Punjab refused to recover after being reduced to 48/4, how sad that Rajasthan's dream of qualifying went in vain?

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Tezzbuzz|25-05-2024

Live Hindi News :- The 65th league match of the IPL 2024 T20 cricket series was held at Kelahathi on 15 May at 7.30 pm. Rajasthan won the toss against Punjab and declared to bat first. After this, Jaiswal was out for 4 runs and captain Sanju Samson, who came after him, was also out for 18 runs.

Kolar-Gadmore faltered on the other side in the next few overs and was dismissed for 18.

As Rajasthan faltered at 42/3, Ravichandran Ashwin, who showed action on the opposite side, scored 28 (19) while Ryan Barrack played as the anchor. But Dhruv Jurel 0, Rovman Powell 4 and Perera 7 were dismissed to give the shock.

Rajasthan is faltering: In the end, thanks to Ryan Barrack's 48 (34) and Trent Boult's 12 (9), Rajasthan scored 144/9 in 20 overs. Rahul Sahar, captain Sam Curran and Harshal Patel took 2-2 wickets for Punjab. Chasing 145 runs, Punjab's team was disappointed by Prabsimran Singh getting out for 6 runs. The next batsman Rilee Rossouw tried to play aggressively and got out for 22 (13).

Sasang Singh, who was then expected to perform brilliantly, missed and disappointed the fans. Jonny Bairstow was dismissed for 14 (22) after he stumbled in the opposite direction of the stumps and Punjab faltered early at 48/4. But captain Sam Curran, who came on the field at that time, showed patience and action. Jitesh Sharma was dismissed for 22 (20) when he tried to counter him.

But as time passed, Sam Curran played aggressively and scored 63* (41) runs with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. Along with him, Ashutosh Sharma scored 17* (11) runs and Punjab scored 145/5 runs in 18.5 overs and won by 5 wickets.

So from Rajasthan's side, Sahal and Avesh Khan took the maximum 2-2 wickets and could not avoid defeat.

Punjab, which was already out of the league round, won this match easily. On the other hand, Rajasthan, which has already qualified for the play-off round, has lost its last 4 matches. In such a situation, if the Hyderabad team wins its last 2 matches, then it has a chance to reach the second position in the points table.

But Rajasthan's run rate is less (+0.273) than Hyderabad (+0.406) which lost to Punjab.

So even if Rajasthan wins the last match, it is doubtful whether Rajasthan will qualify for Qualifier 1 by taking the top 2 position.

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