Rajasthan Royals beat Punjab Kings by just 2 runs in the 32nd match of the IPL.
The 32nd Match of the Indian Premier League 2021 was played yesterday between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai, in which Rajasthan Royals beat Punjab Kings by just 2 runs.
Punjab Kings won the toss and the invited Rajasthan Royals to bat first, Rajasthan Royals batted first the entire team all out in 185 runs in the last ball of the inning, Rajasthan Royals started the inning very brilliantly, Evin Lewis and Yashasvi Jaiswal came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with half-century partnership of 54 runs, the first wicket has gone for 54 runs, Evin Lewis dismissed after scoring 36 runs in 21 balls, next batsman Sanju Samson came to bat, but he dismissed very quickly just for 4 runs as the second wicket, followed by Liam Livingstone came to bat, handled the inning and played a brilliant partnership of 48 runs with Yashasvi Jaiswal, the third wicket has gone for 116 runs, Liam Livingstone was dismissed after scoring 25 runs in 17 balls, next batsman Mahipal Lomror came to bat, and played well with Yashasvi Jaiswal, the fourth wicket has gone in 136 runs, Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 49 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 6 boundaries in just 36 balls, next batsman Riyan Parag came to bat, and he good strike rotate with Mahipal Lomror, the fifth wicket has gone for 166 runs, Riyan Parag dismissed just for 4 runs, followed by Rahul Tewatia came to bat, meanwhile the sixth wicket has also gone in 169 runs, Mahipal Lomror dismissed after playing a brilliant quick inning of 43 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 2 boundaries in just 17 balls after that remaining 4 wickets has gone very quickly, Rahul Tewatia dismissed just for 2 runs, Chris Morris 5 runs, Chetan Sakariya 7 runs, Kartik Tyagi 1 run, Mustafizur Rahman remains unbeaten without playing any balls. In this way, Rajasthan Royals batted first after losing the toss, the entire team dismissed the last ball of the inning in the score of 185 runs and set a target of 186 runs in front of Punjab Kings.
Punjab Kings bowlers Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Shamiperformed very brilliantly, Arshdeep Singh took 5 wickets just for 32 runs, and Mohammed Shami took 3 wickets just for 21 runs, Ishan Porel and Harpreet Brar also got 1-1 wicket.
Punjab Kings chasing 186 runs in the second inning, they could manage just 183 runs and lost the match by just 2 runs. Punjab Kings also start the inning very brilliantly, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal came to start the inning, and gave a brilliant start with century partnership of 120 runs, the first wicket has gone for 120 runs, KL Rahul dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 49 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 33 balls, next batsman Aiden Markram came to bat, after few moments the second wicket has also gone in 126 runs, Mayank Agarwal dismissed after playing a brilliant quick half-century inning of 67 runs wicket the help of 2 sixes and 7 boundaries in just 43 balls, followed by Nicholas Pooran came to bat, handled the inning and played a brilliant half-century partnership of 58 runs with Aiden Markram, the third wicket has gone in 183 runs, Nicholas Pooran dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 32 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 1 boundary in just 22 balls, followed by Deepak Hooda came to bat, and he dismissed without scoring as fourth wicket in score of 183 runs, next batsman Fabian Allen came to bat, and he remains unbeaten without scoring with Aiden Markram, and Aiden Markram played an unbeaten inning of 26 runs in 20 balls, but unfortunately they can't achieved the target just for 2 runs, and lost the very close match by 2 runs.
Rajasthan Royals bowlers Kartik Tyagi took 2 wickets, Chetan Sakariya and Rahul Tewatia got 1-1 wicket.
Rajasthan Royals bowler Kartik Tyagi was selected as Best Player of the Match, he performed very brilliantly balling in the last over, on that time Punjab Kings needs 4 runs to win the match, but he gave just 1 run and 2 wickets in the last over of the inning to win the match by 2 runs.
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