Curran leads punjab to victory, difficult for rajasthan to reach top-2

IPL 2024 RR vs PBKS Highlights: sam Curran leads punjab to victory, difficult for rajasthan to reach top-2

IPL 2024 rajasthan vs punjab Highlights: punjab Kings defeated rajasthan Royals by 5 wickets in Guwahati. punjab won due to the excellent all-round performance of sam Curran. Due to fourth consecutive defeat, it became difficult for rajasthan to reach top-2.

Due to the excellent all-round performance of captain sam Curran, punjab Kings (PBKS) defeated rajasthan Royals by 5 wickets. rajasthan had set a target of 144 runs in the 65th match of IPL 2024 played at Barsapara cricket Stadium in Guwahati. Which punjab achieved by losing 5 wickets with 7 balls remaining. The hero of PBKS's victory was sam Curran, who apart from taking 2 wickets, also played an unbeaten half-century.

Sam Curran shows his magic

After winning the toss and opting to bat first, sam Curran gave a big blow to rajasthan in the first over itself. He showed explosive opener yashasvi jaiswal the way to the pavilion. In the middle overs, karan derailed Rajasthan's train by dismissing dhruv Jurel for a golden duck. Thanks to local boy Riyan Parag's inning of 48 runs, somehow rajasthan team was able to reach 144 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. karan also did excellent captaincy. He made changes in bowling at regular intervals and handed the ball to the right bowler at the right time. Due to which rajasthan failed to score a strong score.

Team captain Sanju Samson, who was in great form, could score only 18 runs in 15 balls. R Ashwin, sent at number five, contributed 28 runs. He hit 3 fours and a six in his 19-ball innings. Apart from karan, Harshal patel and rahul Chahar also took 2-2 wickets from punjab side.

The captain set sail

Chasing a small target, punjab lost the wicket of Prabhsimran Singh in the very first over. He was led by Trent Boult. Riley Russo tried to recover punjab from the initial shock by batting aggressively, but he too was out in the powerplay. His wicket was taken by Avesh Khan. Russo scored 22 runs in 13 balls with the help of 5 fours. Avesh turned the match towards rajasthan by dismissing in-form shashank Singh LBW after just one ball. Jonny Bairstow was out on the score of 48 after playing a slow innings of 14 runs in 22 balls.

It seemed that punjab Kings would disappoint once again. But sam Curran won the match with Jitesh Sharma by making a partnership of 63 runs for the fifth wicket. Jitesh was out on the score of 111 after scoring 22 runs in 20 balls. He hit 2 sixes. From here, karan along with Ashutosh Sharma took punjab to the target easily. karan played an amazing inning of 63 unbeaten runs in 41 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. Ashutosh returned unbeaten after scoring 17 runs in 11 balls.