, Punjab could not win despite putting pressure on Hyderabad

Punjab did not win even after pressuring Hyderabad under the power of Arshdeep. Dhawan had to lose at home due to batting failure. Hyderabad has 6 points in five matches. Four points from the same number of matches for Punjab.

Punjab Kings could not win despite putting pressure on Sunrisers Hyderabad at home. Batting first, Pat Cummins’ team scored 182 runs for 9 wickets. In reply, Shikhar Dhawan’s team ended their innings at 180 for 6. Punjab batting twice on this day. Punjab’s batsmen remained uncomfortable throughout the entire innings in front of the controlled bowling of Cummins and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. But the fight was fierce until the last ball. Punjab lost by 2 runs.

Punjab captain Dhawan won the toss and decided to field at home. Hyderabad could not use the opportunity to bat first in front of Arshdeep Singh’s bowling. However, thanks to Nitish Reddy’s innings of 64 runs, Cummins reached a place to fight. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma did not start the innings badly for Hyderabad. Although no opener got big runs.

Head scored 21 runs off 15 balls. Hit 4 fours. 16 off 11 balls from Abhishek’s bat. Hit 2 fours and 1 six. Aden Markram (0) at number three did not get a run. Batters like Rahul Tripathi (11), Henrik Klaasen (9) also failed in Mohali’s 22 yards. Nitish, who dropped to number four, pulled the team’s innings after losing consecutive wickets.

His innings essentially put Cummins in contention. Abdul Samad gave him some support. His 25-run innings came from 12 balls. Samad hit 5 fours. Nitish played an important innings of 64 runs off 37 balls. The 20-year-old batting all-rounder completed his innings with 4 fours and 5 sixes. Their pair scored 50 runs.

Cummins (3) did not get a run in the next over. In the end Shahbaz Ahmed of Bengal played an unbeaten innings of 14 runs off 7 balls. He hit a four and a six each. Bhuvneshwar scored 6 runs off 8 balls. Jaydev Unadkat remained unbeaten with 6 runs off 1 ball. Arshdeep, the most successful bowler of Punjab, took 4 wickets for 29 runs. On this day, the Hyderabad batsmen had trouble handling the ball of the left-handed bowler. Apart from this, Harshal Patel took 2 wickets with 30 runs. 2 wickets for 41 runs by Sam Curren.

In response, Punjab faced a batting disaster. They lost 3 wickets for 20 runs. Dhawan (14), Jonny Bairstow (nil), Pravsimran Singhera (4) returned in quick succession. Bairstow is dismissed by Cummins. The other two are Bhubaneswar. Karen tried to bring the team back into the fight but could not score big runs. He scored 29 off 22 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes. After this, Sikandar Raja and Shashank Singh tried to take control of the team’s innings.

They also did not succeed. Raja made 28 off 22 balls. Hit 2 fours and a six each before being dismissed by Unadkat. Jitesh Sharma also tried a little. He scored 19 runs off 11 balls with 1 four and a six. Shashank’s unbeaten innings of 46 runs off 25 balls. He hit 6 fours, 1 six. Ashutosh Sharma remained unbeaten on 33 off 15 balls. He hit 3 fours and 2 sixes.

Apart from Cummins, Bhuvneshwar, T Natarajan, Unadkat also bowled well. Nitish also took a wicket. Bhuvneshwar took 2 wickets for 32 runs. The Hyderabad captain took 1 wicket with 22 runs. Natarajan took 1 wicket for 33 runs. Nitish also took 1 wicket with 33 runs. Unadkat took 1 wicket for 56 runs.