Kolkata lost with a crore rupee player...!? Punjab won!

Sowmiya Sriram
Kolkata lost with a crore rupee player...!? punjab won!
IPL 2023 PBKS vs KKR: punjab Kings won the league match against kolkata Knight Riders and Duckworth Lewis by 7 runs. The 16th season of IPL got off to a grand start yesterday. In the first match, by 5 wickets, gujarat defeated CSK team. Following this, in the second league match, punjab Kings data-faced Kolkata. Accordingly, Prabsimran Singh and shikhar dhawan were the openers for the punjab team who batted first. In that, Prabsimran Singh was dismissed for 23 (12) runs. Skipper shikhar dhawan was dismissed for 40 (29). Next came Banuka Rajapaksa who scored 50 runs in 32 balls with 2 sixes and 5 fours. In the last phase Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, sam Karan, and shahrukh khan also scored runs to score 191 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. tim southee took 2 wickets and Umesh Yadav, sunil Narine, and varun Chakraborty took 1 wicket each. Following this, punjab Kings replaced Banuka Rajapaksa as an impact player and brought in Rishi Dhawan. The kolkata side sent out varun Chakraborty and brought in venkatesh Iyer in the playing eleven.
After that, the batting team of kolkata did not get off to a good start. Mandeep Singh, Gurbaz, and Anukul Roy left one after the other. Later, impact player venkatesh Iyer formed a good partnership with Nitish Rana. Nitish was dismissed for 24 runs after forming a partnership of 46 runs. Also, Ringu Singh was out after 4 runs.
Sam Curran separated the pair of venkatesh Iyer-Russell who were on the attack for a while. venkatesh Iyer was dismissed for 34 off 28 balls. Next Russell scored 35 runs off 19 balls and was bowled by Arshdeep Singh. Subsequently, at one stage when kolkata scored 146 runs in 16 overs, the rain stopped. shardul thakur scored 8 runs and sunil Narine scored 7 runs. As the rain continued, the target was set at 154 runs. As a result, the punjab team was declared victorious by 7 runs.
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