IPL 2024: RR recorded its fourth consecutive defeat, Sam Curran played the captaincy innings for PBKS.


Sam Curran played an unbeaten inning of 63 runs with the help of five fours and three sixes in 41 balls against Rajasthan Royals.

Sam Curran (Pic Source-X)

Today i.e. on 15th May, in an important match of the Indian Premier League 2024, Punjab Kings defeated Rajasthan Royals by five wickets. In this match, all the players from Punjab Kings performed very well and played an important role in the victory of their team. Rajasthan Royals players failed to show good performance.

Batting first, Rajasthan Royals scored 144 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Rajasthan did not have such a good start in this match and they lost three important wickets for 42 runs within 8 overs. Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to bat well against Punjab and was out after scoring four runs. Tom Kohler-Cadmore played a slow inning of 18 runs against Punjab while captain Sanju Samson was also out after scoring 18 runs.

However, Riyan Parag batted very well for Rajasthan Royals and scored 48 runs in 34 balls with the help of 6 fours. It was because of this batting of Riyan Parag that Rajasthan Royals were able to reach a respectable score against Punjabi. Apart from Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin made an important contribution of 18 runs. Trent Boult scored 12 runs.

For Punjab Kings, Harshal Patel took two wickets for 28 runs in four overs while Rahul Chahar took 2 wickets for 26 runs in four overs. Captain Sam Curran also took two wickets. Nathan Ellis and Arshdeep Singh took one wicket each.

Sam Curran played captaincy innings

While chasing the target, the score of Punjab Kings at one time was 4 wickets for 48 runs in 8 overs. The team’s top order completely failed in this match. However, after taking four wickets early, captain Sam Curran batted brilliantly and scored a match-winning half-century for his team. Sam Curran played an unbeaten inning of 63 runs with the help of five fours and three sixes in 41 balls against Rajasthan Royals.

He did not spare any bowler of Rajasthan Royals and hit hard against all of them. Jitesh Sharma contributed 22 runs while Rilee Rousseau also scored 22 runs. For Rajasthan Royals, Avesh Khan and Yuzvendra Chahal took 2-2 wickets while Trent Boult took 1 wicket. Punjab Kings achieved the target of 145 runs within 19 overs.



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