Kathikutty punjab Kings beat KKR - record after record!

In the 42nd match of the league against kolkata Knight Riders, punjab Kings scored 262 runs and won by 8 wickets.The 42nd match of IPL 2024 between punjab Kings and kolkata Knight Riders was played at Eden Gardens. In this, punjab captain sam Karan won the toss and chose to bowl. Accordingly, both sunil Narine and Philip salt in the kolkata team came into the field and scored runs.

KKR vs PBKS 42nd IPL 2024 Match

The pair put on 138 runs for the first wicket. sunil Narine, who played aggressively, scored 71 runs in 32 balls including 9 fours and 4 sixes. After Narine, Philip salt was dismissed after scoring 75 runs off 37 balls, hitting 6 fours and 6 sixes.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs punjab Kings, 42nd Match

Following him, venkatesh Iyer was dismissed for 39 runs and Andre Russell for 24 runs. Captain shreyas iyer was out for 24 runs. Ringu Singh, who came last, was dismissed for 5 runs and Ramandeep Singh for 6 runs.

KKR vs PBKS 42nd IPL 2024 Match

Finally, kolkata Knight Riders scored 261 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. As far as the bowling is concerned, Arshdeep Singh took 2 wickets and Harshal Patel, sam Karan and rahul Chahar took one wicket each in the punjab Kings team.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs punjab Kings, 42nd Match

KKR scored more than 250 runs for the 2nd time in this match. Earlier in the match against delhi Capitals, they scored 272/7. Also, after hitting 18 sixes against delhi Capitals, KKR also hit 18 sixes in the match against punjab Kings.

KKR vs PBKS 42nd IPL 2024 Match

Chasing a tough target, punjab Kings set a new record by beating kolkata by 8 wickets while everyone was wondering how they could achieve such a huge score.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs punjab Kings, 42nd Match

Prabsimran Singh and Jonny Bairstow were both openers. They started the action right from the start. punjab Kings crossed 50 runs in 3.3 overs. In this, only Prabsimran Singh played aggressively and scored a fifty off 18 balls. Prabsimran, who was playing aggressively, hit 4 fours and 5 sixes in 20 balls and was run out. At that time punjab Kings had scored 93 runs in 6 overs. Riley Rossow was the next to score 26 runs.

KKR vs PBKS 42nd IPL 2024 Match

After that shashank Singh stepped in. With shashank Singh and Jonny Bairstow both hitting sixes and fours, the kolkata bowlers were at a loss as to what to do. In the first 10 overs, punjab Kings scored 132 runs for the loss of one wicket.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs punjab Kings, 42nd Match

Prior to this, punjab Kings scored 131 runs in 10 overs for the loss of 3 wickets in 2014. This was the highest score for punjab Kings. After that, they scored 201 runs in 15 overs. punjab needed 61 runs to win in the last 5 overs.

KKR vs PBKS 42nd IPL 2024 Match

After scoring 17 runs in the next over, punjab Kings scored 25 runs including 3 sixes and a four in the 18th over. punjab played to win if they score 9 runs off the last 12 balls.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs punjab Kings, 42nd Match

But, after scoring 9 runs off the next 4 balls, punjab Kings scored 262/2 in 18.4 overs and won by 8 wickets. Is it through this success?