PBKS stand-in captain Sam Curran marvelled on the hitting capability of batters in IPL 2024, remarking that cricket has become baseball — a sport wherein house runs are a norm. Curran’s feedback got here after a complete of 532 runs had been scored and a report tally of 42 sixes had been hit within the IPL 2024 match between PBKS and KKR in Kolkata. The visiting crew chased down a mammoth whole of 262 to script the highest-successful chase within the historical past of T20 cricket.
Punjab ended a 4-match dropping streak and so they did so, in type, chasing down 262 in simply 18.3 overs. Jonny Bairstow, who was struggling for kind within the first half of the season, hit 108 off simply 48 balls, his second IPL century. Prabhsimran Singh, who got here in as Influence Participant, set the tone for the chase with a ruthless assault on KKR’s new-ball bowlers, smashing 5 sixes and 4 boundaries for his 20-ball 54. Shashank Singh, ‘the discover of the season’, hammered 68 from simply 28 balls as PBKS made gentle work of the Himalayan goal.
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“Very pleasing. Most significantly the win, cricket has turned to baseball, is not it? We’re delighted with the 2 factors. We had a troublesome few weeks as a crew. Neglect concerning the scores, we deserved this victory,” Sam Curran stated.
Curran was delighted for Jonny Bairstow, who struggled for kind within the first half of the IPL 2024 season with 96 runs within the first 6 matches. The stand-in captain additionally heaped reward on Shashank for his constant present with the bat for PBKS.
“Actually happy for Jonny, he is been on tour for a very long time and was keen to attain. Shashank, wow, he was promoted to No. 4 and he is been our discover of the season,” Curran stated.
CURRAN ON BATTING DOMINANCE
KKR’s heroic batting present went in useless as their bowlers struggled to defend a 200-plus whole for the third successive time. Sunil Narine, who stormed to the 2nd spot within the Orange Cap standings, hit a 32-ball 71 whereas Phil Salt continued his good run, smashing 75 off 38 earlier than Venkatesh Iyer (38 off 23) and Shreyas Iyer (29 off 10) got here up with late cameos to elevate KKR to their second-highest whole in IPL.
IPL 2024 has been a six-hitting fest. As many as 7 totals over 260 have been scored within the present season. Solely as soon as — 263 by RCB vs Pune Warriors India in 2013 — was it completed between the inaugural version in 2008 and 2023.
Making an attempt to clarify the explanation behind the mad batting present by groups in IPL 2024, Sam Curran stated there are a selection of contributing elements.
“A great deal of various things, guys can hit balls for lengthy durations of time, the coaches, coaching, the dew, dot balls grow to be vast after evaluations and also you get the additional ball. Stats are going of the window. For us,” he stated.
