Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings 1st Innings Highlights: In Mullanpur, Punjab Kings washed the bowlers of Chennai Super Kings fiercely. For Punjab, young Priyansh Arya played an explosive innings of 103 runs in 42 balls. 7 fours and 9 sixes came out of his bat. Shashank Singh returned unbeaten for 52 off 36 balls and Marco Yansen for 34 runs in 19 balls. Both shared 65 runs in 38 balls for the seventh wicket. Due to these three, Punjab Kings scored 219 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs.
Interestingly, all the veterans of Punjab Kings were flops. Nevertheless, the team scored more than 200. Prabhasimran Singh (00), captain Shreyas Iyer (09), Glenn Maxwell (01), Marcus Stoinis (04) and Nehal Vadhera (09) also did not reach the double digit.
After winning the toss, Punjab Kings started to bat first. Explosive opener Prabhasimran Singh was dismissed without opening the account. Mukesh Chaudhary sent him to the pavilion. Then captain Shreyas Iyer was bowled by Khalil Ahmed. He could only score 9 runs.
When two wickets fell for 32 runs, everyone’s eyes were on Marcus Stoinis, but he also disappointed. Stoinis kept on scoring four runs. Nehal Vadhera was dismissed for 9 runs. Now there were expectations from Glenn Maxwell. But Maxwell flopped again.
On one hand, wickets were falling continuously, on the other side, 24-year-old Priyansh Arya was dealing with fours and sixes. He completed a century in 38 balls. He has become the eighth unaccounted batsman to score a century in the IPL. Priyansh Arya played an explosive innings of 103 runs in 42 balls. 7 fours and 9 sixes came out of his bat.
Shashank Singh also played shots around the field. He returned unbeaten after scoring 52 runs in 36 balls. 2 fours and 3 sixes came out of his bat. At the same time, Marco Yansen also washed the bowlers of Chennai. He returned unbeaten for 34 runs in 19 balls. 2 fours and two sixes came out of his bat.
For Chennai, Khalil Ahmed took two wickets for 45 runs in four overs. At the same time, Ravichandran Ashwin took two wickets for 48 runs in 4 overs. Mathisha Pathirana took 52 runs without taking any wickets.
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