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Punjab Kings players celebrate victory against Royal Challengers Bangalore. (BCCI/IPL Photo)
Left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar s first outing in the 2021 IPL turned out to be a fairytale. His brisk cameo with the bat backed by the triple strikes with the ball helped Punjab Kings record a morale boosting 34-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in Ahmedabad on Friday.
Not to forget skipper KL Rahul, who earlier led from the front with a classy 91 to propel Punjab to a challenging 179 for 5 after being put in to bat at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
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But it was one of those few evenings when everything Harpreet touched, turned into gold. Brar broke the backbone of the Royal Challengers Bangalore batting with the prized scalps of Virat Kohli (35), Glenn Maxwell (0) and AB de Villiers (3), to spearhead Punjab s recovery. Brar was ably supported by leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi, who nearly clinched a hat-trick before returning figures of 2/17.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore s Australian batsman Glenn Maxwell (Photo: PTI/BCCI/IPL)
AHMEDABAD: Star Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell says that he, along with other cricketers of his country, wouldn t mind being on the same chartered flight that would take India, New Zealand and England players to the United Kingdom after the IPL.
A senior BCCI official agreed that the option could be explored looking at the international travel guidelines during the last week of May as all commercial flights from India to Australia are banned at the moment due to sky-rocketing cases of Covid-19 here. We just want to find a way to go home. The BCCI, both governments can work a solution. If we have to wait a bit longer, so be it; but there is a way to get home at some stage, Maxwell told The Final Word Podcast conducted by journalists Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
CSK openers Faf du Plessis, left, and Ruturaj Gaikwad stitched a 129-run opening partnership (ANI Photo)
A common factor in Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) victories in IPL-14 has been the performance of their openers Faf du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad. The duo took a few games to make an impact but once they found their mojo, the pair has been unstoppable.
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Against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Delhi on Wednesday, du Plessis (56, 6x4, 1x6) and Gaikwad’s (75, 12x4) 129-run opening wicket stand saw the side cruise to a seven-wicket victory in 18.3 overs chasing 172 to win.
The start of the Delhi leg of the tournament hasn’t altered the fortunes of the two sides. While CSK notched up their fifth win in a row to regain the top position in the points table with 10 points, SRH continued to languish at the bottom with just 2 points from 6 outings.