Punjab Kings 145 for 2 (Dhawan 62*, Rajapaksa 40) beat Gujarat Titans 143 for 8 (Sudharsan 65*, Rabada 4-33) by eight wickes
A stifling bowling show, led by Kagiso Rabada‘s four-for and penurious figures of 4-0-17-0 from Sandeep Sharma, restricted table-toppers Gujarat Titans to a below-par 143 and revived Punjab Kings’ campaign for the playoffs race.
Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa and Liam Livingstone made short work of the chase which they sealed with as many as four overs to spare, and lifted Kings from eighth to fifth spot on the table. More importantly, their net run rate was boosted from -0.470 to -0.229.
Titans experimented with the decision of opting to bat but could not stitch any substantial partnerships with regular fall of wickets. It was Sai Sudharsan’s maiden fifty that steered them from 67 for 4 in the 12th over towards 150, but like captain Hardik Pandya said later, “obviously we were not even close to par”.
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Source: ESPN Crickinfo